We are delighted to announce the first confirmed speakers for SPTDC 2026, along with our sponsors: - Giuliano Losa - Stellar Development Foundation, USA - Alberto Sonnino - Mysten Labs and University College London, UK - Nirupam Gupta - University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Naama Ben-David - Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel - Sara Tucci Piergiovanni - University of Paris-Saclay, France - Sonia Ben Mokhtar - INSA Lyon, France - Siddhartha Jayanti - Dartmouth College, USA - Thomas Nowak - ENS Paris-Saclay, France - Gadi Taubenfeld - Reichman University, Israel - Fabien Dufoulon - Lancaster University, UK When : April 27 - 30, 2026 Where : Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Website : https://lnkd.in/dE-uC4BE SPTDC 2026 will take place in the historic city of Heraklion on the island of Crete and will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to discuss advances in the practice and theory of distributed computing. 👏 A huge shout out to our sponsors: Stellar Development Foundation | Mysten Labs | Neurolingo | Mediterranean Cloud Booking Services - MCBS | ICS-FORTH | University of Crete | HAR.S.H. (Hardware-Aware extReme-scale Similarity search) | Greece 2.0 | #NextGenerationEU