The CSWE 
Annual Program Meeting (APM) is the premier national meeting in the social work education field.
More than 3,000 social work educators, administrators, practitioners, students, and other key decision makers from across the country and around the world attend APM each year, making it the largest gathering of its kind.
The 2012 conference theme, Social Work: A Capital Venture, aims to foster greater understanding among a range of constituents on the value of social work in addressing complex social concerns. The purpose is to promote the importance of investing resources to advance social work as a profession and as a science. It invites an examination of challenges and opportunities in growing high-quality social work education in its role as professional steward and the genesis of social work science.
The conference will be held November 9–12, 2012, at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC, and will offer 40 Tracks of programming.