Program Overview
The schedule below is a placeholder and will be updated as the program is finalized. All times are in U.S. Mountain Time (UTC-7).
| Day 1 — Monday, August 17, 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Event | Room |
9:00am - 4:00pm 9:00am - 5:30pm 9:00am - 5:45pm 8:45am - 4:45pm 8:30am - 4:45pm 8:45am - 4:45pm | Room 401 Room 402 Room 403 Room 404 Room 501 Room 502 | |
9:00am - 12:30pm 8:45am - 12:15pm 8:30am - 12:15pm 9:00am - 12:15pm | Room 405 Room 503 Room 504 Room 505 | |
1:15pm - 4:45pm 1:15pm - 4:45pm 1:15pm - 4:45pm | Room 503 Room 504 Room 505 | |
| 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM | Welcome Reception Viewhouse Ballpark, 2015 Market St, Denver, CO (~20 min. walk) | |
| Day 2 — Tuesday, August 18, 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Event | Room |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Conference Welcome & Awards | Mile High 1 |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote: Walter Willinger: All models are wrong — some are useful, some are harmful: Perspectives from a 30 year-long journey in measuring and modeling the Internet | Mile High 1 |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM - 12:25 PM | Research Session: LLM Inference & Serving | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Network Verification & Formal Methods | Mile High 4 | |
| 12:25 PM - 1:50 PM | Lunch (Sponsored by Meta) | Mile High 2/3 |
| 1:50 PM - 3:15 PM | Research Session: Collective Communication Algorithms | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Cellular & RAN Systems | Mile High 4 | |
| 3:15 PM - 3:40 PM | Break | |
| 3:40 PM - 5:40 PM | Community Session | Mile High 1 |
| 5:40 PM - 6:40 PM | Student/Mentor Dinner | |
| Day 3 — Wednesday, August 19, 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Event | Room |
| 8:20 AM - 9:45 AM | Research Session: In-Network Aggregation for ML | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Cloud Networking: DPUs, SmartNICs & Gateways | Mile High 4 | |
| 9:45 AM - 10:10 AM | Break | |
| 10:10 AM - 11:35 AM | Research Session: AI Datacenter Networks & Communication | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Wireless, Backscatter & Sensing | Mile High 4 | |
| 11:35 AM - 11:45 AM | Transition | |
| 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | Non-paper Session: "Beyond GPUs: Networking and Systems Problems in Distributed LLM Serving" | Mile High 1 |
| Non-Paper Session: "SIGCOMM Retrosession: Real-time Media" | Mile High 4 | |
| 12:45 PM - 1:50 PM | Lunch (Sponsored by Ali Baba) | Mile High 2/3 |
| 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM | Research Session: Scale-Up Fabrics: Measurement & Design | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Content Delivery & Video Streaming | Mile High 4 | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:10 PM | Transition | |
| 3:10 PM - 4:20 PM | Research Session: Diagnosis & Root-Cause Analysis | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Cloud Data Planes & Network Virtualization | Mile High 4 | |
| 4:20 PM - 5:30 PM | Posters/Demos | Mile High 2/3 |
| 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM | Cocktail Hour and Banquet Dinner Denver Performing Arts Center, 1350 Arapahoe St, Denver, CO 80204 (~5 min. walk) | |
| Day 4 — Thursday, August 20, 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Event | Room |
| 9:00 AM - 10:25 AM | Research Session: Optical & Photonic Fabrics | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Internet Measurement & Routing | Mile High 4 | |
| 10:25 AM - 10:50 AM | Break | |
| 10:50 AM - 12:15 PM | Research Session: Scheduling for ML Training Clusters | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Host Networking & Packet Processing | Mile High 4 | |
| 12:15 PM - 1:40 PM | Lunch (Sponsored by Google) | Mile High 2/3 |
| 1:40 PM - 2:40 PM | Non-Paper Session: "Inside the AI-RAN and O-RAN Open-Source Stack: What the Stack Enables, Where It Blocks Us, and What Should Come Next" | Mile High 1 |
| Non-Paper Session: "Meet Reviewer #2" | Mile High 4 | |
| 2:40 PM - 3:05 PM | Break | |
| 3:05 PM - 4:30 PM | Research Session: Datacenter Transport: RDMA & Congestion Control | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Security, Privacy & Networked Systems | Mile High 4 | |
| 4:30 PM - 4:40 PM | Transition | |
| 4:40 PM - 5:40 PM | Student Research Competition | |
| Day 5 — Friday, August 21, 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Event | Room |
| 8:30 AM - 9:55 AM | Research Session: Programmable Switches & Data-Plane Hardware | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Satellite & Non-Terrestrial Networks | Mile High 4 | |
| 9:55 AM - 10:10 AM | Break | |
| 10:10 AM - 11:35 AM | Research Session: Congestion, Rate & Schedule Control | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Learning-Based & Data-Driven Network Systems | Mile High 4 | |
| 11:35 AM - 11:45 AM | Transition | |
| 11:45 AM - 12:55 PM | Research Session: WAN, Configuration & Verification | Mile High 1 |
| Research Session: Deployment Experiences: Security, Transport & Core | Mile High 4 | |