IRISA is proud to host the POPL 2026 international conference, dedicated to programming languages and systems, at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes.

Led by Sandrine Brazy, Professor at the University of Rennes and member of the Epicure research team, POP is an annual symposium dedicated to the principles of programming languages.

The conference which begins on Sunday 11 January and runs until Saturday 17 January, providing a forum for the discussion of all aspects of programming languages and programming systems
The event brings together 16 conferences and workshops on a variety of topics, such as programming, formal methods, compilation, software security and quantum computing.

The symposium is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGACT and ACM SIGLOG.