The Women in IR group held a session at the 40th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017 held in Tokyo, Japan. The event was organized by graduate student Maram Hasanain (Qatar University) and WIR co-founder Laura Dietz. The session featured one-minute presentations by Vanessa Murdock, Grace Hui Yang, Sahar Asadi, Mei Kobayashi, Zehong Tan, Maria Maistro, Nazli Goharian, Tingting Dong, Harumi Murakami, Xiaolu Lu, Zhuyun Dai, and Maram Hasanain. Hannah Bast also presented at the event. Find out more: Event announcement / CACM blog post / Official photos