Since 2007, the prize is sponsored jointly by PODC and the EATCS International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), and the presentation takes place alternately at PODC (even years) and DISC (odd years).
Учредителями премии являются организации ACM и EATCS (), а точнее комитеты симпозиумов "ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing" (PODC) и "EATCS International Symposium on Distributed Computing" (DISC).