The 2017 IEEE North Jersey Advanced Communications Symposium (NJACS) was held at the Babbio Center, Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, NJ, on Saturday, September 23, 2017. The symposium consisted of four keynote presentations and a parallel poster session contest with nearly a dozen student posters from universities in the region. The symposium was well attended with 105 participants from the NY/NJ metro-area.