August 17, 2026 –
August 21, 2026
Microsoft at SIGCOMM 2026
Location: Denver, CO, USA
Microsoft is proud to sponsor SIGCOMM 2026 (opens in new tab) the premier annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication. This year’s event will be held in Denver, CO, and will bring together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds with research contributions or significant deployment experiences in communication networks and networked systems.
Booth schedule
Tuesday, August 18
| Time | Session title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30-11:00 AM | Systems and networking & software-hardware co-design | Liangcheng Yu (Microsoft Research Redmond) |
| 10:30-11:00 AM | Opportunities at Microsoft Research India | Venkat Padmanabhan, MSR India |
| 1:30-1:50 PM | Accelerating Host SDN Policy Evaluation; Software-Hardware Co-Design | Harish Srinivasan, Zach Libby, Jonathan Hunter (Azure Core) |
| 3:15-3:40 PM | Hardware and AI infrastructure | Paolo Costa (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK) |
| 3:15-3:40 PM | Systems and networking | Sujata Banerjee (Microsoft Research Redmond) |
Wednesday, August 19
| Time | Session title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:55-10:10 AM | SmartNIC & Hardware | Anshuman Verma, Tian Tan (Azure Core) |
| 1:30-1:50 PM | Accelerating Host SDN Policy Evaluation & Software-Hardware Co-Design | Harish Srinivasan, Zach Libby, Jonathan Hunter (Azure Core) |
Organizing Committee Members
Program Committee
- Abdul Kabbani
- Dina Papagiannaki
- Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
- Hitesh Ballani
- Liangcheng Yu
- Paolo Costa
- Pooria Namyar
- Soheil Abbasloo
Microsoft Research Forum
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