Invited Speakers

We are pleased to announce that the keynote talks for SIROCCO 2026 will be given by:

Jukka Suomela, Aalto University

Jukka Suomela (https://jukkasuomela.fi/) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University, Finland. His research focuses on the theoretical foundations of distributed and parallel computing, with a particular emphasis on the concept of locality. He served as the PC chair of DISC 2019 and SIROCCO 2016, and as one of the local chairs of ALGO 2018. He is currently a member of the EATCS Council, he chaired the DISC steering committee from 2022 to 2024, and he has also served on the steering committees of SIROCCO and SWAT. He has received the FOCS 2019 Best Paper Award, the DISC 2012 and 2017 Best Paper Awards, and several teaching awards.

Talk: Distributed Quantum Advantage

Maria Potop-Butucaru, Sorbonne University

Maria Potop-Butucaru (https://lip6.fr/Maria.Potop-Butucaru) has been a full professor at the Sorbonne University since 2012. She received her BSc in Computer Science in 1996 from University Al. I Cuza, Iasi, Romania, and her MSc in 1997 jointly from University Al. I Cuza and Paris XI University, Orsay, France. She received her PhD in 2000 from Paris XI University, France. She was Associate Professor in University Rennes 1 from 2001 to 2006, then Associate Professor at Sorbonne University (former Pierre and Marie Curie University) from 2006 to 2011. Her research interests are distributed systems resilient to multi faults and attacks (crash, Byzantine, transient, etc.). She is interested in self* (self-organizing, selfhealing, and self-stabilizing) and secure static and dynamic distributed systems (e.g., blockchains, peer-to-peer networks, sensors, and robot networks). She served as PC member, chair, or general chair for several venues in distributed computing SSS, OPODIS, DISC, PODC, etc. She co-initiated the Tokenomics series of conferences in order to bring together economists and computer scientists interested in blockchain technologies and decentralized finance.

Talk: The Smart Contract Model