District 85 champion videos and workshop videos:
Theme: Be a Star
Featuring Mary Cheyne from the United States (Hong Kong Chinese by birth), 2009 World Championship of Public Speaking 1st Runner-up, as our Keynote Speaker.
Date: 4-6 November 2011 (Friday noon to Sunday noon)
Venue: Regal Hong Kong Hotel, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Early Bird Price: HK$1,588 / RMB1,388 until 31 Aug 2011. Buy 10 get 1 FREE.
2011 Spring Xiamen Conference
Theme: Shine Out Loud
Features:
–George Yen, Toastmasters International Second Vice President
–Rory Vaden, 2007 First Runner-up World Champion of Public Speaking
–International Speech Contest, English Table Topics Contest and Mandarin Speech Showcase
–Video introduction of Xiamen Conference 厦门峰会视频介绍
–Ticketing Info 票务信息
–Contest Results
2010 Fall Beijing Conference
Theme: TM Fans, 说出范儿
Features:
-Randy Harvey, 2004 world champion of public speaking, presented two workshops
–English Humorous Speech Contest, English Evaluation Contest and Mandarin Humorous Speech Showcase
–Around 450 attendees
-Trailer of 2010 Beijing Conference 北京峰会预告片
-Video: highlights of 2010 Beijing Conference 北京峰会精彩回顾视频
-Contest Result
2010 Spring Conference May 7th-9th,Shanghai
Theme: Achieve Together
Features:
-Ed Tate, 2000 world champion of public speaking, presented two workshops
-Over 10 International Workshop Speakers
–International Speech Contest, English Table Topics Contest and Mandarin Speech Showcase
–HK and Macau Clubs Handover Ceremony:Hongkong&Macau to join District 85 from July 1st,2010
–For the fiirst time we had over 450 attendees
2009 Fall Conference Nov. 27th, 28th Shenzhen
Theme: Go Beyond
Features:
-Lance Miller, 2005 world champion of public speaking, presented two workshops
-Toastmasters International Director Keith Ostergard delivered the keynote address
-First time to have International Director who is from our district
-English Humorous Speech Contest, English Evaluation Contest and Mandarin Table Topics Showcase
View conference photos here (Password: sz2009)
2009 Spring Conference May 22nd, 23rd Beijing
Theme: Envision the Future
Feature:
-Toastmasters International Director Poh Kim Siong gave a workshop and a keynote address
-International Speech Contest and Mandarin Speech Showcase
-For the first time our district champion of International Speech Contest would join inter-district speech contest in August in Toastmasters International Convention
-Past International Director 1989 – 1991, Eileen Wolfe gave a workshop
2008 Fall Conference Nov. 28th, 29th Guangzhou
Theme: Discovery
Features:
-Craig Valentine, 1999 world champion of public speaking presented two workshops
-Toastmasters International Director Mohammed Murad delivered the keynote address
-English Humorous Speech Contest and English Table Topics Speech Contest
-For the first time we had over 350 attendees
-For the fiirst time we had Hong Kong and Macau toastmasters members joining our conference
2008 Spring Conference May 30th, 31st Shanghai
Theme: Go for the Olympic Spirit
Features:
-First time to have a world champion as our VIP speaker. Darren Lacroix, 2001 world champion of public speaking gave one keynote address and one workshop
-Past Toastmasters International Director 2002-2003, Jim Kokocki gave a workshop
-English Evaluation Contest and International Speech Contest
-For the fiirst time we had over 300 attendees
2007 Fall Conference Oct 19th, 20th Beijing
Theme: Share Our Passion
Features:
-First Humorous Speech Contest and Humorous Speech Showcase in Mandarin
-A nice hot spring resort
2007 Spring Conference May 25th, 26th Shenzhen
Theme: Passion makes Your Different
Features:
-Table Topics and Evaluation Contests in English and Showcases in Mandarin
-Toastmaters International Director George Yen visited us
-Conference as well as a holiday on a nice beach
2006 Fall Conference Oct 13rd, 14th Shanghai
The First China Toastmasters Conference
Theme: The International President’s Visit–Be There!
Features:
-First conference for China Toastmasters
-First National Prepared Speech Contest
-Toastmasters International President Johnny Uy gave a training for club officers and delivered keynote address
-Toastmasters International Executive Director Donna Groh visited us