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68CONFERENCE EVALUATIONIn terms of general assessment and overall satisfaction, 66% rated the conference to be excellent, andabout a third of them rated it as good. Only one participant was not satisfied and indicated that theconference needs to be improved.Time AllotmentFigure 1 below shows that most participants felt that there was sufficient time for the duration of theconference (agree+ strongly agree = 88%). However, about a fourth of them expressed that addinganother day or two would have been better. They expressed that there were a lot of interestingpresentations that they were not able to attend because parallel sessions were too packed andcompressed so they had to choose which ones were most beneficial to them.Figure 1. Assessment of the time allotment for the conferenceMost of the participants (83%) agreed/strongly agreed that there was a good balance in the timeallotment between the plenary and parallel sessions. However, some of them commented that timeallowed for each speaker in the parallel sessions was too short. Many of the presenters were not ableto keep within the time limit; some of the longer presentations had to be cut off; or otherwise thespeakers had to zip through their Powerpoints. Suggestions to improve the situation included briefingthe presenters beforehand so that they would be more time-conscious, and applying quality (perhapseven quantity) control on the Powerpoints before the presentation. Another was to allot more timefor the individual presentations so that the papers - especially the methods used and results - could bemore extensively discussed.Furthermore, about three-fourths or 76% of the participants felt that there was enough time duringthe conference for networking. They valued the opportunity to meet, discuss, and share ideas andexperiences with experts from various disciplines. Some of them came to fully appreciate the needto improve their connections and realise the value of collaboration across sectors, between/amonginstitutions, and even countries or regions in order to adequately address climate change concerns.With this connection, a few of the participants particularly appreciated the inclusion of two sessionsdevoted to the topic – Plenary 2 (South-South Collaboration…) and Plenary 3 (Networking for R&D…).International Conference on Climate Change Impactsand Adaptation for Food and Environmental SecurityConference Summary Report