PLACES – Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency- and Communication-cEntric Software

The PLACES workshop is a forum for researchers from different fields to exchange new ideas about the challenges that concurrency and distribution bring to modern and future programming. The topics of interest cover many facets of concurrency, including theory, modelling, programming language design, verification, and case studies.

PLACES has been a satellite workshop of ETAPS since 2009, and is now well established as an ETAPS event.

Upcoming Edition: PLACES 2026

PLACES 2026 will be the 17th edition of the workshop, and will take place on 11 April 2026 in Turin, Italy, as a satellite event of ETAPS.

For more details, you can visit the PLACES 2026 website.

Past Editions

• PLACES'25 was in Hamilton with ETAPS
• PLACES'24 was in Luxembourg City with ETAPS
• PLACES'23 was in Paris with ETAPS
• PLACES'22 was in Munich with ETAPS
• PLACES'20 was held virtually with ETAPS
• PLACES'19 was in Prague with ETAPS
• PLACES'17 was in Uppsala with ETAPS
• PLACES'16 was in Eindhoven with ETAPS
• PLACES'15 was in London with ETAPS
• PLACES'14 was in Grenoble with ETAPS
• PLACES'13 was in Rome with ETAPS
• PLACES'12 was in Tallinn with ETAPS
• PLACES'11 was in Saarbrücken with ETAPS
• PLACES'10 was in Paphos with ETAPS
• PLACES'09 was in York with ETAPS
• PLACES'08 was in Oslo with DisCoTec