On 6 October 2017 ICE president Tim Broyd will present awards to the following papers published in the various ICE Proceedings journals in 2016. Journal editorial panels nominated their best papers and an awards committee, chaired by Nigel Wright, allocated the awards. These award-winning papers can be downloaded for free from the ICE Virtual Library’s ‘ICE Publishing Awards 2017’ page at www.icevirtuallibrary.com/page/authors/awards-for-papers .