The NEC C&C Foundation

Welcoming speech by Mr. Kaoru Yano,
President of NEC C&C Foundation

The 2015 C&C Prize Ceremony was held at ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo on December 21, 2015. The ceremony started with the welcoming speech by Mr. Kaoru Yano, the president of NEC C&C Foundation, followed by the recognition of 2015 prize recipients by Dr. Tomonori Aoyama, the chairman of the awards committee. The 2015 C&C Prizes were presented to Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa, Dr. Martin Casado, Prof. Nick McKeown and Prof. Scott Shenker. (Prof. Shenker was unfortunately unable to attend)  

Group A: Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa;
For Outstanding Leadership and Pioneering Contributions to Leading the Research and Development of Advanced Information Technologies for the Era of Large-scale Digital Data

Group B: Dr. Martin Casado, Prof. Nick McKeown and Prof. Scott Shenker;
For Pioneering Research in Advancing Networking Technology and Outstanding Contributions Promoting the Development of Software-Defined Networking

Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa	Dr. Martin Casado	Prof. Nick McKeown

As shown in the program leaflet, after the congratulatory speeches and the recipients' acceptance speeches, the ceremony continued to the cocktail party for exchange of greetings, and ended with the dinner to celebrate the 2015 prize recipients. Followings are the pictures taken at the ceremony.  

Venue of the C&C Prize Ceremony	Recognition of 2015 C&C Prize Recipients by Dr. Tomonori Aoyama, Chairman of Awards Committee	Congratulatory speech by Mr. Hisayoshi Ando
Congratulatory speech by Dr. Masanori Koshiba	Acceptance speech by Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa	Acceptance speech by Prof. Nick McKeown
Acceptance speech by Dr. Martin Casado	Atmosphere of acceptance speech	Exchange of greetings at cocktail party
Exchange of greetings at cocktail party	Exchange of greetings at cocktail party	Exchange of greetings at cocktail party
Dinner party	Congratulatory speech and toast by Dr. Tatsuo Tomita	Congratulatory talk by Prof. Hidehiko Tanaka
Congratulatory talk by Mr. Yukio Ito	Congratulatory talk by Mr. Toshiyuki Kanoh	Recipients and their families