| publisher = [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]]
| country = International
| frequency = annual
}}
[[International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems|The]] '''Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing''' ('''PODC''') is an [[academic conference]] in the field of [[distributed computing]] organised annually by the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (special interest groups [[ACM SIGACT|SIGACT]] and [[SIGOPS]]).<ref>[http://www.podc.org/ PODC web site].</ref>