SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CATEGORY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS (CT2017) July 16-22, 2017 University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Dear Colleagues, This conference will be held on the University of British Columbia campus. It will begin with a reception at 4pm on Sunday July 16, 2017, and will end at 1pm on Saturday July 22, 2017. All those interested in category theory and its applications are welcome. Invited Speakers D. Hofmann, R. Lucyshyn-Wright M. Menni R. Pare T. Van der Linden We are pleased to announce a Special Invited Lecture at CT2017 by Bill Lawvere. Scientific Committee M. M. Clementino M. Gran G. Janelidze(Chair) P. T. Johnstone J. L. MacDonald S. Mantovani R. H. Street W. P. Tholen Organizing Committee M. Christiansen(Chair) J. L. MacDonald J. Picado Abstracts may be submitted to ct2017@mat.uc.pt from now until May 31, 2017. Selection of speakers from these submissions will be made shortly after that date. A latex template for the abstracts has been included in the conference webpage which has address http://www.mat.uc.pt/~ct2017 This announcement is made for your advance planning purposes only and does not require a response. Some support has been received from the Pacific Institute of Mathematics (PIMS}. Further details will be given in later announcements. I hope to see many of you in Vancouver next summer. Lauchie MacDonald [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]