PODC 2026 Call for Participation (early registration deadline: 3 June)

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                     CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

45th ACM SIGACT/SIGOPS International Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
                          (PODC 2026)

        July 6-10, 2026, Egham, England
                https://www.podc.org
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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 45th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2026),
to be held July 6–10, 2026, at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham, England.

Registrations are open: https://icalppodcspaa2026.cs.rhul.ac.uk/conference/
Early bird deadline is June 3, 2026.

PODC 2026 will feature presentations of:
- 42 full  papers
- 23 Brief Announcements

The list of accepted papers is available at:
https://www.podc.org/podc2026/list-of-accepted-papers/

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Workshops and Tutorials
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PODC 2026 will host three co-located workshops:

- Advanced Tools, Programming Languages, and PLatforms for Implementing and Evaluating Algorithms for Distributed Systems (ApPLIED)
- Student Spotlight Workshop 2026
- Gems of Distributed Computing (GODC@PODC)

In addition, the conference will feature two tutorials:

- Grassroots Computing: Distributed Systems Without Global Resources
- Erasure Coding in Distributed Protocols

More details at: https://www.podc.org/podc2026/workshops-and-tutorials/

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Invited Speakers
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PODC 2026 is proud to announce the following distinguished invited speakers:

- Robert Tarjan (Princeton University)
- Peter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

The conference will also feature the 2026 Dijkstra Prize talk by:
Gopal Pandurangan (University of Houston)

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2026 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
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The full details about the 2026 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing are available at:
https://www.podc.org/2026-edsger-w-dijkstra-prize-in-distributed-computing/

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Travel and Local Information
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Information regarding travel, accommodation, venue details, and local arrangements is available at:
https://icalppodcspaa2026.cs.rhul.ac.uk/local/

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Sponsors
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We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our sponsors:

- Decart
- Akamai
- AWS
- Google
- Sui
- ACM
- SIGACT
- SIGOPS

Their support helps make PODC 2026 possible.

We look forward to welcoming the distributed computing community to PODC 2026 in Egham this July.


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COMMITTEES
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Program Committee:

Dan Alistarh, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
James Aspnes, Yale University, USA
Hagit Attiya, Technion, Israel
Naama Ben-David, Technion, Israel
Sebastian Brandt, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany
Yi-Jun Chang, National University of Singapore
Bogdan Chlebus, Augusta University, USA
Peter Davies-Peck, Durham University, UK
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Université Paris Cité, France
Fabien Dufoulon, Lancaster University, UK
Faith Ellen, University of Toronto, Canada
Antonio Fernández Anta, IMDEA Networks, Spain
Laurent Feuilloley, CNRS/Université Lyon, France
Diana Ghinea, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
Emmanuel Godard, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Wojciech Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada
Danny  Hendler, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Taisuke Izumi, Osaka University, Japan
Prasad Jayanti, Dartmouth College, USA
Colette Johnen, Université de Bordeaux, France
Frederik Mallmann-Trenn, King’s College London, UK
Avery Miller, University of Manitoba, Canada
Pedro Montealegre, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research, USA
Alexandre Nolin, Télécom SudParis, France
Thomas Nowak, ENS Paris-Saclay, France
Rotem Oshman, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Shreyas Pai, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Gopal Pandurangan, University of Houston, USA
Eric Ruppert, York University, Canada (Chair)
Michael Spear, Lehigh University, USA
Jara Uitto, Aalto University, Finland
Robin Vacus, LIP6, France
Tijn de Vos, TU Graz, Austria
Jennifer Welch, Texas A&M University, USA
Michelle X. Yeo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Aarhus University, Denmark
Igor Zablotchi, Mysten Labs, Switzerland
Isabella Ziccardi, Université Paris Cité, France

Conference Committee:

Dennis Olivetti, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy (General Chair)
Michal Dory, University of Haifa, Israel (Treasurer 2026)
Ajay Singh, FORTH, Greece (Publicity co-chair)
Leqi (Jimmy) Zhu, University of Manitoba, Canada (Publicity co-chair)
Siddhartha Jayanti, Dartmouth College, USA (Workshop co-chair)
Quanquan Liu, Yale University, USA (Workshop co-chair)
Diana Ghinea, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland (Travel Award Chair)
Sean Ovens, University of Waterloo, Canada (Proceedings Chair)
Eric Ruppert, York University, Canada (Program Chair)
Matthew Hague (Local Chair)

Local organization:

Argyrios Deligkas (Workshops)
Magnus Wahlström (Treasurer)
Julien Lange (Travel Coordinator)
Matteo Sammartino and Daniel O’Keefe (Communications and Publicity)
Reuben Rowe (Website)
Eduard Eiben
Francisco Ferreira

Steering Committee:

Panagiota Fatourou, FORTH – ICS & University of Crete – CSD, Greece (Chair)
Eric Ruppert, York University, Canada (PC chair 2026)
Fabian Kuhn, University of Freiburg, Germany (PC chair 2025)
Petr Kuznetsov, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique Paris, France (PC chair 2024)
Dennis Olivetti, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy (General chair 2026)
Michal Dory, University of Haifa, Israel (Treasurer 2026)
Philipp Woelfel, University of Calgary, Canada (At-large)


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