Roche World Cup - Speech Contest

Roche World Cup is a virtual speech contest among Roche Toastmasters clubs. It occurs annually in the month of October.

The event includes two levels of speech contests:

1. Club level contests: Participating clubs may choose their own format of contest to vote and submit their winner speech video advancing to the respective regional world cup.

2. Roche world cup level contests:

   1. Roche world cup 2020 was held on Oct 21st, 2020, in two installments due to time zone differences. One for Asian colleagues and one for the rest of the world. Judges from Asia will judge in the first round. Judges from the rest of the world can join any event depending on their availability. The events were streamed online with guest spectators (open to all employees). The event also includes finalist interview sessions as well as a live judging session.

   2. Roche world cup 2021 was held the week of on Oct 18th, 2021 with offline media streaming of club winners' speeches to all Roche employees and a voting deadline on EOB (local timezone) of Thursday, Oct 21st, 2021 from contest judges,

Participating clubs in 2020 and 2021 are:

Genentech Toastmasters Club, South San Francisco, CA, United States

Best In the Business Club, Indianapolis, IN, United States

RoBaToMaS - Roche Basel Toastmasters, Basel, Switzerland

Roche MVPs Club, Mississauga, ON, Canada

Roche SS Toastmasters Club, The Pinnacle Subang Jaya, Malaysia

Roche Malaysia Toastmasters Club, The Pinnacle Subang Jaya, Malaysia

Roche Desert Toastmasters, Oro Valley, AZ, United States

Winning speakers proudly presenting their trophies from the Roche Speech World Cup

Past events