CppCon 2026: Full Schedule

10:30 MDT

Sunday September 13, 2026 10:30 - 16:00 MDT

The Red Rocks & Dinosaur Ridge Museum Field Trip. Details are here. A separate registration is required for this event. For those who've registered for this year's Field Trip, let's meet up in Rockies Square. Rockies Square is behind the Convention Coffee shop "the Cocoa Bean", convention center level 2. The tour bus will meet us outside of this area 11:15 - 11:30. Don't be late! We should return...
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Sunday September 13, 2026 10:30 - 16:00 MDT
Rockies Square

Social

17:30 MDT

Tee Shirt Night

Sunday September 13, 2026 17:30 - 20:00 MDT

Gaylord Rockies

Tee Shirt Night is our way to helping you get to know other conference attendees even before the conference has officially started. It works best if you brought a C++ (or CppCon) shirt with you. But even if you didn't you can join the fun. Here is how: Put on your C++ or CppCon shirt (or don't, if you didn't bring one). Go to any of the Gaylord Rockies eateries (except Hickory H Look for others...
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Sunday September 13, 2026 17:30 - 20:00 MDT
Gaylord Rockies

Social

20:00 MDT

Registration Reception

Sunday September 13, 2026 20:00 - 22:00 MDT

Colorado Pre-function

Come for the registration and stay for the reception.

Get your badge.

Stick around and get acquainted with new friends and reacquainted with old friends.

Sunday September 13, 2026 20:00 - 22:00 MDT
Colorado Pre-function

Business

08:00 MDT

Registration

Monday September 14, 2026 08:00 - 08:30 MDT

Monday September 14, 2026 08:00 - 08:30 MDT
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Business

08:30 MDT

Plenary

Monday September 14, 2026 08:30 - 10:15 MDT

Colorado A

TBA

Monday September 14, 2026 08:30 - 10:15 MDT
Colorado A

TBA

Tags Plenary

10:15 MDT

Conference Group Photo

Monday September 14, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 MDT

Colorado A

Meet outside of Aurora BCD immediately after the opening keynote to be in the conference photo. Be part of conference history!

Photo will be taken by CppCon's official conference photographer, Jonathan Phillips.

Monday September 14, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 MDT
Colorado A

Social

11:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Move Semantics

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT

Move semantics and perfect forwarding, introduced in C++11, are quite impactful features that still remain a source of confusion even for some experienced developers. This talk builds understanding from the ground up: what problem move semantics solves, how rvalue references enable it, and why the rules work the way they do. We start with the cost of unnecessary copies and how move constructors...
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Presenters

Ruslan Arutyunyan

Ruslan is a Senior Middleware Development Engineer specializing in parallel and threading runtimes. He joined Intel in 2017 and has experience in the autonomous driving domain, where he led the development of two libraries. Currently, Ruslan is the lead developer of oneAPI DPC++ library... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject Value Semantics
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11:00 MDT

From 20 Nanoseconds to One: Optimizing Bishop, Rook, and Queen Move Generation in a Chess Engine

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT

A chess engine must search millions of positions per second. Move generation is often a bottleneck. Generating moves for knights, kings, and pawns are computationally cheap (~1 nanosecond). However, rooks, bishops, and queens (aka "sliding pieces") present a unique challenge: their movement depends on the placement of other pieces. This makes on-demand generation too slow (20+ nanoseconds) and...
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Presenters

Aryan Naraghi

Aryan Naraghi is a Staff Software Engineer at Google specializing in distributed systems. Over the past 14 years, he has built critical infrastructure across Google (including BigQuery, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, and Vertex AI) and previously led data strategy as Head of Data Analytics... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
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GameDev

Subject Algorithms, Performance, Software Design
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11:00 MDT

Composing the Future: Async Workflows with std::execution

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT

Software development has now shifted decisively to a distributed, asynchronous paradigm, in which engineers must manage code that may be executing on parallel threads, or on a different machine. Many mainstream programming languages have adapted themselves to this new world. For example, JavaScript has promises and async/await, Python has asyncio, Rust offers zero-cost async/await with...
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Presenters

Alistair Fisher

Alistair Fisher is an Engineering Team Lead at Bloomberg. He works in the Multi-Asset Risk System (MARS) Pricing group in London, where he is focused on building scalable and reliable components for portfolio pricing and risk analysis. He is interested in the use of functional programming... Read More →

Ivy Zhang

Ivy is a Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP where she focuses on development of execution management system.

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
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General

Subject Concurrency, Future C++, Standard Library, Software Quality, Functional
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11:00 MDT

From Firmware to Screen: Real-Time Control, Simulation, and Visualization in C++23 With CUDA and Unreal Engine

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT

What does it take to build a real-time embedded control system in modern C++, simulate its environment, command it from a browser, and watch it fly in 3D — all from the same open source ecosystem? This talk follows that pipeline end-to-end: from a C++23 real-time framework that schedules deterministic control loops across POSIX hosts and bare-metal microcontrollers, to GPU-accelerated simulation...
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Presenters

Kevin Gomez

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
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Robotics & AI

Subject Concurrency, Embedded, Performance, Tooling/Utilities, Testing
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11:00 MDT

Same Bits Without Losing MIPS: Reproducible Numerics at Full Hardware Speed

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT

Floating point has a reputation for betrayal. Change the thread count, vector width, compiler flags, reduction tree, or target architecture, and the low bits can move. Parallel algorithms make this worse: the standard often specifies the operation, but not the numerical expression whose result must be reproduced. This talk asks a provocative question: what if reproducible numerics did not have to...
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Presenters

Andrew Drakeford

Director, UBS

Andrew Drakeford A Physics PhD who started developing C++ applications in the early 90s at British Telecom labs. For the last two decades, he has worked in finance developing efficient calculation libraries and trading systems in C++. His current focus is on making quant libraries... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
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Scientific Computing

Subject Algorithms, API Design, Concurrency, Future C++, Math/Analysis, Performance, Standard Library, Software Design, Tooling/Utilities, Safety, Software Quality, Testing
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11:00 MDT

Queue Discipline: A Deep Dive into Lock-Free SPSC, MPSC, SPMC, and MPMC Queues in Modern C++

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT

Queues are the backbone of concurrent systems — yet most C++ developers treat them as a black box. Pick the wrong queue topology, misplace an alignas, or use the wrong memory order, and you pay for it in microseconds of latency, invisible cache thrashing, or subtle correctness bugs that only manifest under load. This talk is a rigorous, bottom-up treatment of the four canonical concurrent queue...
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Presenters

Anmol Singhal

Gardening, My garden

Anmol has spent 5 years working as a quantitative developer at Goldman Sachs and IMC trading. Previously he completed his education from NYU and BITS Pilani. Most recently he developed multi threaded applications for trading application and improved software performance. He errs on... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
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Software Design

Subject Concurrency, Performance, Software Design
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14:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Templates

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

C++ templates are one of the language’s most powerful yet often misunderstood features. This talk walks the audience through the entire template landscape, starting with the basic syntax and definition, moving through function and class templates, and culminating in advanced techniques. Attendees will learn how template argument deduction works, why implicit requirements matter, and how...
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Presenters

Laurent Carlier

Lead embedded software engineer, Laurent Carlier Consulting

Laurent Carlier is a freelance embedded software consultant and Development Lead Embedded Software Engineer at KION, where he works on autonomous mobile robots and automated vehicles for warehouse logistics. He has over a decade of industry experience, having spent nine years at Nokia... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject Standard Library, Software Design
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14:00 MDT

Pointers to Power: Navigating Organizational Influence

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Getting a project approved, or killed, often has less to do with technical merit than with who actually holds the keys and what they need to hear. This talk draws on real case studies from library design fights, cross-functional infrastructure rewrites, and a couple of notable failures to show practical techniques: how to find the real decision-maker, how to break expert deadlock with a position...
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Presenters

Matt Kulukundis

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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Business & Career

Subject Software Quality
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14:00 MDT

Thinking Low Level, Writing High Level

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

An overview of contemporary hardware platforms and how software engineering and design practices and methodologies could help in building performant systems, with a particular focus on low level optimizations. Contrary to attempting direct low level software engineering for addressing performance specifics, this talk would focus on how higher level abstractions could and should be used, and how a...
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Presenters

Ignas Bagdonas

Principal Architect, Equinix

Ignas Bagdonas has been involved in network engineering field for over two decades, covering operations, deployment, design, architecture, development, and standardization aspects. He has worked on multiple large SP and enterprise networks worldwide, participated in many of the world's... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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Embedded

Subject Embedded, Performance, Software Design
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14:00 MDT

Component based or monolithic development for large C and C++ projects: Why not both?

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Developers of large C and C++ projects have to choose between two main development paradigms: component based development and monolith based development, each one with its own advantages and disadvantages. In component based development, projects can be split in multiple repositories that allow to do decouple development and releasing, which suits well for many organizations that split the work...
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Presenters

Diego Rodriguez-Losada Gonzalez

Conan co-founder, JFrog

Diego Rodriguez-Losada‘s passions are robotics and SW engineering and development. He has developed many years in C and C++ in the Industrial, Robotics and AI fields. Diego was also a University (tenure track) professor and robotics researcher for 8 years, till 2012, when he quit... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Tooling/Utilities
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14:00 MDT

Towards a complete contract-assertion facility for C++

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

C++26 introduces contract assertions: language-level constructs for expressing expectations about program correctness, optionally checking them at runtime, and configuring how violations are handled. However, what ships in C++26 is intentionally minimal — not the final destination, but a carefully designed foundation for a much more capable facility. In this talk, we begin with a brief...
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Presenters

Timur Doumler

Independent, Independent

Timur Doumler is the co-host of CppCast and an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee, where he is currently co-chair of SG21, the Contracts study group. Timur started his journey into C++ in computational astrophysics, where he was working on cosmological simulations. He... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Future C++, Safety
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14:00 MDT

Familiar C++ Patterns That Fail at Scale and the Design Shifts That Prevent Them

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Some of the most expensive C++ bugs are not caused by obscure language features. Instead, they emerge from code that looks reasonable: shared ownership that quietly extends lifetimes, singletons that become invisible dependencies, and performance-driven decisions that harden into architecture. This talk examines these common design-level failure patterns in large-scale C++ systems. We cover...
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Presenters

Divya Chandrasekar

Software Engineering Team Lead, Bloomberg

Divya Chandrasekar is an Engineering Leader at Bloomberg, where she leads FXGO Orders, a trading platform within FXGO. She holds a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida and has held multiple engineering roles at Bloomberg. With a strong technical... Read More →

Devpriya Dave

Devpriya Dave is a software engineer on the FX Options team at Bloomberg. While at Georgia Tech obtaining her master's degree, she helped design and build the system behind Georgia Tech's Machine Learning for Trading online course. She is passionate about STEM mentorship and is always... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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Software Design

Subject API Design, Software Design, Tooling/Utilities, Value Semantics, Safety, Software Quality
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15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Code Analysis

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

In the C++ ecosystem, we have powerful tools for understanding our programs before, during, and after they run. But compiler warnings, clang-tidy, cppcheck, sanitizers, debuggers, profilers, and coverage tools all answer different questions, and using them well starts with knowing which question you are asking. This talk introduces code analysis from first principles. We will compare static...
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Alexsandro Thomas

Senior Software Engineer, Zivid

Alexsandro Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer at Zivid AS specializing in C++ API development, build systems, and developer tooling. His interests include GPGPU, compiler technology, and low-level programming. In his free time he enjoys studying programming and natural languages... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject Tooling/Utilities, Safety, Software Quality, Testing
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15:15 MDT

Escaping the AST: A Data-Oriented, Lock-Free Parallel Compiler Architecture

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

The architecture of legacy compilers presents limitations for modern software development. As codebases scale, developers face increased compilation times. While language complexity is often cited, key architectural bottlenecks include pointer-chasing across deeply nested ASTs (cache misses), single-threaded type resolution, and significant thread-lock contention (RwLock) during parallel semantic...
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Aditya Kumar

Software Engineer, Google

I've been working on LLVM since 2012. I've contributed to modern compiler optimizations like GVNHoist, Hot Cold Splitting, Hexagon specific optimizations, clang static analyzer, libcxx, libstdc++, and graphite framework of gcc.

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Embedded

Subject API Design, Concurrency, Software Design, Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality
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15:15 MDT

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

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Building on the recent work of improving the quality of Sea of Thieves' codebase by upgrading from C++14 to C++20, this talk will focus on the work that has went into enabling warnings as errors on the game, and more. Rare will discuss the motivations behind wanting to crank up the warning level, and to flick the "warnings as errors" switch after 10 years of development in their multi-million...
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Keith Stockdale

Senior Software Engineer, Rare Ltd

Keith Stockdale is a Northern Irish senior software engineer who has been working on the Engine and Rendering teams at Rare Ltd for the last 8 years working on Sea of Thieves. At Rare, Keith's main areas of focus are involved in maintaining and creating general purpose simulations... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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GameDev

Subject Performance, Software Design, Tooling/Utilities, Safety, Software Quality, Testing
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15:15 MDT

std::simd Without Compromise: Making SIMD in C++26 and Beyond as Fast as Silicon Allows

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

For thirty years, SIMD has been the preserve of experts. Writing the fastest C++ has meant hand-written intrinsics, locking code to one architecture, and parallel implementations maintained across every instruction set you ship to. Auto-vectorization can help, but optimizers may give up in complex scenarios where iteration independence isn't obvious. C++26 changes that by putting SIMD in the hands...
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Presenters

Ruslan Arutyunyan

Daniel Towner

Principal Software Engineer, Intel

Dr Daniel Towner is a Principal Systems Engineer at Intel, where he has spent the last two decades helping telecoms software extract every last cycle from modern hardware. With 25 years in the industry behind him, including 12 years as a GCC port maintainer, he now splits his time... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject Concurrency, Future C++, Performance, Standard Library
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15:15 MDT

Capability Routing Grid: From Decoupled Plugins to the Hardware Ceiling

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

For C++ developers building modular applications or performance-critical loops, modern architecture often forces a painful compromise: you either build heavily decoupled systems that thrash the CPU cache, or you write rigid, tightly coupled code. Distributed builds mask the compile-time symptom — but the underlying coupling bleeds into the runtime hot path. This talk presents the Capability...
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Presenters

Cyril TISSIER

Cyril Tissier is a Tech Lead at Ubisoft. Having joined the Montreuil studio in January 2014, he moved to the Annecy team in 2021. As a metaprogramming expert and the creator of an internal Advanced C++ training program, his primary goal has always been straightforward: to make the... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Software Design

Subject API Design, Generic/Metaprogramming, Performance, Software Design
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15:15 MDT

Catching Leaks: How to stop a C++ program at the exact instruction that leaks memory

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Memory leaks are very hard to treat. We have reliable tools like valgrind or AddressSanitizer to tell us whether or not an application has leaked memory, but current tools cannot tell us where the leak happens (they can tell us where the allocation happened,which is not the same). I show that it is possible to run an analysis that is equivalent to running a garbage detection pass after every...
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Henning Meyer

Henning is a C++ software developer with ten years of experience ranging from small start-ups to large enterprises. He has PhD in Mathematics from the University from Kaiserslautern and is currently working on new debugging tools for C++.

Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Tooling/Utilities, Safety, Software Quality, Testing
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16:45 MDT

Back to Basics: Lambdas, Function Objects, and std::function

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

C++ gives us at least four different ways to pass "a thing that can be called" from one piece of code to another: function pointers, function objects, lambdas, and type-erased wrappers like std::function . Modern C++ has added more — generic lambdas, deducing-this lambdas, std::move_only_function , and a healthy ecosystem of concept-constrained callable parameters. Each of these has a job it is...
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Presenters

Roth Michaels

Principal Software Engineer, Native Instruments

Roth Michaels is a Principal Software Engineer at Native Instruments, an industry leader in real-time audio software for music production and broadcast/film post-production. In his current role he is involved with software architecture and bringing together three merged engineering... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject Standard Library
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16:45 MDT

Ensuring Code Quality in the Age of AI : More Code, Less Engineering!

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Was generating lines of code / upping the commit count the major impediment to delivering stable production ready software? AI-assisted development has lowered the barrier to churn out code, helped engineers move faster in unfamiliar codebases, and made legacy systems easier to approach. however increased code output does not automatically mean better delivery of more reliable code. ...
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Presenters

Peter Muldoon

Engineering Lead, Bloomberg

Pete Muldoon has been using C++ since 1991. Pete has worked in Ireland, England and the USA and is currently employed by Bloomberg. A consultant for over 20 years prior to joining Bloomberg, Peter has worked on a broad range of projects and code bases in a large number of companies... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Business & Career

Subject Software Design, Software Quality, Testing
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16:45 MDT

AEMBER: Modern Embedded C++ Without the Chaos

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Building embedded systems wastes time on infrastructure instead of features. Before running application logic, developers lose hours bootstrapping init systems, wiring services, debugging startup failures, and fighting tooling never designed for constrained or early-boot environments. AEMBER is a developer-first PID1 (init system) that eliminates this overhead by providing a modern C++ runtime for...
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Presenters

Arian Ajdari

Software Engineer, Bertrandt GmbH

Arian Ajdari is a Software Engineer working on cutting-edge applications in the field of smart home appliances. His daily work includes discussions with clients, gathering requirements, building use-cases and implementing different solutions using C++. Arian possesses a deep understanding... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Embedded

Subject Embedded, Future C++, Performance, Software Design, Tooling/Utilities, Safety, Security, Software Quality, Testing
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16:45 MDT

You’re absolutely wrong! How to get agents to solve complex problems with complex code.

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Modern coding agents are incredible, but they still struggle with the kind of large, unstructured codebases that are common in C++. There are several techniques and tools that can make them perform much better. Here we show examples and demos of how to get your agent to work better with complex code. The focus is on providing an overview on current techniques and how we’ve found they work best....
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Presenters

Greg Law

CEO, Undo.io

Greg is co-founder and CEO at Undo. He is a programmer at heart, but likes to keep one foot in the software world and one in the business world. Greg finds it particularly rewarding to turn innovative software technology into a real business. Greg has over 25 years' experience in... Read More →

Mark Williamson

CTO, Undo

I went through Cambridge University, UK and got drawn into the local startup ecosystem. I've been at Undo.io building time travel debuggers for Linux C++ developers for the past 11 years, eventually landing in my current role as CTO.

Right now I'm cramming AI-related knowledge i... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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General

Subject Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality
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16:45 MDT

Using Type Erasure to Extend APIs You Don't Own: A Case Study From Audio Plugin Development

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Application developers sometimes hit a limitation of a 3rd-party library or framework. The Type Erasure design pattern can help us overcome such limitations without the need to change the 3rd-party API. Type Erasure is a relatively complex design pattern that allows us to treat a set of unrelated classes as if they shared a common base class, while preserving value semantics. The downside is...
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Jan Wilczek

Audio Programming Consultant & Coach, WolfSound

I am an audio programming consultant and educator, the creator of TheWolfSound.com blog and YouTube channel dedicated to audio programming. I also host the WolfTalk podcast, where I interview developers and researchers from the audio industry.
I created "DSP Pro," an online course... Read More →

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Software Design

Subject API Design, Generic/Metaprogramming, Software Design, Value Semantics
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16:45 MDT

My DAG Ate All My Cores: Identifying and Resolving Build Graph Bottlenecks

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Every C++ developer runs their build system dozens of times a day, yet few think about what it actually computes. Underneath every cmake --build or ninja invocation lies a directed acyclic graph, a DAG of dependencies that determines what gets rebuilt, in what order, and how much parallelism is available. When builds are slow, when incremental rebuilds trigger more work than expected, or when CI...
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Presenters

Florent Castelli

Software Engineer, EngFlow

Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Software Design, Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality
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18:30 MDT

HRT Happy Hour

Monday September 14, 2026 18:30 - 20:30 MDT

Mountain Pass Sports Bar

HRT is excited to be back at CppCon again this year! We invite you to attend our Networking Social.

Monday September 14, 2026 18:30 - 20:30 MDT
Mountain Pass Sports Bar

Social

20:30 MDT

Committee Fireside Chat

Monday September 14, 2026 20:30 - 22:00 MDT

Colorado A

Monday September 14, 2026 20:30 - 22:00 MDT
Colorado A

Social

09:00 MDT

Back to Basics: std::unordered_map

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

In modern C++, std::unordered_map is the de facto #2 container. Its dominance signifies a fundamental shift in application design: the performance-critical need for O(1) average-case key-value lookups. Join as we move beyond "just use a hash map" and explore the critical, real-world implications of this choice. We'll start by benchmarking the classic std::map (red-black tree) against...
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Presenters

Kevin Carpenter

Software Engineering Manager, EPX

Kevin Carpenter, an experienced Software Engineer, excels in crafting high-availability C++ solutions for Linux and Windows, with expertise in transaction software, financial modelling, and system integration. As a Software Engineering Manager, he ensures secure, high-speed credit... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject Algorithms, Standard Library
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09:00 MDT

Implementing Flat Containers: Design and Optimisations in libc++'s flat_{set, map}

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

This talk presents some design choices, compromises, and optimisations of the implementations of std::flat map and std::flat set. It will cover a brief design history of the original paper regarding the class layout, libc++'s best effort to provide strong exception guarantee on those containers, compromise on the iterator choices between SCARY and more strongly typed, some optimisations on...
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Presenters

Hui Xie

Senior Software Developer, QRT

Hui Xie is a C++ software developer at Qube Research and Technologies in the finance industry. He is a member of the standard committee WG21 and the UK national body BSI. He usually contributes to the ranges study group SG9. He is also an active contributor to libc++, the clang's... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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General

Subject Performance, Standard Library, Software Design
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09:00 MDT

Processor Design and C++ Memory Models

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

std::atomic and std::memory_order are utterly opaque abstractions. It feels like they were put in place to hide some monstrosity that is too complex for mortals to comprehend, and inevitably when trying to understand the underlying reality, the explanations end with 'the processor does weird things' and 'think about it as if...'. Well, 'think about it as if' no more. In this talk we'll present...
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Presenters

Ofek Shilon

Senior Developer, Speedata

A Mathematics MA by training, but a 20Y C++ developer, writer and speaker in both the Linux and MS universes. Member of the maintainers team of Compiler-Explorer (==godbolt). Fascinated by compilers, debuggers and pretty much anything low level. Fiercely hated by his cat for no apparent... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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General

Subject Concurrency, Performance
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09:00 MDT

Scaling Robotics to 200 Developers: Flexible C++ Architectures for Kinematics, Dynamics, Simulation & Control

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

Large-scale robotics organizations operate diverse fleets of manipulators — 4-DOF arms on rails, 6-DOF standard manipulators on pedestals and fully mobile manipulators — each with different kinematics, hardware vendors, and software teams and researchers. And engineers and researchers are opinionated. As a team eventually you have one goal. Re-use as many abstractions; ideas and algorithms...
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Presenters

Carl Saldanha

Carl Saldanha, is a Senior Robotics Engineer at Amazon.com focused on Manipulation at Scale

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Robotics & AI

Subject Algorithms, API Design, Software Design
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09:00 MDT

Death by a Thousand Tape Entries: Low-Overhead Automatic Differentiation for Scientific and Financial C++

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

Reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) computes exact gradients with respect to thousands of inputs in roughly the time of a single function evaluation. If you write numerical C++ for finance, scientific computing, or ML and you care about performance, this talk will show you where AD overhead actually comes from and what to do about it. A straightforward operator-overloading implementation...
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Presenters

Jorg Lotze

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Scientific Computing

Subject Performance
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09:00 MDT

What's New for C++ in Visual Studio Code: C++ and AI Tooling for Your Build, Your Code, Your Workflow

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

Modern C++ development spans platforms, build systems, and increasingly complex project structures. In this landscape, Visual Studio Code has carved out its distinct position as a lightweight, extensible editor that works where you do, with first-class extensions built on decades of C++ language services and build system integration. This year's update deepens both of those foundations and opens...
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Presenters

Sinem Akinci

Sinem Akinci graduated from the University of Michigan with a focus in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science. She now is the Product Manager at Microsoft working on Cross-platform and CMake developer experiences in Visual Studio and VS Code

Ben McMorran

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Ben McMorran studied computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Since graduating, Ben has worked on C++ developer tooling at Microsoft as a Principal Software Engineer with a recent focus on AI-powered developer experiences.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Tooling/Utilities, Functional
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10:30 MDT

Plenary

Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT

Colorado A

TBA

Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado A

TBA

Tags Plenary

14:00 MDT

What Are We Synchronizing?

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Atomic memory ordering is often taught operationally: Use acquire here, release there, and perhaps add a fence “to be safe.” This approach tends to produce cargo-cult synchronization, where atomic operations are selected mechanically without a clear understanding of what information is actually being propagated between threads. In practice, memory ordering is not about memorizing enum values,...
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Presenters

Robert Leahy

Robert Leahy is a C++ systems engineer specializing in the design of C++ libraries and high-performance infrastructure. Over the past decade he has built latency-sensitive financial systems, contributed to patented database technology, and developed production software for processing... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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Embedded

Subject Concurrency, Embedded, Performance
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14:00 MDT

Inside a Small Game Engine: An Architecture Tour in Modern C++

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

According to VGInsights, about 10% of games released on Steam in 2024 used a custom engine, but those games represent 41% of units sold. Most "how an engine works" talks come from the AAA end of that distribution. This one comes from the other end of that distribution: a teaching-scale engine, where every system has to be small enough to understand from first principles. The problems are the same...
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Presenters

Elias Farhan

Head of Department, SAE Institute Geneva

Elias Farhan is the head of the Games Programming department at SAE Institute Genève, as well as founder of the RGB Games Programming Conference.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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GameDev

Subject API Design, Concurrency, Performance, Standard Library
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14:00 MDT

Breaking the Speed Limit: Building a High-Throughput Hashing Engine With C++26

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Modern storage hardware has evolved at a breakneck pace. PCIe Gen 5 NVMe drives can push data at 10 GB/s, yet standard C++ file abstractions often leave them starving for data. Many developers think they need to abandon portability in favor of unmaintainable, OS-specific kernel bypasses to achieve the throughput necessary to saturate these drives. This session is for developers writing...
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Presenters

Yannic Staudt

co-founder, tipi.build

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Algorithms, Concurrency, Performance, Standard Library, Software Design, Tooling/Utilities
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14:00 MDT

Rule of 0,1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10?

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

As of C++11 there are 6 special member functions that the compiler will generate for us if we don't do anything to get in the way. But there are many other member functions, in the form of comparison operators, that we can =default explicitly Which of these should we =default? How do we help the compiler, or stay out of its way? How many do we need to implement? When can you trust the...
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Presenters

Jason Turner

Sole Proprietor, Jason Turner

Jason is host of the YouTube channel C++Weekly, co-host emeritus of the podcast CppCast, author of C++ Best Practices, and author of the first casual puzzle books designed to teach C++ fundamentals while having fun!

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Software Design, Software Quality
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14:00 MDT

Running Compiler Explorer in 2026: Sandboxes, Storage, and Strangers' Code

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Compiler Explorer looks simple: type code, get assembly. Underneath: a fleet of sandboxed machines running hundreds of compilers across dozens of languages, terabytes of binaries to keep current, and the ongoing problem of executing arbitrary code from internet strangers. A lot has changed in the 14 years that the site has been around: The sandboxing layers that let it run other people's code...
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Presenters

Matt Godbolt

Programmer and sometime verb, Compiler Explorer

Matt Godbolt is the creator of the Compiler Explorer website. He is passionate about writing efficient code. He has previously worked at a trading firm, on mobile apps at Google, run his own C++ tools company and spent more than a decade making console games. When he's not hacking... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Tooling/Utilities
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14:00 MDT

C++ at Scale

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

At scale, writing C++ becomes a different engineering discipline. Problems that appear secondary in smaller systems — dependency boundaries, build graph stability, toolchain inconsistencies, integration latency, ownership, and deployability — become first-order constraints. In production HFT, a single core infrastructure repository may contain 26+ million lines of C++ across 100K files,...
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Presenters

Radoslav Zlatev

Tower Research Capital

Radoslav Zlatev is a Principal Engineer and technical leader at Tower Research Capital, where he works across a wide range of problems spanning quantitative model optimization, ultra-low-latency system architecture, and large-scale software lifecycle management. Prior to Tower, he... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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Software Design

Subject Software Design
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15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: C++20 Concepts

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

In this talk we will explore "Concepts," a powerful feature for expressing template requirements added in C++20. Participants will learn how concepts improve code readability, provide clearer compiler diagnostics, and help enforce correct usage of templates and function overloading. Through simple, hands-on examples, we will explore the syntax, common use cases, and best practices for integrating...
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Presenters

Amir Kirsh

Teacher, Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo

Amir Kirsh is a C++ lecturer at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo and Tel-Aviv University, previously the Chief Programmer at Comverse, after being CTO and VP R&D at a startup acquired by Comverse. Amir is also co-organizer of the annual Core C++ conference and the Core C++ meetup... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject API Design, Generic/Metaprogramming, Software Design
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15:15 MDT

Hacking and Securing C++

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

This session dives deep into the world of vulnerabilities from a C++ developer's perspective. Using a simple embedded device as the playground, where the memory model is stripped to the bare essentials, attendees will explore how classic attacks like buffer overflows can be used to hijack control flow, inject code, and manipulate the stack. Everyone has heard the warnings about buffer overflows,...
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Presenters

Marcell Juhasz

Embedded Software Developer, Zühlke Group

Marcell Juhasz is an embedded software developer at Zühlke Engineering, a global innovation service provider that transforms ideas into new business models by developing cutting-edge services and products. At Zühlke, Marcell leverages his expertise in C++ and modern technologies... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Embedded

Subject Embedded, Software Design, Security
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15:15 MDT

C++ in an AI World

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Last year, the title of this talk would have been "AI in a C++ World." That it isn't anymore tells you most of what changed. A year ago, AI was the visitor we were evaluating. Now, it is the room we work inside, and the question for C++ programmers is no longer whether to take the technology seriously but how to keep doing serious work in its presence. Another year of using these tools in...
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Presenters

Jody Hagins

Director, LSEG / MayStreet

Jody Hagins has been using C++ for the better part of four decades. He remains amazed at how much he does not know after all those years. He has spent most of that time designing and building systems in C++, for use in the high frequency trading space.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject Tooling/Utilities
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15:15 MDT

Lock-Free Timer Scheduling With C++ Atomics

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Applications that present rapidly changing market data to human users face a practical challenge: updates may arrive thousands of times per second, but humans only benefit from periodic refreshes. Efficiently coalescing and scheduling that work without overwhelming CPU resources becomes a concurrency problem rather than simply a rendering problem. This talk demonstrates how modern C++ atomics...
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Presenters

Maxim Gurschi

Maxim Gurschi is a senior software engineer on the FXGO team at Bloomberg, where he is focused on building scalable, high-performance trading systems for electronic foreign exchange trading. In this role, he explores practical applications of modern C++ (20 and above) in latency-sensitive... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject Algorithms, API Design, Concurrency, Performance, Software Design
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15:15 MDT

Compile-Time Polymorphism for Runtime-Flexible Systems: Lessons from OpenJDK

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Your system has interchangeable strategies chosen at runtime, but the hot path runs millions of times per second. Runtime polymorphism has virtual dispatch overhead. Templates give you performance but lock you at compile time. This workshop shows how to leverage inheritance for extensibility while avoiding vtable overhead, using a layered architecture of compile-time patterns. We'll build them...
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Presenters

Shubhankar Gambhir

Software engineer, Azul systems

Shubhankar Gambhir is a Software Development Engineer at Azul Systems, where he works on JVM runtime efficiency and warmup technologies. Previously, he contributed to the garbage collector, with a focus on performance and scalability. He enjoys building C++ prototypes to explore systems... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Software Design

Subject API Design, Generic/Metaprogramming, Performance, Software Design
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15:15 MDT

Mock Any Function in C++ Without Changing a Single Line of Code

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

In many languages, you can mock almost anything. Python has unittest.mock, Java has Mockito and PowerMock, and C# has Moq. In C++, you can usually mock only what was designed to be mockable — and little else. Want to mock a free function? Wrap it in an interface. A static method? Refactor to a template. A non-virtual member? Redesign the class hierarchy. The cost is real: developers either shape...
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Presenters

Ilya Ermakov

Ilya Ermakov graduated from Vanderbilt University with a major in Computer Science. Since graduating, Ilya has worked at Bloomberg where he is now a Software Engineer working on Distributed Systems and C++ tooling.

Brian Rudo-Hutt

Brian Rudo-Hutt is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg and organizes engineering-wide initiatives to improve testing, safety, and software maturity. Brian holds Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering degrees from Cornell University and lives with his family in... Read More →

Ruifeng Zhang

Bloomberg LP

Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Software Design, Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality, Testing
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16:45 MDT

Back to Basics: Function Overloading

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Modern programming languages offer powerful tools for creating intuitive, expressive code, but few are as frequently debated as function and operator overloading. While these features allow developers to write code that mimics natural mathematical notation, such as A+B for complex numbers or vectors, they also introduce significant risks of ambiguity, hidden performance costs, and unintuitive...
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Presenters

chris ryan

Classically trained in hardware and software engineering. Well experienced in Modern C++ and Classic ‘C’ with extremely large problem spaces and Firmware on Embedded devices. Believes strongly in reducing complexity and teaching the core language mechanisms and the fundamentals... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Back to Basics

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16:45 MDT

The Value of Idiomatic Code

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Many of the problems you encounter in C++ have already been solved, just not by anyone you talk to regularly. Idioms encode best practices into recognizable patterns that help reduce cognitive load, convey intent, and eliminate entire categories of bugs. However, C++ isn’t a single community. It is a language spoken across many industries, including, but not limited to: scientific computing,...
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Presenters

John Pavan

Team Lead, Bloomberg LP

John Pavan is an Engineering Team Lead at Bloomberg. He has been developing software for more than 25 years. His primary interests are in distributed systems, such as service-oriented and microservice architectures, and he has most recently been writing software using C++ and Python... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Business & Career

Subject Software Design
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16:45 MDT

Graphics Programming with SDL 3 Part 2

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Last year I introduced the SDL3 library which provides a solution for building games and graphical applications on multiple platforms. In this talk, we will continue our journey into SDL3, which newly includes the ability to write shaders within the built-in 2D API. My goal is to get you up and running fast by building out a small game application. Throughout the talk I will show how to build a...
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Presenters

Mike Shah

Professor / (occasional) 3D Graphics Engineer

Mike Shah is currently a teaching faculty at Yale University with primary teaching interests in computer systems, computer graphics, and game engines. Mike's research interests are related to performance engineering (dynamic analysis), software visualization, and computer graphics... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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GameDev

Subject Software Design
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16:45 MDT

Can I memcpy This Type Across a Boundary? Verifying Object Representation at Compile Time With C++26 Reflection

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Native C++ types often become the format for bytes that cross a boundary: shared-memory IPC, plugin interfaces, persistent storage, or software built for more than one ABI. At that point the type is no longer just an implementation detail; it is part of a binary contract. trivially_copyable , sizeof , and code review help, but they do not answer the two questions that matter: may this type be...
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Presenters

Fanchen Su

Tech Lead, NetEase Games

Fanchen Su is a game research & development expert and team leader. He has over 20 years of experience in designing, writing, and maintaining C++ code. His main areas of interest and expertise are modern C++, code performance, low latency, and maintainability. He graduated from Wuhan... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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General

Subject Future C++, Generic/Metaprogramming, Safety, Software Quality
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16:45 MDT

Practical HPC — Forcing the Compiler's Hand with Modern C++

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Practical HPC — Forcing the Compiler's Hand with Modern C++ Achieving near-peak FLOPs on modern CPUs requires exploiting SIMD, register files, and cache hierarchies — yet the levers that matter most (loop unrolling, vectorization width, tile sizes, register tiling) are largely outside the programmer's direct control. Autovectorization is fragile, #pragma unroll is advisory and non-portable,...
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Presenters

Marco Barbone

Software Engineer, Simons Foundation

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Scientific Computing

Subject Generic/Metaprogramming, Performance, Software Quality
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16:45 MDT

From User to Contributor: Fixing Bugs and Adding Features in Clang

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Clang is the C++ compiler used by hundreds of millions of developers every day, yet most of those developers have never looked inside it. The codebase can feel intimidating, with millions of lines of C++, an unfamiliar architecture, and a review process with its own customs. But once you know the map, contributing is surprisingly accessible. This session is a live, code-first walkthrough of the...
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Presenters

Matheus Izvekov

I am a compiler engineer working on Clang, employed by the C++ Alliance.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Tooling/Utilities
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18:30 MDT

Citadel Reception

Tuesday September 15, 2026 18:30 - 20:30 MDT

Tuesday September 15, 2026 18:30 - 20:30 MDT
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Social

20:30 MDT

C++: The Documentary

Tuesday September 15, 2026 20:30 - 22:00 MDT

Tuesday September 15, 2026 20:30 - 22:00 MDT
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Social

09:00 MDT

Deterministic Storage: Building a Predictable Embedded File System in Modern C++

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

Embedded systems often operate under strict timing and reliability constraints, yet most existing file systems prioritize throughput and flexibility over predictability. This mismatch can lead to non-deterministic behavior, unbounded latency, and difficult-to-debug failures in resource-constrained environments. In resource-constrained environments such as automotive control units and aerospace...
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Presenters

Elbert Dockery

Elbert Dockery is a software engineer, worked at several aerospace and defense companies as well as small startups. He has experience with systems software as well embedded systems.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Embedded

Subject Embedded, Performance, Software Design, Safety
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09:00 MDT

Turbocharging Native Code Performance: Compiler Optimizations, Profile-guided Optimizations, and Beyond

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

Making native code fast is a team sport: efficient algorithms, high-performance libraries, memory-conscious design, and modern hardware all play a role. But the critical link between your code and the hardware it runs on is the optimizing compiler. This talk explores new & improved compiler optimizations in Visual Studio 2026, and how these improve the performance of existing C++ code with...
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Presenters

Eric Brumer

Eric is an engineering manager on the Microsoft C++ Team, working on the compiler back-end.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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GameDev

Subject Performance, Tooling/Utilities
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09:00 MDT

Awaiters and Awaitables

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

C++20 coroutines come with a reputation for complexity — and writing your own coroutine return type deserves that reputation. But here is the good news: you probably don't have to. With std::generator in C++23, high-quality libraries like Asio and cppcoro today, and std::task on its way in C++26, most developers can simply write co_await and move on. There is one gap, however. Sooner or later,...
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Presenters

Mateusz Pusz

C++ Trainer | Principal Engineer, Train IT | Epam Systems

A software architect, principal engineer, and security champion with over 20 years of experience designing, writing, and maintaining C++ code for fun and a living. A trainer with over 15 years of C++ teaching experience, a consultant, a conference speaker, and an evangelist. His main... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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General

Subject API Design, Concurrency, Performance, Software Design
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09:00 MDT

What can C++26 reflection do for you?: A practical experiment in using reflection with an emphasis on binary protocol support

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

How far can C++26 reflection take us? What are some techniques, gotchas, limitations and workarounds? How would reflection help write code that interacts with bespoke binary data formats? Come along as we explore a practical example together. This talk will review advice gleaned from applying C++26 reflection to binary (structs on a wire) protocol handling. This type of protocol exists all...
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Presenters

Andy Webber

Technologist, SIG

My name is Andy Webber and I work at SIG which is a financial trading company near Philadelphia, PA. I started learning C++ in high school and I’ve been hooked ever since. I especially enjoy attempting to understand the full stack from the hardware up through high-level softw... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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General

Subject Future C++, Generic/Metaprogramming, Software Design
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09:00 MDT

CUDA Tile C++: Practical Automatic Parallelization for the GPU

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

CUDA Tile C++ is a novel C++ DSL and compiler that automatically parallelizes array operations across GPU threads while presenting a single logical thread to the programmer. In CUDA Tile C++, parallelism is expressed through SIMD-style operations on arrays of data called "tiles" while memory accesses are written using structured memory abstractions. The compiler analyzes the tile and memory...
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Presenters

Ezra Stein

Ezra Stein is a Senior Compiler Engineer working on NVIDIA's CUDA C++ Frontend team. Since joining the company in 2025, Ezra has focused primarily on the design and implementation of CUDA Tile C++. Prior to working at NVIDIA, Ezra spent 5 years developing MATLAB to C++ source-to-source... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Scientific Computing

Subject Concurrency, Performance
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09:00 MDT

Ranges Without Compromise: Designing for Simplicity, Performance, and Composability

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

Range views enable a “no raw loops” style of programming — not as a matter of taste, but as a pragmatic way to reuse well-tested algorithms to write code faster, express intent clearly, and avoid common bugs. In practice, however, developers often run into issues that may lead them to abandon ranges altogether: unintuitive behavior and surprising limitations slower compilation and...
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Presenters

Oleksandr Bacherikov

Software Engineer

Oleksandr Bacherikov is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building low-latency machine learning and computer vision systems for mobile devices and AR glasses. He is particularly interested in designing abstractions that make complex algorithms simple, efficient... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Software Design

Subject Algorithms, API Design, Performance
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10:30 MDT

Plenary

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT

Colorado A

TBA

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado A

TBA

Tags Plenary

14:00 MDT

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

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

C++ is used in many fields. One that sticks out is the embedded domain. You're often working with tight constraints. Writing software is challenging and fun at the same time. What has C++ done to support this field? What new options do you have to avoid undefined behavior and write more efficient and robust code? In this talk, I will present various library elements as well as language...
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Presenters

Andreas Fertig

Andreas Fertig is an expert C++ trainer and consultant who delivers engaging and impactful training sessions, both on-site and remotely, to teams around the globe. As an active member of the C++ standardization committee, Andreas contributes directly to shaping the future of the language... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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Embedded

Subject Embedded, Safety
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14:00 MDT

In Pursuit of a 6,000 FPS Game Boy Emulator

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

How far can modern C++ push an emulator before performance stops being a C++ problem and becomes a systems problem? This talk is the final part of a CppCon trilogy about building an extremely fast Game Boy emulator in modern C++, moving from high-performance emulation techniques to the limits imposed by hardware, compilers, and CPU architecture. The target is intentionally absurd but not...
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Presenters

Tom Tesch

Lecturer, DAE - Howest

Tom is currently a senior lecturer for the Bachelor in Digital Arts and Entertainment at Howest University of Applied Sciences, where he is on a mission to inspire the next generation of game developers. His expertise revolves around teaching C++, algorithms, and the core principles... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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GameDev

Subject Embedded, Generic/Metaprogramming, Performance, Software Design
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14:00 MDT

Interesting Upcoming Low-Latency, Networking, Concurrency, and Parallelism Features from Kona 2025, Croydon 2026, and Brno 2026

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

This talk is the 2026 edition of our series that highlights low-latency, networking, parallelism, and concurrency proposals to the C++ Standards Committee, especially those discussed in the Kona 2025, Croydon 2026, and Brno 2026 meetings. This talk from the Concurrency TS2 Editors, DG and SG14/19 chair will describe the following features and show how they can be used. It will also give their...
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Presenters

Paul E. McKenney

Software Engineer, Facebook

Paul E. McKenney has been coding for almost four decades, more than half of that on parallel hardware, where his work has earned him a reputation among some as a flaming heretic. Paul maintains the RCU implementation within the Linux kernel, where the variety of workloads present... Read More →

Maged Michael

Staff Software Engineer, Category Labs

Maged Michael is the inventor of several concurrent algorithms including hazard pointers, lock-free allocation, and multiple concurrent data structure algorithms. His code and algorithms are widely-used in standard libraries and production. His 2002 paper on hazard pointers received... Read More →

Michael Wong

CTO, Distinguished Engineer, YetiWare

Michael Wong is the CTO of YetiWare an AI company, and was a Distinguished Engineer/VP of R&D at Codeplay/Intel. He is a current Director and VP of ISOCPP, Chair of the C++ Direction Group, and a 25 year senior member of the C++ Standards Committee with more than 15 years of experience... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Concurrency, Future C++, Performance, Standard Library
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14:00 MDT

The Ghost in the Heap: Defeating a Memory Thief

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

In the C++ world, it is often assumed that proper object lifetime management ensures a memory footprint that scales with an application’s actual needs. However, long-running systems are frequently sabotaged by heap pinning: a phenomenon in which Resident Set Size (RSS) refuses to shrink even after significant deallocations. This results in a critical, 'invisible' overhead that defies standard...
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Presenters

Nicolas Arroyo

Software Architect, Bloomberg

Nicolas Arroyo has spent two decades crafting C++ in high-stakes environments, spanning VoIP, embedded systems, distributed systems, and low-latency financial infrastructure. Currently, he specializes in building performance-analysis tooling, system-level benchmarking, and eliminating... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Performance, Software Design, Software Quality
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14:00 MDT

Refactoring Techniques and Strategies (a Tale in Three Acts)

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Refactoring is defined as "the process of changing a software system in a way that does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure", and is a core skill and process in modern software development. From "cleaning up a little mess" to handling legacy code to improving testability to completely changing architecture, refactoring is the process to achieve that...
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Presenters

Dave Steffen

Principal Software Engineer, SciTec Inc

Dave Steffen completed his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Colorado State University in 2003, and promptly changed course for a career in software engineering. He has worked primarily in defence and aerospace, and is currently a technical lead at SciTec Inc.'s Boulder office. For... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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Software Design

Subject Software Design, Software Quality
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14:00 MDT

Automatic Splitting of Translation Units: Compiler-Agnostic Compiler Frontend Parallelization

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

AI agents are accelerating code generation at an unprecedented pace, yet C++ file is still compiled as a monolithic translation unit, meaning a many-core machine often cannot rebuild a template-heavy file much faster than a single core. Header-heavy designs, inline functions, and templates compound the problem: the same bodies are parsed repeatedly, and small edits can invalidate an entire...
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Presenters

Damien Buhl

co-founder, tipi.build

Damien (aka daminetreg), co-founder tipi.build by EngFlow is an enthusiast C++ developer. Opensource entrepreneur, CppCon Speaker, GameMaker.fr community founder, Qt for Android contributor and Boost.Fusion maintainer since 2014.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Performance, Tooling/Utilities
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15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Computer Systems

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Every software engineer needs to understand the fundamentals of how your computer works. My mantra for teaching computer systems is 'no more magic', and in this talk I'll do my best to dispel what feels like 'magic' in our hardware in a single hour. In this talk, we will investigate '3' pictures of the 'the compilation process', 'program stack', and a 'cpu' to understand how these components work...
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Presenters

Mike Shah

Professor / (occasional) 3D Graphics Engineer

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject Software Design
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15:15 MDT

Readable Async Workflows in Modern C++: Coroutines Meet std::expected

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

What makes an async workflow readable? Not just linear control flow — you also need to see where errors go, what each step depends on, and how failures compose. This talk takes a single production workflow — multiple async RPC calls with conditional branching, parallel fan-out, and partial-failure handling — and shows it implemented in three paradigms: callbacks with thread pools, a workflow...
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Presenters

Futong Liu

Futong Liu is a software engineer at Bloomberg, where he works on distributed backend systems for financial infrastructure, with a focus on trading systems built in modern C++. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from EPFL. His work spans asynchronous programming, service... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject API Design, Concurrency, Standard Library, Software Design, Software Quality, Functional
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15:15 MDT

Writing High Performance Parsers Using State Machines

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Starting from the simple objective of writing an optimized lexer we will grapple with their fundamental performance factor: branch prediction. We will investigate how lookup tables can improve (or hurt) the CPUs prediction capabilities with some unexpected results. Over time our design evolves by combining parsing and lexing into a single step in a way that is as fast as just a standalone lexer. A...
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Torben Thaysen

Torben Thaysen was passionate about software from a young age with his earliest C++ experiments dating back over 10 years. After acquiring his masters degree in physics he returned to his passion and became a C++ developer currently with 2 years experience under his belt. Now Torben... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject Algorithms, Performance
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15:15 MDT

You Shall Not Pass*!

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Sean Parent's "no raw pointers" guideline is often misunderstood as "avoid T* , use smart pointers instead", even though Sean explicitly included smart pointers in his definition of a raw pointer: "anything with implied ownership and reference semantics". This talk presents a refinement of that guideline: Pointers - smart or not - shall not appear in function signatures, neither as argument...
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Presenters

Daniel Pfeifer

Senior Software Engineer, Apple

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject API Design, Standard Library, Value Semantics
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15:15 MDT

AI is UB with Better PR

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

C++ runs the world’s systems, and with that comes a responsibility for safety and stability. Avoiding AI entirely gives up on incredible potential benefits, but using AI without guardrails poses significant risks to our critical systems. How does AI fit into this world? This talk examines effective and ineffective approaches to using AI in systems that cannot afford “slop.” We will explore...
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Presenters

Matt Kulukundis

Andy Soffer

Andy Soffer is a lapsed mathematician turned software engineer. He spent eight years at Google, before founding BrontoSource in late 2024. His time at Google culminated in leading the C++ Core Libraries team (responsible for Abseil and GoogleTest) and the C++ Large Scale Refactoring... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Robotics & AI

Subject Software Design, Tooling/Utilities, Safety, Security, Software Quality, Testing
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15:15 MDT

Works on My Machine, Works in CI: Treating Your Build Toolchain as a Dependency

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Modern C++ development has embraced package managers like Conan and vcpkg for dependency management, gaining reproducibility and productivity. However, a significant weak point remains: the build toolchain. Unlike standard dependencies, the disparate set of tools comprising the compiler, linker, standard libraries, and OS-specific headers often remains outside this managed ecosystem. This gap...
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Presenters

Luis Caro Campos

JFrog

Luis is a Electronics and Computer Engineer based in the UK, with previous experience as a C++ engineer in the field of Computer Vision and Robotics. With a passion to enable C++ engineers to develop at scale following modern DevOps practices. He is currently part of the Conan team... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Tooling/Utilities
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16:45 MDT

Meet Guy Davidson

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

For the first time in a generation, the C++ Standards Committee has a new convenor. Meet Guy Davidson. In the decade since joining the Committee, Guy has not personally authored wording that made it into the Standard. Yet, he exemplifies what the role demands: the ability to work intently, iterate relentlessly, absorb setbacks, adapt, and return stronger. He pairs that with a deep commitment to...
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Guy Davidson

Head of Engineering, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Guy Davidson is the Head of Engineering at Six Impossible Thing Before Breakfast. Before that, he was the Head of Engineering Practice at Creative Assembly, one of the UK's oldest and largest game development studios.

Guy started writing games over 40 years ago, spending 24 of them at Creative Assembly and being at Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast since January 2024. He is the co-author of Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for writing clean, safe and fast code, published by Pearson in 202... Read More →

Sherry Sontag

Bloomberg

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Business & Career

Subject Future C++, Math/Analysis, Software Quality
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16:45 MDT

Zero Cost Scripting Languages for Game Engines With C++26 Static Reflection

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Scripting in a C++ game engine should not cost you the engine's native performance. This talk shows how C++26 static reflection and std::meta::substitute in particular can lift a scripting language's bytecode into C++ template structures that the compiler optimizes away entirely, collapsing the interpreter dispatch loop into the same machine code you'd write by hand. Scripting languages like...
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Presenters

Koen Samyn

Koen is a senior software engineer and lecturer at digital art and entertainment whose primary focus is bringing modern C++ to GPU-driven game technology. Over the past decade he has built and optimized compute-shader pipelines for lighting, physics, and inverse kinematics. In the... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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GameDev

Subject Future C++, Generic/Metaprogramming, Performance, Software Design
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16:45 MDT

CMake: Making Hard Things Easy

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Modern C++ development involves much more than compiling source files. Cross-platform builds, dependency management, C++ modules, package metadata, SBOM generation, CI infrastructure, and distributed builds have all increased the complexity of software engineering over the last two decades. CMake has evolved alongside those challenges. This talk explores how modern CMake helps make difficult...
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Presenters

Bill Hoffman

Kitware, CTO

Mr. Hoffman is a founder of Kitware and currently serves as CTO. He is the original author and lead architect of CMake, an open source, cross-platform build and configuration tool that is used by hundreds of projects around the world. Using his 20+ years of experience with large software... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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General

Subject Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality
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16:45 MDT

Modern C++ Techniques to Reduce Boilerplate Without Sacrificing Performance

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Modern C++ gives developers powerful tools to write cleaner, safer, and more expressive code — but many production codebases still suffer from excessive boilerplate, repetitive patterns, and verbose implementations inherited from older C++ styles. This talk explores practical modern C++ techniques that significantly reduce lines of code while preserving readability, maintainability, and...
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Presenters

VISHNU G NATH

Seasoned software developer with over 7 years of experience specializing in modern C++ development across industrial automation, semiconductor manufacturing, and enterprise systems. He currently works as a Technical Lead Software at Applied Materials, where he architects and implements... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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General

Subject Future C++, Performance, Software Design, Software Quality
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16:45 MDT

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

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Time handling in C++ looks simple — but it has some caveats. Between system_clock , steady_clock , high_resolution_clock , and a few new friends from C++20, it’s easy to pick the wrong one and end up with flaky tests, wrong timestamps, or confusing results. This talk demystifies how time works in C++. We’ll explore what a "clock" really is, how std::chrono models it, and why not all clocks...
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Presenters

Sandor Dargo

Software Developer, Spotify

Sandor is a passionate software developer focusing on reducing the maintenance costs by developing, applying and enforcing clean code standards. His other core activity is knowledge sharing both oral and written, within and outside of his employer. When not reading or writing, he... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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General

Subject Standard Library
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16:45 MDT

C++ Core Guidelines Enforcement in Practice

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

The C++ Core Guidelines is quickly gaining popularity as the main C++ coding standard in the industry. The official introduction of the standard states the following: "Many of the rules are designed to be supported by an analysis tool. One way of thinking about these guidelines is as a specification for tools that happens to be readable by humans." We took up this challenge: we built the tools,...
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Presenters

Paul Jansen

Paul Jansen (1967) graduated from the University of Amsterdam in computing science and philosophy (both cum laude). At Philips Research he was a computer scientist in the field of compiler construction and domain-specific languages. After a brief stay at Atos Origin and QA Systems... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality
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21:00 MDT

Lightning Talks

Wednesday September 16, 2026 21:00 - 22:00 MDT

Colorado B

Lightning talks are your five minutes of stardom. The format encourages a focused and often high-energy presentation about nearly anything (subject to approval by the conference) that might be interesting to the C++ community, including proprietary technologies. They can be of a lighter or humorous nature, but they need not be.

Submit your talk here

Wednesday September 16, 2026 21:00 - 22:00 MDT
Colorado B

Open Content

09:00 MDT

The C++ safety issues your tools can't see

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 MDT

Much of the public criticism of C++ safety comes from vulnerabilities rooted in C patterns: raw pointer arithmetic, unchecked buffer indices, manual memory management. Modern C++ offers real answers to those problems through RAII, smart pointers, containers, and type-safe abstractions. But C++ also has its own distinct safety issues that have nothing to do with its heritage. Temporary lifetime...
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Presenters

Ion Todirel

Lead Engineering Manager, Microsoft

I’m an engineering lead at Microsoft, building tools that make software development more accessible and boost productivity for millions of developers. I’m passionate about native code and C++.

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 MDT
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Robotics & AI

Subject Future C++, Safety, Security, Software Quality
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09:00 MDT

Tying up Loose Threads: Making Your Project No-GIL Ready

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 MDT

Python's Global Interpreter Lock, which determines which single thread can execute native Python code and call C API functions, simplifies writing multithreaded code. By default, the most popular C++ bindings to this API, pybind11 and Cython, implicitly enables the GIL by default. However, sticking with this execution model leaves out extra performance afforded by modern multicore CPUs with...
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Presenters

Charlie Lin

Freelancer, N/A

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject API Design, Concurrency, Performance, Software Design, Tooling/Utilities, Safety
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09:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Loops in C++

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

A fundamental control structure of each programming language are loops. And we all expect them to be simple and self explanatory. However, C++ would not be C++, if there would be no tricky details to learn and respect about loops in C++. This talk takes its time to discuss the various ways and approaches to program loops in C++. Beside basic while and for loops, we talk about the range-based for...
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Presenters

Nicolai Josuttis

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject Algorithms, Concurrency, Performance, Functional
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09:00 MDT

Beyond Monads: Pattern Matching Alternatives for Result Types

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

In C++, monadic operations are a commonly utilized API for interacting with result types like std::optional and std::expected. By chaining the computations, these abstractions allow you to manipulate the underlying values using less boilerplate code. Monadic operations are a powerful tool suitable for a variety of usage scenarios. They enhance code robustness and significantly lower the risk of...
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Presenters

Vitaly Fanaskov

Principal Software Engineer, reMarkable

Vitaly Fanaskov is a Principal Software Engineer at reMarkable. He has been designing and developing software using C++ and some other languages for over a decade. Primary areas of interest are design and development of frameworks and libraries, modern programming languages, and functional... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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General

Subject API Design, Generic/Metaprogramming, Software Design, Functional
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09:00 MDT

The State of Boost: Boost Is Where You Become the Engineer You Want to Be

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

Every Boost library that graduated to the C++ Standard became invisible. shared_ptr doesn't say "Boost" anywhere in . Boost's greatest successes carry no signature — and that invisibility is killing recruitment. This talk is not a status report. It is an answer to the question: why would I give my best work to a project that erases my name? We begin with the people. Peter Dimov. Beman Dawes....
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Presenters

Harold Bott

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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General

Subject API Design, Future C++, Software Design, Software Quality
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09:00 MDT

Writing Low-Latency C++: Predictability, Cache, and the Architectures Underneath

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

In low-latency C++, correctness is table stakes. What separates good systems from great ones is predictability — the ability to hit your deadline not just on average, but at the 99th and 99.9th percentile, where real workloads live. Latency is a feature, and if you don't design for it explicitly, you lose it accidentally. This talk is a practitioner's guide to writing C++ that behaves...
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Presenters

Sampad Acharya

Senior Quant Developer, Fixed Income Trading, Bloomberg

Sampad Acharya is a senior software engineer at Bloomberg, where he specializes in low‑latency, cache‑optimized C++ systems for trading and real‑time environments. He has worked in software development for six years. Sampad is deeply interested in how algorithms behave in the... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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General

Subject Algorithms, Performance, Software Design
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09:35 MDT

When Air Gaps Learn: AI, Data, and the New C++ Attack Surface

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:35 - 10:05 MDT

Air-gapped systems used to be protected by what they could not reach. That assumption breaks when telemetry, sensor data, and diagnostic output leave the system and AI model-influenced behavior comes back in, even without a network connection. This talk examines the C++ engineering decisions that determine whether that data exchange is safe or silently dangerous. The problems are C++-specific...
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Presenters

Matthew Butler

Fractional CTO / CISO & Managing Partner, Laurel Lye Systems Engineering

I help CEOs and founders of high-stakes companies secure and scale their technology without the noise.

As a Fractional CTO/CISO, I bring 35+ years of experience designing and safeguarding systems where failure isn’t just a bug - it's a lawsuit, a breach, or a tragedy.

I specializ... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:35 - 10:05 MDT
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Robotics & AI

Subject Software Design, Safety, Security, Software Quality
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09:35 MDT

[[musttail]]-ling Our Way to a Faster Python Interpreter and New JIT Compiler

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:35 - 10:05 MDT

In CPython 3.14, we introduced an alternative interpreter implementation. This implementation used [[musttail]] , an experimental C/C++ feature that tells the compiler to enforce tail calls. Against the previous interpreter using computed gotos/switch-case, the new interpreter style shows 2%--15% performance improvement (i.e. geometric mean running time), and is more resilient against certain...
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Presenters

Ken Jin Ooi

Ken Jin Ooi is a Python maintainer since 2021 and is also currently a contractor for OpenAI. His Python work revolves around the performance of the Python interpreter, which is written in a subset of C11 that is mostly compatible with C++.

Thursday September 17, 2026 09:35 - 10:05 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Future C++, Performance
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10:30 MDT

Plenary

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT

Colorado A

TBA

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado A

TBA

Tags Plenary

14:00 MDT

C++ in the Age of AI: How Visual Studio Is Evolving

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

For almost 30 years, Visual Studio has been a core part of the C++ developer's toolkit on Windows. This year, we're building on that foundation with investments across three themes: making the IDE faster and more responsive for large codebases, advancing compiler conformance and runtime performance, and integrating AI-powered workflows that help you debug, refactor, and optimize more effectively....
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Presenters

David Li

Game Developer Product Manager, Microsoft

David Li is the Game Developer Product Manager at Visual Studio with 12 years of experience in the software industry. As a gamer himself, David is especially passionate about enhancing game developer productivity through improving tooling for Visual Studio. In his free time, he enjoys... Read More →

Augustin Popa

Senior Product Manager, Microsoft

I am a product manager on the Microsoft C++ team, working on the Visual Studio IDE and vcpkg, the C/C++ package manager.

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Performance, Standard Library, Tooling/Utilities, Safety, Security, Software Quality
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14:00 MDT

Generating Reliable Reference Documentation for Modern C++ Using the Clang AST

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Teams writing modern C++ libraries with concepts, niebloids, deduction guides, and SFINAE-driven overload sets either accept wrong reference documentation or maintain a Doxygen + XSLT + Sphinx pipeline of workarounds. A different approach is to read C++ from the Clang/LLVM AST, separate corpus extraction from output templates, and recognize common idioms as first-class. This allows the source to...
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Presenters

Alan de Freitas

Software Engineer, The C++ Alliance

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject API Design, Generic/Metaprogramming, Tooling/Utilities
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14:00 MDT

Type Punning: the joke is on you, pun intended. Fixing UB of reinterpret_cast!

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Many codebases contain several spots of type punning, and unfortunately a whole lot of those are incorrect and undefined behavior. While many current versions of compilers seem to do the correct thing, they might no longer do that tomorrow. Safety considerations wants to reduce/eliminate UB. It might be worthwhile to inspect your reinterpret_cast constructs, most probably they are wrong. In this...
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Presenters

Lieven de Cock

R&D engeneer, Newtec

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Standard Library, Safety, Security, Software Quality
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14:00 MDT

Using Modules in a Real Project

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

C++20 modules are finally usable end to end, from your own modules to 'import std;' The functional build-system support with real diagnostics. This talk teaches modules the way #include was once taught: with small files, a build, and concrete use cases. Modules stopped being experimental somewhere around 2025. This session builds the mental model from scratch: what a primary module interface unit...
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Presenters

Erez Strauss

Strat - Sr Software Engineer, Eisler Captal

Erez Strauss worked in Banks and Hedge Funds while focused on low latency systems.

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject API Design, Generic/Metaprogramming, Performance, Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality, Testing
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14:00 MDT

What Is Your Algorithmic Core?

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Production C++ code often hides small but deeply complex algorithms inside layers of engineering: APIs, lifetimes, error handling, integration, logging, and glue code. We test classes and systems, but rarely the algorithm itself in isolation. Off-by-one errors and broken or missing invariants can survive extensive pre-production testing. Line coverage does not imply branch coverage. Branch...
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Presenters

Egor Suvorov

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg

Egor Suvorov is a senior software engineer at Bloomberg, where he works on DataLayer, the company's real-time streaming data transformation pipeline. Previously, he led a freshman C++ course, where his students uncovered and reported dozens of bugs in various C++ tools. Egor was also... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Algorithms, API Design, Testing
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14:00 MDT

When Zero-Cost Abstractions Aren’t Zero-Cost

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT

Zero-cost abstractions are a foundational idea in C++, promising expressive, high-level code without sacrificing performance. However, developers often encounter unexpected costs when using modern abstractions in practice, even when the code appears idiomatic and well-designed. This talk explores the assumptions behind zero-cost abstractions and examines what happens when those assumptions no...
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Presenters

Steve Sorkin

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg

Steve Sorkin has been at Bloomberg since 2019, where he is a senior software engineer. He is enthusiastic about writing clean, scalable, and maintainable code for use in low latency and high throughput applications. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Steve worked as a securities/derivatives... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
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General

Subject Algorithms, Performance, Standard Library, Software Design, Software Quality
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15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Memory Alignment

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Have you ever wondered why your C++ class suddenly doubled in size, or why reordering its members made it smaller? This talk introduces memory alignment in C++ from the ground up - what it is, why it is critical, and how compilers handle it under the hood. We’ll start from first principles: how modern CPUs read memory, the difference between aligned and unaligned access, and the performance...
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Sarthak Sehgal

Tech Lead, Maven Securities

Sarthak Sehgal is a C++ Software Engineer at a high-frequency options market-making firm based in Chicago. He is passionate about low-level programming, performance optimization, and their applications in financial systems. Outside of work, he shares insights on C++ and finance on... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject Software Design
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15:15 MDT

Building C++20 Modules: The Rest of the Story

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

There is no classical treatise on the design and implementation build systems; no faithful textbook every toolchain engineer has on their bookshelf. If there were we would need to throw it out anyway, because C++20 modules required a significant rethink of how build systems orchestrate compilation of C++ software. It's been said over and over again that C++20 modules complicate the classic...
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Presenters

Vito Gamberini

Senior R&D Engineer, Kitware

Coding build systems to build systems code.

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject Tooling/Utilities
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15:15 MDT

C++23 Tools you will actually use

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

C++ journey doesn’t stop at C++20 where people already started to adopt. C++23 is here, it’s maturing, and it’s packed with new features that deserve your attention. In this session, we’ll explore the most practical, accessible, and impactful additions in C++23 features that you can actually start using, not just in toy projects but in real-world code bases. We’ll compare C++23 to its...
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Presenters

Alex Dathskovsky

Director of SW engineering, Speedata

Alex has over 18 years of software development experience, working on systems, low-level generic tools and high-level applications. Alex has worked as an integration/software developer at Elbit, senior software developer at Rafael, technical leader at Axxana, Software manager at Abbott... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject Future C++
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15:15 MDT

Coroutines for Dummies

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

C++20 coroutines are a game-changer for writing asynchronous code and generators, but they come with a steep learning curve. This talk is designed to simplify the concept and make coroutines more approachable. We’ll focus on co_await — how it works, what it does under the hood, and why it's useful. If you’ve been curious about coroutines but found the resources confusing, this talk is for...
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Presenters

Dominic Fischer

Bloomberg

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject Concurrency
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15:15 MDT

Leveraging LLM to Generate Unittests for Notifiers in Taskflow

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Notifiers are a critical synchronization primitive in task-parallel programming systems such as Intel TBB and Taskflow, responsible for efficiently sleeping and waking worker threads as tasks become unavailable and available over and over again, directly impacting scheduler throughput and latency. Correctness here is non-negotiable: a single missed wakeup can significantly hamper the performance...
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Presenters

Snikitha Siddavatam

Snikitha Siddavatam is a Computer Science and Data Science student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expected to graduate in May 2027, with coursework spanning machine learning, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, data visualization, and advanced algorithms. Snikitha... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject Algorithms, Concurrency, Future C++, Performance, Software Design, Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality, Testing
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15:15 MDT

The Latency Slippage: Understanding the Hidden Costs of Caching for Low Latency C++

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

Choosing cache-friendly data structures is a well-known optimization, but it's rarely the whole story. This talk goes deeper, exploring the hardware mechanics that dictate real-world performance and showing where significant gains are still left on the table. We'll start from the ground up: what actually happens inside the cache hierarchy when your code issues a memory read or a software...
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Presenters

Sanchit Gupta

Sanchit Gupta graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras with Honours in Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. Since graduating, Sanchit has worked for Graviton as a Low latency Software Developer

Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
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General

Subject Concurrency, Performance, Tooling/Utilities
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16:45 MDT

Getting More Out of AI in C++: Custom Hooks, Skills, and MCP servers

Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:15 MDT

AI coding agents are transforming how we write C++ code and come with a growing extensibility stack. Between hooks, skills, and MCP servers it's not obvious when to reach for which in your day to day workflow. This talk demonstrates the differences through demos in a real C++ codebase. We'll build a hook that runs the project's linter and lets the agent fix any issues it finds, create a skill to...
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Presenters

Alexandra Kemper

Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:15 MDT
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General

Subject Tooling/Utilities
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16:45 MDT

Extending Google Test for Statistical Benchmarking, CUDA Profiling, and CI Performance Regression

Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:15 MDT

Benchmarks shouldn't live in a different world from tests. Most C++ projects already use Google Test, but the moment performance enters the picture, developers reach for separate tools, separate workflows, and ad-hoc timing loops that don't survive contact with CI. This talk argues for a different default: treat performance measurements as first-class tests. They are written in the same harness,...
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Presenters

Kevin Gomez

Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:15 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Performance, Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality, Testing
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16:45 MDT

Mentoring Through Code Review in a Senior-heavy C++ Team

Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Code review is the most consistent contact point most senior C++ engineers have with the developers they are meant to be growing. It is also the place where well-intentioned mentorship most often turns into gatekeeping, bikeshedding, or a queue of unblocked-but-unlearned junior developers. This talk is about treating code review as a deliberate teaching practice rather than a quality gate that...
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Presenters

Roth Michaels

Principal Software Engineer, Native Instruments

Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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Business & Career

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16:45 MDT

Are You Smarter Than A Branch Predictor?

Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

Are you smarter than a branch predictor? In this interactive, game-show themed session, the audience becomes the branch predictor: participants vote on which of two C++ snippets will run faster before we examine what actually happens on real hardware. The snippets are drawn from real world production code, and correct answers are rewarded with stress balls. Through these examples, we build a...
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Presenters

Michelle D'Souza

Software Engineer, Bloomberg

Michelle Fae D’Souza is a Software Engineer at Bloomberg, where she develops C++ code for the company’s order-trade entry and modification (OTE API) solution, which streamlines trading activity for many firms in the financial world. She is an active member of Bloomberg's C++ Guild... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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General

Subject Performance
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16:45 MDT

Quicker Than Quick: Using Radix Sort to Make `std::stable_sort` Beat `std::sort`

Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

This talk takes you through the research and optimization of radix sort, culminating in its integration into libc++. You will learn : common pitfalls of radix sort implementations (non-binary digits, dynamic memory allocation, fragile interfaces), how to design a strict and high-performance interface (fixed digit size, external buffer, projection to integers), and how to overcome radix sort's...
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Presenters

Dmitriy Izvolov

C++ Developer

Dmitry Izvolov graduated from MIEM (Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics) with a degree in Applied Mathematics. Since then, he has worked as a programmer across diverse domains: DLP systems, information retrieval, cybersecurity, image processing, and speech synthesis. Currently... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
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General

Subject Algorithms, API Design, Performance, Standard Library, Software Design
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17:20 MDT

API Design is Language Design: Lessons from Go's net/http library for C++

Thursday September 17, 2026 17:20 - 17:50 MDT

Years ago while working on a service that would be deployed in Kubernetes, we decided to use the simplest possible TCP based healthcheck. Not because TCP was the right choice, but because implementing a simple HTTP endpoint was more code than it was worth. For our Go services the equivalent HTTP endpoint was only a couple of lines. In fact, we eventually ended up replacing our TCP endpoint with a...
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Presenters

Tim van Deurzen

Senior Software Engineer, Eolas Engineering

I'm fascinated by compilers, programming languages, databases and anything that deals with data structures and algorithms.

Thursday September 17, 2026 17:20 - 17:50 MDT
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General

Subject API Design, Software Design
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17:20 MDT

Who Is #include-ing You? Measuring the Impact of C++ Libraries

Thursday September 17, 2026 17:20 - 17:50 MDT

C++ library maintainers are often in the dark as to everyone who actually depends on their code. Without that knowledge, deprecation decisions are guesses, the downstream impact of any API change is hard to predict, and the case for funding or continued investment is difficult to make rigorously. This talk demonstrates how mapping your downstream ecosystem changes the way you maintain and evolve a...
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Presenters

John Parent

Kitware, Inc, Research and Development Engineer

John Parent is a senior research and development engineer on the Software Solutions Team at Kitware, Inc., where he is the primary developer of the Spack package manager’s Windows support. His other work covers contributions to CMake, establishing complex CI systems and C++ /Python... Read More →

Thursday September 17, 2026 17:20 - 17:50 MDT
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General

Subject Tooling/Utilities
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18:30 MDT

Meet the Presenters Banquet

Thursday September 17, 2026 18:30 - 20:30 MDT

Colorado C/D

The Meet the Presenters Banquet is open to all attendees. Ticket required. Invitation is included with "Regular" and "Full" conference registration and is also available as a separate, stand-alone registration.

This is your opportunity to meet and discuss with the presenters (main program, poster, instructors) in a relaxed, informal environment.

Thursday September 17, 2026 18:30 - 20:30 MDT
Colorado C/D

Social

20:30 MDT

Lightning Talks

Thursday September 17, 2026 20:30 - 22:00 MDT

Colorado B

Thursday September 17, 2026 20:30 - 22:00 MDT
Colorado B

Open Content

09:00 MDT

The Next 20 Weeks of Systems Engineering

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

For a long time, programming was constrained by our ability to produce code. That constraint is eroding rapidly. AI systems can now generate substantial amounts of code with little effort, while inspection, validation, and integration remain difficult. This transition alters the economics of software engineering. Code is becoming easier to generate than to reason about, and sound judgment grows...
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Presenters

Andrei Alexandrescu

Principal Research Scientist, NVIDIA

Andrei Alexandrescu is a Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA. He wrote three best-selling books on programming (Modern C++ Design, C++ Coding Standards, and The D Programming Language) and numerous articles and papers on wide-ranging topics from programming to language design to... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Business & Career

Subject Future C++, Software Design
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09:00 MDT

“If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It”: From Profiling to Automatic Benchmarking

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

Modern hardware is increasingly complex and difficult to reason about; effective C++ performance work therefore demands a disciplined loop - profile, benchmark, analyze. Yet profiling alone is tricky, doesn’t answer “what if” questions, and manual benchmarking is dominated by hidden biases. This talk presents a novel automatic benchmarking approach that focuses on eliminating...
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Presenters

Kris Jusiak

Lead Software Engineer, Citadel Securities

Nanosecond count

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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General

Subject Performance, Tooling/Utilities
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09:00 MDT

C++ Views and Pipelines

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

C++ Views were introduced with C++20 and extended with C++23 and C++26. They are lightweight objects that specify how to use (specific) elements of collections and their values. By composed into pipelines, programmers can easily define complex processing of collections of data. However, the use of views also has pitfalls and traps. Therefore you should know about * The consequences of reference...
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Presenters

Nicolai Josuttis

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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General

Subject Performance, Standard Library, Software Design, Safety
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09:00 MDT

C++26: A Curated Tour of What's New

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

The next evolution of C++ has officially arrived, bringing a massive wave of enhancements to both the core language and the Standard Library. But with hundreds of committee proposals officially baked into the standard, where do you start? Continuing the tradition from previous releases, this fast-paced session delivers a comprehensive look at the new and updated features that define C++26. We...
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Presenters

Marc Gregoire

Software Project Manager, Nikon Metrology

MARC GREGOIRE is a software project manager and software architect from Belgium. He graduated from the University of Leuven, Belgium, with a degree in "Burgerlijk ingenieur in de computer wetenschappen" (equivalent to a master of science in engineering in computer science). The... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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General

Subject Future C++, Standard Library
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09:00 MDT

Safety in Numbers

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

The C++ standard is moving more and more in the direction of safety. In the process, the committee is providing us with tools to help make our own code safer. Many of these tools are specifically around numerics and none of them are enabled by default! To make matters worse, most C++ programmers don't even know these library features exist! Even if they did know, they wouldn't use them, because...
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Presenters

Jason Turner

Sole Proprietor, Jason Turner

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Scientific Computing

Subject Math/Analysis, Standard Library, Software Design, Software Quality, Testing
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09:00 MDT

Code Like a Library Author: How to Write Better C++ Application Code

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT

To write the best C++ application code, you must think like a library author. This talk reframes application development as a form of library design, where every component is a potential asset for future maintenance and extension. We'll survey the C++ language features that empower library authors to create powerful, flexible, and safe abstractions. From there, we'll distill the 'library author...
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Presenters

Jon Kalb

CppCon, Conference Chair, Jon Kalb, Consulting

Jon Kalb is using his decades of software engineering experience and knowledge about C++ to make other people better software engineers. He trains experienced software engineers to be better programmers. He presents at and helps run technical conferences and local user groups.

Jon is passionate about quality code and wants to inspire others to achieve their best engineering work. He is excited about modern C++ and how we can exploit the latest hardware developments with standard, portable C... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
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Software Design

Subject API Design, Software Design, Software Quality
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10:30 MDT

Back to Basics: Containers

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT

How to Choose and Use the Right Container in Modern C++: Part 1, Classic Containers Choosing the right container and using it correctly can have a profound impact on the performance of a program, but doing so is harder than you might think. In Part 1 we will survey the containers and adaptors in the C++17 Standard Library, and discuss how to choose the best tool for the job and extract the best...
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Presenters

Alan Talbot

Manager - Software Engineering, LTK Engineering Services

Alan Talbot started programming in 1972, in BASIC on a DEC PDP-8. He began his professional programming career in 1979 and started using C++ in 1989. For 20 years he was a pioneer in music typography software, then spent 8 years writing digital mapping software, and has spent the... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject API Design, Future C++, Performance, Standard Library, Software Design
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10:30 MDT

Memory Safety on a Microcontroller: What Embedded C++ Teams Can Actually Do Today

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT

The White House says stop using C++. CISA wants a memory safety roadmap. The internet says rewrite everything in Rust. Meanwhile, embedded teams are shipping firmware on Cortex-M microcontrollers with limited flash, no MMU, no virtual memory, and a codebase that cannot be rewritten overnight. So what do you actually do? This talk is a practical, tool-by-tool walkthrough of every memory safety...
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Presenters

Darijo Topic

Darijo Topić is an embedded software engineer at Mettler-Toledo, where he develops firmware for precision instrumentation products using C++ on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. His current work involves migrating a multi-board embedded system from a proprietary toolchain to Zephyr... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
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Embedded

Subject Embedded
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10:30 MDT

Senders, Receivers, and Robots: Structured Concurrency for Autonomous Navigation

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT

To navigate safely, a robot must simultaneously ingest high-frequency sensor data, compute complex spatial algorithms, and publish control commands. Historically, frameworks like ROS 2 have handled this via asynchronous callbacks. However, as autonomous stacks scale, relying heavily on unstructured callbacks can obscure control flow, making state synchronization difficult and robust task...
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Presenters

Nahuel Espinosa

Software Engineer, Ekumen

Nahuel Espinosa graduated as an Electronics Engineer from UTN (National Technological University) in Buenos Aires. Since graduation, Nahuel has worked with a variety of systems and technologies: - Robotics applications (e.g., localization algorithms based on particle filters, rigid-body... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
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Robotics & AI

Subject API Design, Concurrency, Software Design, Functional
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10:30 MDT

IEEE 754 Decimals for C++: The Boost.Decimal Library

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT

Why does 0.1 + 0.2 not equal 0.3? Because binary floating-point cannot exactly represent most decimal fractions, the value 0.1 simply does not exist in IEEE 754 binary. For applications where rounding errors are unacceptable, finance, billing, regulatory reporting, scientific data interchange, this is a structural problem, not a precision setting that can be tuned away. IEEE 754-2008 introduced a...
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Presenters

Matt Borland

Staff Engineer, The C++ Alliance

Matt Borland earned his bachelor's from the University of Michigan and his master's from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is the author of Boost.Charconv and Boost.Decimal, both... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
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Scientific Computing

Subject Algorithms, API Design, Future C++, Math/Analysis, Performance
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10:30 MDT

Incremental Modernization: Refactoring Legacy OOP Application Code using Type Erasure and Functional C++

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT

As legacy C++ codebases evolve to meet new requirements, fix architectural issues, and address performance bottlenecks, refactoring becomes inevitable — but full rewrites are risky, costly, and rarely practical. This talk explores how modern C++ features — especially functional programming techniques and type erasure — can be used to refactor and extend legacy systems. We will present a...
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Presenters

Jessica Ding

Jessica Ding is a software engineer at Bloomberg, where she develops and maintains robust, high-performance trading and order management solutions that enable efficient execution, monitoring, and management of complex orders across global markets. Jessica earned her bachelor’s and... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
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Software Design

Subject Software Design, Software Quality, Functional
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10:30 MDT

Generating Language Bindings using C++ Reflection

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT

Language bindings for C++ can be valuable tools for developers who wish to make C++ libraries available for use in other programming languages, like Python. There are many reasons developers may wish to do this, including testing, prototyping, or performance. One of the issues often faced when writing bindings for C++ is the need to write excessive amounts of boilerplate code to bridge the gap...
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Presenters

Callum Piper

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg

Callum Piper has been writing C++ since 2000. He has spent five years as a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg, working on Derivatives Pricing services. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Callum was a consultant for more than 10 years, during which he worked on a wide range of different... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Future C++, Software Design
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13:30 MDT

Back to Basics: Text Formatting

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT

Most C++ programmers are familiar with the traditional C++ facilities for text processing found in the iostream and string libraries. However, std::format (C++20) and std::print (C++23) provide new text formatting tools that are unfamiliar to many C++ programmers. While these new facilities can be very helpful, they can also produce some very intimidating error messages when misused. Moreover, the...
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Presenters

Ben Saks

Chief Engineer, Ben Saks Consulting

Ben Saks is the chief engineer of Saks & Associates, which offers training and consulting in C and C++ and their use in developing embedded systems. Ben has represented Saks & Associates on the ISO C++ Standards committee as well as two of the committee’s study groups: SG14 (low-latency... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
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Back to Basics

Subject Performance, Standard Library
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13:30 MDT

Code You Didn't Write: Understanding Large and Unfamiliar Codebases

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT

First day on a new project. You set up your workstation and then download a repository of over 1,000,000 lines of code. Even more intimidating, the code has been around for 20 years. Parts are in legacy C++, parts use the latest C++26 features, and increasingly, AI coding assistants are weaving new code through all of it, meaning some parts of the codebase may have never been fully understood by a...
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Presenters

Chris Croft-White

Undo

Mike Shah

Professor / (occasional) 3D Graphics Engineer

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
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Business & Career

Subject Software Design, Tooling/Utilities
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13:30 MDT

The Real Story of C++26: Beyond the Headline Features

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT

C++26 is often defined by its headline features — reflection, contracts, and senders/receivers. But those don’t tell the whole story. In this talk, we’ll look beyond the headlines to explore the changes that more accurately reflect where C++ is heading. While less visible, these features address long-standing pain points, improve consistency, and quietly reshape everyday programming in...
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Presenters

Sandor Dargo

Software Developer, Spotify

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
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General

Subject Future C++, Standard Library
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13:30 MDT

Why Great C++ Libraries Fail (And How to Fix That)

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT

You found the perfect C++ library. But you cannot integrate it with your CMake build without reading three pages of bespoke instructions. The documentation (if any) is a Doxygen-generated API dump. You file a bug, get "read the source," and move on. You never adopted it—and you had every intention of doing so. Or you are the author of that library. Technically brilliant. Six months after...
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Presenters

Mateusz Pusz

C++ Trainer | Principal Engineer, Train IT | Epam Systems

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
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General

Subject Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality
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13:30 MDT

Implementing Async RAII

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT

C++ lifetime management is fundamentally built around synchronous scope exit. Constructors establish invariants, destructors release resources, and RAII permits ownership and cleanup to compose naturally with ordinary control flow. Asynchronous systems disrupt this model. Destruction may itself require asynchronous work, and “just launch another task in the destructor” quickly turns...
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Presenters

Robert Leahy

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
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Scientific Computing

Subject Algorithms, API Design, Concurrency, Future C++, Generic/Metaprogramming, Software Design
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13:30 MDT

Modernizing Legacy Codebases without Stopping the World

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT

Every mature codebase carries history and technical debt. The challenge is modernizing without stopping the world or introducing big re-write failure risks. In this talk, we’ll explore how to modernize legacy C++ codebases incrementally using a mix of deterministic code transformations and AI-assisted refactoring . After delving into some of the common problems with legacy...
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Presenters

Peter Muldoon

Engineering Lead, Bloomberg

Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
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Tooling & Ecosystem

Subject Algorithms, API Design, Tooling/Utilities, Software Quality
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14:45 MDT

Back to Basics: const, constexpr, consteval

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT

const is one of the oldest and most widely used features in C++, yet many developers still struggle with the subtle differences between const , constant expressions, constexpr , and consteval . In this talk, you will learn how compile-time constants evolved in modern C++, starting with const and continuing through the features introduced since C++11. You will see what constant evaluation really...
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Presenters

Andreas Fertig

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
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Back to Basics

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14:45 MDT

Good boss, bad boss: how to be a good manager, and how to manage a bad one.

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT

Most bosses aren’t stupid, they just seem like it sometimes! This can be especially so when a great programmer first becomes a manager – suddenly the very attributes that made them good at their job become a problem. Whether you’ve just been ‘promoted’ to a management position, you hope to be some day, or you want to know how to deal with a difficult manager – it’s very useful to...
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Presenters

Greg Law

CEO, Undo.io

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
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Business & Career

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14:45 MDT

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

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT

The software in most embedded projects written in 2026 looks like the software in embedded projects written in 1996. This isn't because 1996 was the peak of innovation and quality but rather has more to do with biases and FUD. Unfortunately, much of the world suffers from these choices: users, developers, managers, and shareholders. There are better ways to write firmware for embedded systems;...
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Presenters

Michael Caisse

Senior Principal Engineer, Intel

Michael started using C++ with embedded systems in 1990. He continues to be passionate about combing his degree in Electrical Engineering with elegant software solutions and is always excited to share his discoveries with others. Michael is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel where... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
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Embedded

Subject API Design, Concurrency, Embedded, Generic/Metaprogramming, Software Design
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14:45 MDT

Our Journey Toward a Fully Backward-Compatible, UB-Safe, ISO C++

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT

Today's world runs on C++. That's because, in domains requiring scale, performance, low latency, and fine-grained control over concurrency, C++ is second to none! Yet in recent years, a growing concern has emerged: C++ programs are often considered unsafe — not because of programmer negligence, but because the language itself provides insufficient mechanisms to prevent or reliably detect...
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Presenters

John Lakos

John Lakos, author of Large-Scale C++ Software Design (Pearson, 1996), is currently exploring the application of AI to large-scale C++ software design. From 2001 to 2026, he served at Bloomberg LP in New York City as a senior architect and mentor for C++ Software Development worldwide... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
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General

Subject Future C++, Performance, Standard Library, Software Design, Safety, Security, Software Quality, Testing
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14:45 MDT

What 25 Days of Optimisations Taught Me About Compilers

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT

In December I posted a short video every day about a different compiler optimisation. Some were obvious. Some surprised me. A handful caught me out completely, and some even were compiler bugs! This talk distils the most interesting into one talk. It isn't a clip show: the order matters, the gaps matter, and together they tell a story about where modern optimisers are scarily good, where they're...
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Matt Godbolt

Programmer and sometime verb, Compiler Explorer

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
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General

Subject Performance
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14:45 MDT

Concurrency for Modern CPUs - Lock-Free or Lock-based?

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT

For decades, lock-free programming has been the go-to optimization for the most contended parts of concurrent programs. The reasoning was simple: locks are slow under contention, so eliminate the locks. This made sense on the hardware of the time, and I should know—I've given several talks explaining how and why to do it. The hardware has changed. Modern CPUs are highly optimized for the...
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Presenters

Fedor Pikus

Fellow, Siemens EDA

Fedor G Pikus is a Technical Fellow and the Director of the Advanced Projects Team in Siemens Digital Industries Software. His responsibilities include planning the long-term technical direction of Calibre products, directing and training the engineers who work on these products... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
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Scientific Computing

Subject Performance
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16:15 MDT

Closing Plenary

Friday September 18, 2026 16:15 - 18:00 MDT

Colorado A

TBA

Friday September 18, 2026 16:15 - 18:00 MDT
Colorado A

TBA

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