We just concluded our 2nd Annual Celebration meeting of SSRN with ceremonies and festivities. Invited guest speaker, Ivar Jacobson gave a great talk about Essence and how it can benefit the Software Startup community.

As announced earlier, 3 network awards were also given. Here are the awards and the recipients:

• SSRN Junior Researcher Award 2017 went to Pertti Seppänen, University of Oulu, Finland.
• SSRN Senior Researcher Award 2017 went to Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.
• SSRN Community award 2017 went to Xiaofeng Wang, Free University of Bozen Bolzano, Italy and Anh Nguyen Duc, Norwegian University of Science and Technlogy, Norway.

Congratulations to all the award recipients!