Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Guest Speaker: Kim Cheater, Adelaide Managing Partner for PwC

CityPulse Adelaide - Setting sail into future prosperity

Kim Cheater is the Adelaide Managing Partner for PwC.  During his time at PwC, Kim has led the Risk, Governance, Internal Audit, IT Consulting and Cyber Security businesses, along with the firm’s Government Sector and Financial Services practice areas.  In July 2016 Kim was appointed as the Adelaide market’s Managing Partner and to PwC’s 2020 Leadership Team.

Kim will share details from CityPulse Adelaide, revealing that our City's liveability and accessibility are its defining characteristics.  He will also discuss opportunities to make a better future for the state and the challenges they entail.

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Guest Speaker: Jo Stewart-Rattray,  Director of Information security and IT assurance at BRM Holdich

Dream Big and Believe - the story a seven year old girl from the Australian bush who had a dream of going to the UN and making a difference for other girls.

Jo has over 25 years’ experience in the IT field some of which were spent as CIO in the Utilities and as Group CIO in the Tourism spaces, and with significant experience in the Information Security arena.  She underpins her information technology and security background with her qualifications in education and management.  She specialises in consulting in technology issues with a particular emphasis on governance in both the commercial and operational areas of businesses.  Jo provides strategic advice to organisations across a number of industry sectors including banking and finance, utilities, manufacturing, tertiary education, retail and government.  

Venue is the Cathedral Room

Guest Speaker: Don Hopgood, Retired Musician

Dancing with the Yanks and his work with the SA Jazz Archive

Eighty year old Don Hopgood is retired.  In fact he has retired three times which makes him a pretty retiring sort of bloke.  He was in turn a school-teacher and university tutor, a member of the House of Assembly of the S.A Parliament from 1970 to 1993 with seven years as Deputy Premier, and served a term as Moderator of the Uniting Church.  He now describes himself as an “unemployed musician”. His talk arises out of his volunteer work for the South Australian Jazz Archive and relates to an interesting episode in Adelaide during World War Two.  He has labelled it “Dancing with the Yanks”.

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Guest Speakers: Rotarians Geoff Millar and Jo McLaren

Travel and Adventure in Iceland and the STANS

Education consultant Geoff Millar is passionate about many things and top of the list is learning. His career saw him take on many leadership roles in schools in SA and interstate, and as a successful educational consultant working with a British company in the Middle East and Pakistan.  Recently he spent three weeks in Iceland in undertaking a six day, 100 km trek before taking off on a 4WD adventure.  In his presentation, he hopes to convey his excitement about this extraordinary and remote country.

Jo McLaren, from RCA Travel Partner and Sponsor Phil Hoffmann Travel, has just returned from travelling from east to west through the Five Stans in central Asia.  For more than 2000 years Central Asia has been the focus of the ancient east-west trade route known as the Silk Road, and the Five Stans take in the extraordinary countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.  Join her on a journey through The Five Stans, Central Asia and the golden road to Samarkand

Please note 12 noon for 12:30 pm start at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Charitable Trust Fund 50th Anniversary Lunch with

Guest Speaker: Derrick McManus, Founder of the Australian Centre for Human Durability

Human Durability - going beyond resilience to sustaining optimum performance

Derrick is in research collaboration with the UniSA School of Psychology and is taking the concept of resilience to the next level under the title of Human Durability.  Durability is something we look for in new technology, cars, phones, watches, bridges, buildings etc.  It is certainly what we have wanted for the Rotary Charitable Trust Fund too.  However, it’s amazing what can be achieved when durability is applied to individuals, leaders and organisations. 

A fun night starting with pre-dinner drinks and canapes and a preview of the Australia v India Test Match by former Australian Test fast bowler Jason Gillespie.

Dinner in the iconic Dining Room, featuring special guest speaker, Harsha Bhogle (renowned Indian cricket commentator)

Seating at tables for 12 people

Table Captains and Group Leaders booking only (password required)

Registration closes Dec 3 6pm

This week's lunch meeting is held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Hill of Grace Restaurant, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd. North Adelaide.

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Additional $10 charge to cover the cost of wine provided

Guest Speaker: Andrew Hardy, Winemaker, Parker Coonawarra Estate

Andrew - a fifth generation Hardy - has a serious wine pedigree.  His great great grandfather Thomas Hardy was known as the 'Father of the South Australian Wine Industry' after being an integral part of SA's entry into the wine world in the late 1800s.

In October 2018 Andrew joined James Lienert and Keeda Zilm to complete the Parker Coonawarra Estate winemaking team, bringing with him over 36 years of invaluable experience and knowledge.

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Guest Speaker: Michelle Hocking, General Manager, Royal Adelaide Show

The Royal Show

With over 20 years of experience as a senior business and marketing professional, Michelle has worked in both the public and private sector and is currently General Manager, Royal Adelaide Show and Wine Show. She spent many years in State Government as General Manager Regional Marketing with the South Australian Tourism Commission, overseeing twelve tourism regions and working closely with regional stakeholders including industry operators, local government and numerous state government agencies.

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Guest Speaker: Kate Russell

Trust is a self fulfilling prophecy

Kate Russell is a coach and trainer who helps leaders create conflict resilient teams and take their teams from good to great.  She is an accredited mediator (Resolution Institute) and trained conflict management coach (CINERGY ™) with over twenty-five years’ experience working with people and teams dealing with conflict.  Kate believes that prevention is better than cure.  If we look after our team, appreciate and trust them, and provide a safe working environment, then we will reap the rewards.  Kate is able to help more leaders in professional services firms and their teams thrive by providing on-line training and coaching.  Kate has created a number of training tools which provide leaders with a step by step process to build greater engagement and connection within their teams.  She also runs on-line small coaching groups in a safe, confidential environment so that your questions get answered by her and you

This week's lunch meeting is held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Premiership Suite, Level 3, Southern Grandstand, War Memorial Drive North Adelaide.

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Guest Speaker: Jane Lomax-Smith

Remembrance Day - Centenary of Armistice

"Dernancourt Remembers, but Adelaide Forgets"

Jane, as a clinical pathologist, has worked in London, Boston and Adelaide. In Adelaide, she has been elected three times as a councillor, twice as Lord Mayor, twice as a state MP and was the Minister of Education and Tourism in the Rann government. She became aware of the relationship between Adelaide and Dernancourt while a Minister and researched and developed the connection during the following years.

Adelaide and the small French village of Dernancourt in the Valle de Somme / Ancre have a close connection dating back 100 years. That relationship was formed in much the same way as the more well-known connection between Robinvale (Vic) and Villers-Bretonneux to the SW of Dernancourt. The citizens of Adelaide contributed to a reconstruction fund that re-built the village following the ravages of The Great War. While Adelaide seems to have forgotten the relationship, the people of Dernancourt in France have not. Since her time as Lord Mayor, Jane Lomax-Smith has done much to re-kindle this now almost-forgotten connection and suggests that Adelaide remembers too. In this the Centenary Year of the end of the Great War, which so marked communities both here and in France, let's pause to reflect on a special bond which spans the globe between Adelaide and a small rural village in northern France.