CppCon 2026

Registration Reception 20:00 - 22:00

Tee Shirt Night 17:30 - 20:00

Field Trip: Red Rocks & Dinosaur Ridge 10:30 - 16:00

Plenary 08:30 - 10:15

Conference Group P...

Committee Fireside Chat 20:30 - 22:00

HRT Happy Hour 18:30 - 20:30

Registration 08:00 - 08:30

From Firmware to Screen: Real-Time Control, Simulation, and Visu... 11:00 - 12:00

Component based or monolithic development for large C and C++ pr... 14:00 - 15:00

The journey to "/W4 /WX": How hard could it be? 15:15 - 16:15

You’re absolutely wrong! How to get agents to solve complex prob... 16:45 - 17:45

Composing the Future: Async Workflows with std::execution 11:00 - 12:00

Familiar C++ Patterns That Fail at Scale and the Design Shifts T... 14:00 - 15:00

std::simd Without Compromise: Making SIMD in C++26 and Beyond as... 15:15 - 16:15

Using Type Erasure to Extend APIs You Don't Own: A Case Study Fr... 16:45 - 17:45

Back to Basics: Move Semantics 11:00 - 12:00

Back to Basics: Templates 14:00 - 15:00

Back to Basics: Code Analysis 15:15 - 16:15

Back to Basics: Lambdas, Function Objects, and std::function 16:45 - 17:45

From 20 Nanoseconds to One: Optimizing Bishop, Rook, and Queen M... 11:00 - 12:00

Towards a complete contract-assertion facility for C++ 14:00 - 15:00

Escaping the AST: A Data-Oriented, Lock-Free Parallel Compiler A... 15:15 - 16:15

Ensuring Code Quality in the Age of AI : More Code, Less Enginee... 16:45 - 17:45

Queue Discipline: A Deep Dive into Lock-Free SPSC, MPSC, SPMC, a... 11:00 - 12:00

Pointers to Power: Navigating Organizational Influence 14:00 - 15:00

Capability Routing Grid: From Decoupled Plugins to the Hardware... 15:15 - 16:15

My DAG Ate All My Cores: Identifying and Resolving Build Graph B... 16:45 - 17:45

Same Bits Without Losing MIPS: Reproducible Numerics at Full Har... 11:00 - 12:00

Thinking Low Level, Writing High Level 14:00 - 15:00

Catching Leaks: How to stop a C++ program at the exact instructi... 15:15 - 16:15

AEMBER: Modern Embedded C++ Without the Chaos 16:45 - 17:45

Plenary 10:30 - 12:00

Implementing Flat Containers: Design and Optimisations in libc++... 09:00 - 10:00

Rule of 0,1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10? 14:00 - 15:00

C++ in an AI World 15:15 - 16:15

Practical HPC — Forcing the Compiler's Hand with Modern C++ 16:45 - 17:45

Citadel Reception 18:30 - 20:30

C++: The Documentary 20:30 - 22:00

Processor Design and C++ Memory Models 09:00 - 10:00

Running Compiler Explorer in 2026: Sandboxes, Storage, and Stran... 14:00 - 15:00

Compile-Time Polymorphism for Runtime-Flexible Systems: Lessons... 15:15 - 16:15

Can I memcpy This Type Across a Boundary? Verifying Object Repre... 16:45 - 17:45

Back to Basics: std::unordered_map 09:00 - 10:00

C++ at Scale 14:00 - 15:00

Back to Basics: C++20 Concepts 15:15 - 16:15

Back to Basics: Function Overloading 16:45 - 17:45

Scaling Robotics to 200 Developers: Flexible C++ Architectures f... 09:00 - 10:00

Inside a Small Game Engine: An Architecture Tour in Modern C++ 14:00 - 15:00

Lock-Free Timer Scheduling With C++ Atomics 15:15 - 16:15

Graphics Programming with SDL 3 Part 2 16:45 - 17:45

Death by a Thousand Tape Entries: Low-Overhead Automatic Differe... 09:00 - 10:00

What Are We Synchronizing? 14:00 - 15:00

Hacking and Securing C++ 15:15 - 16:15

The Value of Idiomatic Code 16:45 - 17:45

What's New for C++ in Visual Studio Code: C++ and AI Tooling for... 09:00 - 10:00

Breaking the Speed Limit: Building a High-Throughput Hashing Eng... 14:00 - 15:00

Mock Any Function in C++ Without Changing a Single Line of Code 15:15 - 16:15

From User to Contributor: Fixing Bugs and Adding Features in Cla... 16:45 - 17:45

Plenary 10:30 - 12:00

Lightning Talks 21:00 - 22:00

What can C++26 reflection do for you?: A practical experiment in... 09:00 - 10:00

Interesting Upcoming Low-Latency, Networking, Concurrency, and P... 14:00 - 15:00

Writing High Performance Parsers Using State Machines 15:15 - 16:15

CMake: Making Hard Things Easy 16:45 - 17:45

Awaiters and Awaitables 09:00 - 10:00

The Ghost in the Heap: Defeating a Memory Thief 14:00 - 15:00

Readable Async Workflows in Modern C++: Coroutines Meet std::exp... 15:15 - 16:15

Meet Guy Davidson 16:45 - 17:45

Ranges Without Compromise: Designing for Simplicity, Performance... 09:00 - 10:00

Refactoring Techniques and Strategies (a Tale in Three Acts) 14:00 - 15:00

Back to Basics: Computer Systems 15:15 - 16:15

The Clocks of C++: Knowing When (and Why) to Use Each One 16:45 - 17:45

Turbocharging Native Code Performance: Compiler Optimizations, P... 09:00 - 10:00

Embedded-Friendly C++: Modern Features That Make a Difference 14:00 - 15:00

AI is UB with Better PR 15:15 - 16:15

Zero Cost Scripting Languages for Game Engines With C++26 Static... 16:45 - 17:45

Deterministic Storage: Building a Predictable Embedded File Syst... 09:00 - 10:00

In Pursuit of a 6,000 FPS Game Boy Emulator 14:00 - 15:00

You Shall Not Pass*! 15:15 - 16:15

Modern C++ Techniques to Reduce Boilerplate Without Sacrificing... 16:45 - 17:45

CUDA Tile C++: Practical Automatic Parallelization for the GPU 09:00 - 10:00

Automatic Splitting of Translation Units: Compiler-Agnostic Comp... 14:00 - 15:00

Works on My Machine, Works in CI: Treating Your Build Toolchain... 15:15 - 16:15

C++ Core Guidelines Enforcement in Practice 16:45 - 17:45

Plenary 10:30 - 12:00

Lightning Talks 20:30 - 22:00

Meet the Presenters Banquet 18:30 - 20:30

Writing Low-Latency C++: Predictability, Cache, and the Architec... 09:00 - 10:00

When Zero-Cost Abstractions Aren’t Zero-Cost 14:00 - 15:00

The Latency Slippage: Understanding the Hidden Costs of Caching... 15:15 - 16:15

Quicker Than Quick: Using Radix Sort to Make `std::stable_sort`... 16:45 - 17:45

Beyond Monads: Pattern Matching Alternatives for Result Types 09:00 - 10:00

What Is Your Algorithmic Core? 14:00 - 15:00

Building C++20 Modules: The Rest of the Story 15:15 - 16:15

Are You Smarter Than A Branch Predictor? 16:45 - 17:45

Back to Basics: Loops in C++ 09:00 - 10:00

Using Modules in a Real Project 14:00 - 15:00

Back to Basics: Memory Alignment 15:15 - 16:15

Getting More Out of AI in C++: C... 16:45 - 17:15

Who Is #include-ing You? Measuri... 17:20 - 17:50

The C++ safety issues your tools... 09:00 - 09:30

When Air Gaps Learn: AI, Data, a... 09:35 - 10:05

Type Punning: the joke is on you, pun intended. Fixing UB of rei... 14:00 - 15:00

Coroutines for Dummies 15:15 - 16:15

Extending Google Test for Statis... 16:45 - 17:15

API Design is Language Design: L... 17:20 - 17:50

Tying up Loose Threads: Making Y... 09:00 - 09:30

[[musttail]]-ling Our Way to a F... 09:35 - 10:05

Generating Reliable Reference Documentation for Modern C++ Using... 14:00 - 15:00

C++23 Tools you will actually use 15:15 - 16:15

Mentoring Through Code Review in a Senior-heavy C++ Team 16:45 - 17:45

The State of Boost: Boost Is Where You Become the Engineer You W... 09:00 - 10:00

C++ in the Age of AI: How Visual Studio Is Evolving 14:00 - 15:00

Leveraging LLM to Generate Unittests for Notifiers in Taskflow 15:15 - 16:15

Closing Plenary 16:15 - 18:00

The Next 20 Weeks of Systems Engineering 09:00 - 10:00

Incremental Modernization: Refactoring Legacy OOP Application Co... 10:30 - 11:30

The Real Story of C++26: Beyond the Headline Features 13:30 - 14:30

What 25 Days of Optimisations Taught Me About Compilers 14:45 - 15:45

C++ Views and Pipelines 09:00 - 10:00

Senders, Receivers, and Robots: Structured Concurrency for Auton... 10:30 - 11:30

Why Great C++ Libraries Fail (And How to Fix That) 13:30 - 14:30

Our Journey Toward a Fully Backward-Compatible, UB-Safe, ISO C++ 14:45 - 15:45

C++26: A Curated Tour of What's New 09:00 - 10:00

Back to Basics: Containers 10:30 - 11:30

Modernizing Legacy Codebases without Stopping the World 13:30 - 14:30

Concurrency for Modern CPUs - Lock-Free or Lock-based? 14:45 - 15:45

Code Like a Library Author: How to Write Better C++ Application... 09:00 - 10:00

IEEE 754 Decimals for C++: The Boost.Decimal Library 10:30 - 11:30

Implementing Async RAII 13:30 - 14:30

Escaping 1996: Meta-Modern C++ Techniques for Embedded Systems 14:45 - 15:45

“If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It”: From Profiling... 09:00 - 10:00

Memory Safety on a Microcontroller: What Embedded C++ Teams Can... 10:30 - 11:30

Back to Basics: Text Formatting 13:30 - 14:30

Back to Basics: const, constexpr, consteval 14:45 - 15:45

Safety in Numbers 09:00 - 10:00

Generating Language Bindings using C++ Reflection 10:30 - 11:30

Code You Didn't Write: Understanding Large and Unfamiliar Codeba... 13:30 - 14:30

Good boss, bad boss: how to be a good manager, and how to manage... 14:45 - 15:45