Program Overview

DISC 2026 runs from Monday 9 to Friday 13 November 2026 at the Chiostro di San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. The main conference (Tuesday–Thursday) is single-track. Workshops run in parallel on Monday and Friday. Every entry below links to the matching point of the detailed program.

Conference session Keynote / panel Workshop Social program Break

Monday, 9 November — Workshops

Four workshops in three parallel tracks · see detailed program

Time Aula del Chiostro
150 seats		 Aula degli Affreschi
50 seats		 Aula DIET
25–30 seats
08:15–09:00 Registration
09:00–11:00 ADGA Student Workshop TopoDISC
11:00–11:25 Coffee break
11:25–12:30 ADGA Student Workshop TopoDISC
12:30–13:45 Lunch
13:45–15:40 ADGA CELLS TopoDISC
15:40–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–18:00 ADGA CELLS TopoDISC
18:00–19:30 Welcome reception

including DISC over 40 years: some statistics and fun facts by Alkida Balliu (GSSI, Italy)

Afternoon room allocation for the workshops is still being finalised.

Tuesday, 10 November — Conference

Single track · see detailed program

Time Program — Aula del Chiostro
08:15–08:40 Registration
08:40–08:45 Welcome & Opening Remarks
08:45–10:00 Session 1
Communication efficient Byzantine agreement
Chair: Jennifer Welch
10:00–11:00 Keynote 1 — David Peleg (Weizmann Inst., Israel)
Forty Years of Distributed Network Algorithms: A Portrait of DISC’s Scientific Harvest
11:00–11:25 Coffee break
11:25–12:30 Session 2
Coloring and related problems
Chair: Jukka Suomela
12:30–13:45 Lunch break
13:45–15:40 Session 3
Weak communication models
Chair: Ran Gelles
15:40–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:45 Session 4a — Best papers
Session 4b
Topological arguments · Computational settings
Chair: Keren Censor-Hillel
18:00–19:30 Business meeting

Wednesday, 11 November — Conference

Single track · see detailed program

Time Program — Aula del Chiostro
08:45–10:00 Session 5
Energy complexity and massively parallel computation
Chair: Boaz Patt-Shamir
10:00–11:00 Keynote 2 — Jennifer Welch (Texas A&M University)
Forty years of fault-tolerant distributed computing
11:00–11:25 Coffee break
11:25–12:30 Session 6
Population protocols
Chair: Christian Scheideler
12:30–13:45 Lunch break
13:45–15:40 Session 7
Concurrent data structures
Chair: Siddhartha Jayanti
15:40–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:20 Session 8
Solvability of agreement
Chair: Michelle Yeo
19:00–22:00 Conference banquet

including DISC: From conceivement to puberty by Nicola Santoro (Carleton University, Canada)

Thursday, 12 November — Conference

Single track · see detailed program

Time Program — Aula del Chiostro
08:45–10:00 Session 9
Computing on graph families
Chair: Fabien Dufoulon
10:00–11:00 Panel: Past and Future Impact of Distributed Computing

Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland), Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, USA), Idit Keidar (Technion, Israel), Andrea Richa (Arizona State University) and Jukka Suomela (Aalto University, Finland)
11:00–11:25 Coffee break
11:25–12:30 Session 10
Cryptographic tools for fault tolerance
Chair: Keren Censor-Hillel
12:30–13:45 Lunch break
13:45–15:40 Session 11
Fast (Byzantine) fault tolerance · Game theory in distributed computing
Chair: Petr Kuztensov
15:40–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:20 Session 12
Local certification and locally checkable labelings
Chair: Michal Dory
17:20–17:25 Closing Remarks

Friday, 13 November — Workshops

Four workshops in three parallel tracks · see detailed program

Time Aula del Chiostro
150 seats		 Aula degli Affreschi
50 seats		 Aula DIET
25–30 seats
09:00–11:00 MAC HACDA AMG
11:00–11:25 Coffee break
11:25–12:30 MAC HACDA AMG
12:30–13:45 Lunch
13:45–15:40 MAC   WAND
15:40–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–18:00 MAC   WAND

Afternoon room allocation for the workshops is still being finalised.

The program is preliminary and may still change. Session chairs will be announced closer to the conference.