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8. CAPSA’11 & General AAPA 2011 Study Tour Group Report1. Conference format ensures participationUnlike most technical conferences CAPSA attempts to involve participants in workshops that directtheir combined wisdom to areas in development or transition to ensure early redirection orreinforcement of the path. This can be challenging as delegates will have their views, andexpertise, subjected to peer overview. The environment opens up the opportunity for opensharing and, for those less experienced, it provide the opportunity to learn from those moreexperienced and to understand the breath of opinions around the workshop topics. At CAPSA’11workshops were run in five parallel sessions with delegates selecting according to there areas ofinterest / expertise.Workshop participation, Closing session, social events and the CAPSA’11 organizing committeeAt conferences there is also the need to accommodate highly specialized fields of developmentwhich are of importance but limited general interest. This was achieved through numerousparallel speciality sessions which allowed the large group of delegates continue to participateaccording to the topics they considered relevant.The conference tasks the technical organizing committee with the responsibility of reviewing thereactions of the delegates and the presentation of the papers with respect to impact and meetingthe goals of the conference and its key themes. This up to the minute feedback is conducted liveand receives feedback from the theme coordinators, authors and delegates as to agreement onthe conclusions. The closing session also accepts resolutions derived in workshops or from any ofV4-2 Page 112