2025 Event Agenda Overview

REMINDER to all Registered Attendees:  It will be easy to access and navigate all #CPETS25 event info on your smartphone or on any mobile device! The DACdb MyEvent app will be live with the CPETS 2025 event agenda and data a few days before our event start on March 6, 2025.

To download the MyEvent app and activate it for your mobile device: on your device, go to myevent.dacdb.com and follow those instructions. Or, even easier: at the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, search on “DACdb MyEvent” to find and download the app. For access: Use your Rotary login credentials (same email and password that you used for CPETS25 registration) – with our Event Code: CPETS2025. (Unregistered folks can use guest passcode = Rotary2025.)

DACdb MyEvent provides convenient access to session times and room locations, your personal schedule, hotel map, exhibitors, contact info for all registered attendees, evaluation survey links … and more!  These instructions will be included on page 1 of our #CPETS25 Quick Reference Guide, which will be availableble in print at the event Registration desk.

This webpage is in progress for the 2025 Final Agenda and updated info!  (2025 agenda and breakout sessions topics will be very similar to previous year.)

CPETS25 Event Agenda

Updated information will be available as we get closer to the event start date! We appreciate your patience.

The 2025 Quick Reference Guide (QRG) will include the times for each session of our 2.5 day agenda. The QRG also includes the instructions and QR Codes for easy installation of the MyEvent app. Print copies of the QRG will be available at event Check-in, and will be available as a pdf download here (available a few days before event start).

Overview

#CPETS25 opens on the afternoon of Thursday, Mar. 6 with Presidents 101 for those PEs who did not attend a session earlier in their districts, plus two optional Enrichment Sessions on Rotary Tech 101 and Risky Business (Rotary insurance policies). That evening features a Reception with cash bar, followed by a group Hospitality Suite, hosted by the four District Governors Elect, which will include dinner food, beverages “on the house,” and great networking opportunities. 

The “official” sessions for PEs and district leadership teams begin on the morning of Friday, Mar. 7, including a lunch and dinner Plenary with VIP speakers from Rotary International. Our House of Friendship opens that morning (and continues through Saturday afternoon), featuring exhibitors selling Rotary branded merchandise, as well as information tables hosted by various Rotary causes and service project opportunities. The Friday agenda features sessions hosted by each district, plus MDBO sessions (Multi District Break Outs) where PEs have the chance to interact with their peers from similar sized clubs in other districts. The MDBO session topics for CPETS25 are:

    • Increasing Community Impact
    • Expanding Our Reach through Increasing Membership
    • Growing Clubs by Enhancing Participant Engagement
    • Adapting our Clubs to Fit our Community’s and our Rotarians’ Needs.

While the PEs are in their MDBO sessions, district leaders at the Assistant Governor and future District Governor levels participate in facilitated interactive seminars with their peers from other districts. (Click here for the DGN/DGND Roundtable sessions agenda.) This year’s Emerging Club Leaders Academy (ECLA) will begin on Friday afternoon with optional sessions, plus the Saturday sessions.  After dinner on Friday, the group Service Project will take place. Then everyone heads back to the Hospitality Suite — with great networking and fun!

Saturday, Mar. 8 includes a breakfast buffet, the Emerging Club Leaders Seminar, and a Luncheon General Session with our third VIP speaker. Our CPETS25 event will adjourn at 2.30 pm on March 8.

 

Emerging Club Leaders Academy (ECLA)

Our Emerging Club Leaders Academy is offered at Chesapeake PETS, from Friday afternoon Mar. 7 through Saturday the 8th. ECLA is designed to identify and positon our emerging club leaders for success at the club and perhaps at the District level. We are looking to identify Rotarians in your Rotary District who can join a club’s leadership team for a unique training opportunity at Chesapeake PETS. These emerging club leaders participate in sessions that are fun, topical, and interactive, and geared to refining leadership skills.

Participants will gain important information and engage in leadership skill building by learning how to:

    • Gain applicable strategies for leading clubs
    • Increase Rotary’s Impact and expand Rotary’s Reach
    • Enhance club member participation and deliver value added
    • Increase Club and District abilities to adapt by embracing innovation
    • Find their leadership style
    • Understand the technology and training tools available … and much more!

Space is limited for ECLA, with each District recruiting up to 15 attendees. Interested participants should contact their District Governor Nominee and/or District Governor Elect for info on the process to apply in their District and registration instructions.

 

Service Project 2025: Books For Bright Beginnings

It has become a tradition that the current DGE class decides on and manages a multi-district Community Service Project, whereby their Presidents Elect mobilize their clubs in a hands-on volunteer project that benefits their local communities. Past causes have included food insecurity and toiletries drives to benefit community members living with homelessness.

This year’s DGEs have selected early childhood literacy as their community cause. Children who have access to books and literacy activities during their formative years develop stronger language skills, better reading habits, and improved cognitive abilities. However, many children from low-income families, particularly those in Head Start programs and Title 1 kindergartens, lack access to quality reading materials and creative resources.

The 2025 multi-district Service Project – Books For Bright Beginnings –  will culminate at the annual CPETS25 event with hands-on activities on Friday evening. The project seeks to address this gap by mobilizing Rotary club members to collect and donate children’s books targeted at ages 3-6, and Presidents Elect will engage in a hands-on activity of coloring books that will also be donated. By doing so, the project will inspire a love for reading and creativity while fostering meaningful engagement among Rotarians.

Presidents Elect will receive details at their District Pre-PETS sessions on how they and their clubs can participate to collect books that will benefit their local communities.

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Note: for the Multi District Break Out Session room locations on Friday and Saturday, PEs should refer to the section number code on the back of their name badge. Their specif room locations for breakouts will also be accessible in their DACdb MyEvent if logged in with the email address ysed for CPETS registration.