SIGCOMM Education Workshop 2026

Networking Education for the AI Generation

Monday, August 17th, 2026  |  Full-day Workshop (8:30am – 5:00pm)
Format  |  Hybrid — In-Person + Virtual

Schedule

Every session runs hybrid, with a dedicated in-person moderator and a dedicated virtual moderator so remote participants are equal contributors.

Artifacts. Share teaching artifacts — assignments, labs, rubrics, slides, and datasets — in the shared workshop spreadsheet.

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Take part. Register to attend, and join the SIGCOMM Slack to continue the conversation before, during, and after the workshop.

Participation mode: In-Person Virtual

8:30–8:45 | Welcome

8:45–10:15 | Session 1: AI Panel — Accepted Papers

Moderators

Ranysha WareIn-Person

Jon CrowcroftVirtual

Panelists

Arpit GuptaIn-Person

Alex KrentselIn-Person

Koojana KuladinithiIn-Person

Vasanta ChagantiVirtual

10:15–10:45 | Coffee Break

10:45–12:15 | Session 2: Curriculum Panel — Accepted Papers

Moderators

Larry PetersonIn-Person

Fraida FundVirtual

Panelists

Aaron Gember-JacobsonIn-Person

Ricky MokIn-Person

Beatriz Palacios AbadVirtual

Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba GueyeVirtual

12:15–1:15 | Lunch

1:15–2:45 | Session 3 — Open Mic: What's on your mind? What are you doing in your courses?

This session is a mix of an “open mic,” “community session,” and “outrageous opinion”-style session at SIGCOMM, but focused on topics of interest to the SIGCOMM education community. It’s a chance for anyone in the community to talk about what they’re working on or about a topic that they’re passionate about, to discuss ideas about what the community of SIGCOMM educators can do with and for each other, or perhaps to talk about “pet peeves.” Speakers in this session might address topics that came up during the morning sessions and warrant continued discussion. This session is intended to be an interactive and engaging workshop-style experience.

Moderators

Jim KuroseIn-Person

Bruce DavieVirtual

Open-Mic Slots

Sign-ups are collected in a shared Google Doc.

2:45–3:15 | Coffee Break

3:15–4:45 | Session 4 — Birds of a Feather Breakouts (Virtual + In-Person)

Birds of a Feather breakouts trade the whole-room format for small, self-organized groups, both in-person and virtual, so the conversation that only got started earlier in the day has room to go deeper. Each group takes a topic, for example, a course design problem or an assessment approach, or a way to bring current research into the classroom, and spends the session on it. We start together, and then we’ll break out. We’re aiming for four to five topics proposed in a shared Google Doc.

BoF Topics

4:45–5:00 | Closing