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Monday, September 14
 

08:00 MDT

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

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

08:30 MDT

Profiles for simplicity and guarantees
Monday September 14, 2026 08:30 - 10:15 MDT
Colorado A
The C++ community is growing fast. C++ is being used in critical applications. C++ can be used in ways that ensures correctness, simplicity, performance, and maintainability. How can we ensure that it is used is such desirable ways? How can we teach new and old C++ developers to do so?The general strategy is called “subset of superset” and is based on the idea that by extending...
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Presenters
avatar for Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup

Professor, Columbia University

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

10:15 MDT

Conference Group Photo
Monday September 14, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 MDT
Colorado A
Follow the crowd 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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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
avatar for Ruslan Arutyunyan

Ruslan Arutyunyan

Senior Middleware Development Engineer, Intel
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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Back to Basics

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
Red Rock 6/7
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
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Aryan Naraghi

Aryan Naraghi is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Before that, he spent most of his career at Google, from 2012 to 2021 and again from 2023 to 2026, where he contributed to BigQuery, App Engine, Google Analytics, and Compute Engine; in between his two stretches at Google... Read More →
Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  GameDev

11:00 MDT

Are You Smarter Than A Branch Predictor?
Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado B
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 unique specialty erasers (no two are the same!)....
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Presenters
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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 Data Licence solution, providing quantitative data for firms worldwide. She is an active member of Bloomberg's C++ Guild and is a Technical Rep at Bloomberg. Michelle holds... Read More →
Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado B
  General

11:00 MDT

C++26: A Curated Tour of What's New
Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado A
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
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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 →
Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado A
  General

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
Red Rock 8/9
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
KG

Kevin Gomez

Flight Software Engineer, Lux Aeterna
Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  Robotics & AI

11:00 MDT

Same Bits Without Losing MIPS: Reproducible Numerics at Full Hardware Speed
Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
avatar for Andrew Drakeford

Andrew Drakeford

Numerical Ghost Slayer, Determinus Labs
Andrew Drakeford has a PhD in Physics and began developing C++ applications in the early 1990s at British Telecom Laboratories. For the past two decades, he has worked in finance, building high-performance calculation libraries and trading systems in C++.His current focus is making... Read More →
Monday September 14, 2026 11:00 - 12:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Scientific Computing

12:30 MDT

[Open Content] C++26 Reflection on Windows with Visual Studio Code and WSL
Monday September 14, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
At the moment, two practical options for experimenting with C++26 static reflection are Bloomberg’s Clang fork and GCC 16. Getting these compilers set up on a Windows laptop can be a challenge.

In this session, I will show you how to set up WSL on Windows, install GCC 16, and configure Visual Studio Code to build and run simple C++26 static reflection examples in this environment.
Presenters
avatar for Koen Samyn

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 →
Monday September 14, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Tooling & Ecosystem

14:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Templates
Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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
avatar for Laurent Carlier

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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Back to Basics

14:00 MDT

Pointers to Power: Navigating Organizational Influence
Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
MK
Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Business & Career

14:00 MDT

Beyond the Scheduler: Designing Predictable Embedded Systems in Modern C++
Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
Embedded systems have to operate within real limits. We care about timing, memory usage, reliability, and what happens when something fails. But storage is often treated differently. We write a file, call an API, and assume the operation will finish when it finishes. That works for a lot of systems, but it becomes harder to accept when storage is part of a real-time workload. That led me to a...
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Presenters
avatar for Elbert Dockery

Elbert Dockery

Elbert Dockery is an engineer, worked at several small companies as well as small startups. He has experience with systems software as well as embedded systems.
Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  Embedded

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
Red Rock 6/7
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
avatar for Diego Rodriguez-Losada Gonzalez

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
Red Rock 6/7
  General

14:00 MDT

Towards a complete contract-assertion facility for C++
Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado B
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
avatar for Timur Doumler

Timur Doumler

Senior Software Engineer, Citadel Securities
Timur Doumler is a software engineer specialising in low-latency and real-time C++. He works at Citadel Securities and is an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee, where he has (co-)authored many successful proposals including [[assume]], std::inplace_vector, and contract... Read More →
Monday September 14, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado B
  General

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
Colorado A
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
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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 →
avatar for Devpriya Dave

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
Colorado A
  Software Design

15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Code Analysis
Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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Presenters
avatar for Alexsandro Thomas

Alexsandro Thomas

Senior Software Engineer
Alexsandro Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer, and a member of the ISO C++ Standard Committee. He specializes in C++ API development, build systems, and developer tooling. His interests include heterogeneous computing, compiler technology, and languages.
Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Back to Basics

15:15 MDT

The journey to "/W4 /WX": How hard could it be?
Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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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Presenters
avatar for Keith Stockdale

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
Red Rock 8/9
  GameDev

15:15 MDT

std::simd Without Compromise: SIMD in C++26 and Beyond, as Fast as Silicon Allows
Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado B
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
avatar for Ruslan Arutyunyan

Ruslan Arutyunyan

Senior Middleware Development Engineer, Intel
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 →
avatar for Daniel Towner

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
Colorado B
  General

15:15 MDT

The Latency Slippage: Understanding the Hidden Costs of Caching for Low Latency C++
Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado A
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
avatar for Sanchit Gupta

Sanchit Gupta

Low Latency C++ Developer, Graviton Research Capital
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
Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado A
  General

15:15 MDT

Capability Routing Grid: From Decoupled Plugins to the Hardware Ceiling
Monday September 14, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
avatar for Cyril TISSIER

Cyril TISSIER

Programming Architect, Ubisoft
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
Homestead 3/4
  Software Design

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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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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Presenters
HM

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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Tooling & Ecosystem

16:45 MDT

Back to Basics: const, constexpr, consteval
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado A
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
avatar for Andreas Fertig

Andreas Fertig

C++ Trainer & Consultant
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 →
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado A
  Back to Basics

16:45 MDT

AEMBER: Modern Embedded C++ Without the Chaos
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
avatar for Arian Ajdari

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
Homestead 3/4
  Embedded

16:45 MDT

Zero Cost Scripting Languages for Game Engines With C++26 Static Reflection
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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
avatar for Koen Samyn

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 →
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  GameDev

16:45 MDT

C++ in the Age of AI: How Visual Studio Is Evolving
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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
avatar for David Li

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 →
avatar for Augustin Popa

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.
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  General

16:45 MDT

Why Great C++ Libraries Fail (And How to Fix That)
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado B
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
avatar for Mateusz Pusz

Mateusz Pusz

C++ Trainer, Train IT
Mateusz Pusz is a C++ architect and voting member of the ISO C++ Committee (WG21), with 100% meeting attendance since 2017. As an active contributor to Library Evolution, he originated variable template template parameters (P2008, now part of C++26), co-authored heterogeneous lookup... Read More →
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado B
  General

16:45 MDT

Works on My Machine, Works in CI: Treating Your Build Toolchain as a Dependency
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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
avatar for Luis Caro Campos

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 →
Monday September 14, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  Tooling & Ecosystem

19:00 MDT

HRT Happy Hour
Monday September 14, 2026 19:00 - 22:00 MDT
Mountain Pass Sports Bar
Join the Hudson River Trading team for a networking social to unwind, connect, and continue the conversations of CppCon 2026.Enjoy complimentary cocktails and bites.Connect with HRT recruiters and members of our technical teams.Discover the exciting work we’re doing at the intersection of software engineering and finance.As a CppCon sponsor, we’re excited to host this event to...
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Monday September 14, 2026 19:00 - 22:00 MDT
Mountain Pass Sports Bar
  Social

20:30 MDT

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

Moderators
avatar for Herb Sutter

Herb Sutter

Technical fellow, Citadel Securities

Presenters
avatar for Andrei Alexandrescu

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 →
avatar for Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup

Professor, Columbia University

avatar for Braden Ganetsky

Braden Ganetsky

Braden Ganetsky graduated from the University of Manitoba with a degree in mechanical engineering, fueled by his passion for mechanical puzzles. During his final year of school, when all classes and activities were remote, he discovered C++ and has been hooked ever since. He interned... Read More →
avatar for Gabriel Dos Reis

Gabriel Dos Reis

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Dr. Gabriel Dos Reis is an Architect for Visual Studio at Microsoft, working in the area of large scale software construction, neurosymbolic tools and techniques.  His contributions to C++ include scalable generic programming, pioneering compile-time computation, language support... Read More →
avatar for Guy Davidson

Guy Davidson

Head of Engineering, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Guy Davidson is the convenor of the C++ Standards Committee.

He is also the Head of Engineering at Six Impossible Things 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 sta... Read More →
avatar for Jeff Garland

Jeff Garland

CrystalClear Software
Jeff Garland has worked on many large-scale, distributed software projects over the past 30+ years. The systems span many different domains including telephone switching, industrial process control, satellite ground control, ip-based communications, and financial systems. He has written... Read More →
avatar for Nina Ranns

Nina Ranns

The Standard C++ Foundation
Nina Dinka Ranns is a C++ consultant and a long-time member of the ISO C++ standardization committee, where she has contributed since 2013. She currently serves as ISO C++ committee vice convener and as a director of the Standard C++ Foundation.

Throughout her career, she has worked on systems ranging from telecommunications infrastructure to cloud-based security products. As a consultant, she has collaborated with Edison Design Group, Qt Group, Bloomberg, and the C++ Alliance on compiler technology, library design, and the... Read More →
avatar for Ruslan Arutyunyan

Ruslan Arutyunyan

Senior Middleware Development Engineer, Intel
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 →
avatar for Timur Doumler

Timur Doumler

Senior Software Engineer, Citadel Securities
Timur Doumler is a software engineer specialising in low-latency and real-time C++. He works at Citadel Securities and is an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee, where he has (co-)authored many successful proposals including [[assume]], std::inplace_vector, and contract... Read More →
Monday September 14, 2026 20:30 - 22:00 MDT
Colorado A
  ISO / WG21
 
Tuesday, September 15
 

07:00 MDT

Seven Research Women++ Networking Breakfast
Tuesday September 15, 2026 07:00 - 09:00 MDT
Colorado C
Join us for the Women++ Networking Breakfast!Kick off CppCon with a relaxed breakfast for women and LGBTQIA+ professionals on Tuesday,September 15, from 07:00–09:00.Meet fellow C++ engineers over coffee, breakfast, swag, and light activities designed to sparkmeaningful conversation before the conference begins.Sponsored by Seven Research, the event will also offer a chance to learn how C++...
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Tuesday September 15, 2026 07:00 - 09:00 MDT
Colorado C
  Social

08:00 MDT

[Open Content] Tower Research Capital - Ask Me Anything (AMA)
Tuesday September 15, 2026 08:00 - 08:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
Tower Research Capital hosts a dynamic, Reddit-style "Ask Me Anything" session at CppCon featuring Justin Zaglio, Principal Software Engineer, Risk Limits, and Vincent Marsicano, Global Head of Technology Talent Acquisition at Tower that puts the spotlight on real-world applications of C++ in one of the most demanding environments: global quantitative trading. The 45-minute session will open with...
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Presenters
JZ

Justin Zaglio

Principal Software Engineer, Tower Research Capital
Justin is a Principal Software Engineer at Tower, where he works on risk-related infrastructure and quantitative tooling.  Prior to Tower he spent (a long) time at Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan running front-office risk systems for various Fixed Income desks.  He has degrees in Computer... Read More →
VM

Vincent Marsicano

Global Head of Technology Talent Acquisition, Tower Research Capital

Tuesday September 15, 2026 08:00 - 08:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Business & Career

09:00 MDT

Can I memcpy This Type Across a Boundary? Verifying Object Representation at Compile Time With C++26 Reflection
Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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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 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  General

09:00 MDT

Interesting Upcoming Low-Latency, Networking, Concurrency, and Parallelism Features from Kona 2025, Croydon 2026, and Brno 2026
Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado A
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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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado A
  General

09:00 MDT

The State of Boost: Boost Is Where You Become the Engineer You Want to Be
Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
Every Boost library that graduated to the C++ Standard became invisible. shared_ptr doesn't say "Boost" anywhere. 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. Howard Hinnant....
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Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  General

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
Homestead 3/4
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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Carl Saldanha

Robotics Software Engineer, Amazon
Carl Saldanha, is a Senior Robotics Engineer at Amazon.com focused on Manipulation at Scale
Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Robotics & AI

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
Red Rock 8/9
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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Jorg Lotze

Technical Lead, Xcelerit
Jorg Lotze is a software architect with over 25 years of experience building high-performance C++ systems for global investment banks and scientific computing. He is the creator of XAD, an open-source C++ automatic differentiation library. His work focuses on front-office pricing... Read More →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  Scientific Computing

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
Colorado B
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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Sinem Akinci

Sinem Akinci graduated from the University of Michigan with a focus in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science. She now is working as a Senior Product Manager on the C++ team focusing on AI-powered developer experiences.
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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
Colorado B
  Tooling & Ecosystem

10:30 MDT

Language Designers Panel
Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado A
This Language Designers Panel features three of the people who decide what the languages you use every day actually become:Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++ (who will have just given his own Monday conference kickoff keynote the day before)Guido van Rossum, the creator of PythonMads Torgersen, the lead designer of C# and Anders Hejlsberg’s successor in that roleModerator: Emma Tracey,...
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Bjarne Stroustrup

Professor, Columbia University

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Mads Torgersen

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

12:30 MDT

[Open Content] Meet the Recruiters (Bloomberg edition)
Tuesday September 15, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
Recruiters Pri Trivedi and Brian Leone of Bloomberg will spend their lunch answering your career-related questions. Bring all of them. Which college classes build a strong first CV? How should you handle a technical interview? How can you learn and grow by participating in and contributing to open source? What does a first job actually look like? Why is C++ still deeply valued, and where can your...
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Presenters
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Brian Leone

Recruiter, Bloomberg
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Pri Trivedi

Recruiter, Bloomberg
Tuesday September 15, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  Business & Career

12:30 MDT

[Open Content] The Death of Flow? How AI Changed Programming — and How to Get Joy Back
Tuesday September 15, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
AI is changing how we code — we prompt more, type less, and review instead of create. Productivity may be up, but many developers feel the loss of flow, reduced ownership, and a sense that the craft is slipping away. What if we're looking for joy in the wrong place? This talk explores how AI reshapes the experience of programming. We'll revisit what made it fulfilling — solving problems,...
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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 →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Tooling & Ecosystem

13:00 MDT

Poster Presenter sessions
Tuesday September 15, 2026 13:00 - 13:55 MDT
Exhibit Hall
Poster presenters will be available for an additional Q&A at their posters, in case you weren't able to make the session Sunday night, or if you would like to discuss the presented topics in more detail.
Tuesday September 15, 2026 13:00 - 13:55 MDT
Exhibit Hall
  Open Content

14:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Loops in C++
Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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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Nicolai Josuttis

Author and Teacher
I teach and teach and teach and teach C++. For centuries. Still learning this language. However in principle, C++ is no longer teachable...
Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Back to Basics

14:00 MDT

What Are We Synchronizing?
Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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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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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Embedded

14:00 MDT

Inside a Small Game Engine: An Architecture Tour in Modern C++
Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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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 co-founder of indie game studio Team KwaKwa.
Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  GameDev

14:00 MDT

Running Compiler Explorer in 2026: Sandboxes, Storage, and Strangers' Code
Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado A
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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Matt Godbolt

Programmer and sometime verb, Hudson River Trading
Matt Godbolt is the creator of the Compiler Explorer website. He is passionate about writing efficient code. He works for Hudson River Trading on cool and interesting performance things. He's previously hacked on mobile apps at Google, run his own C++ tools company and spent more... Read More →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado A
  General

14:00 MDT

Using Modules in a Real Project
Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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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Erez Strauss

C++ System Architect
Erez Strauss worked in Banks and Hedge Funds while focused on low latency systems.
Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  General

14:00 MDT

C++ at Scale
Tuesday September 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado B
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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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
Colorado B
  Software Design

15:15 MDT

Good boss, bad boss: how to be a good manager, and how to manage a bad one.
Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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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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 →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Business & Career

15:15 MDT

Hacking and Securing C++
Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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Marcell Juhasz

Embedded Software Developer, Zühlke Group
Marcell Juhasz is a systems software engineer at Zühlke Engineering, specializing in high-performance C++ and low-level software development, with a growing focus on embedded cybersecurity. His work focuses on building efficient, reliable systems that operate close to the hardware... Read More →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Embedded

15:15 MDT

C++ in an AI World
Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado B
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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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
Colorado B
  General

15:15 MDT

Lock-Free Timer Scheduling With C++ Atomics
Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado A
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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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
Colorado A
  General

15:15 MDT

Compile-Time Polymorphism for Runtime-Flexible Systems: Lessons from OpenJDK
Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Homestead 3/4
Your system supports multiple strategies, with the user selecting one at startup, but each strategy must handle different semantics. Traditional runtime polymorphism can require a virtual override for every combination, making code harder to extend and easier to get wrong This talk shows how OpenJDK solves this problem by using a layered architecture of compile-time patterns with a runtime...
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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. He has contributed to the garbage collector, with a focus on performance and scalability. He enjoys building C++ prototypes to explore systems design... Read More →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Software Design

15:15 MDT

C++ Core Guidelines Enforcement in Practice
Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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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Paul Jansen

CEO, TIOBE Software BV
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 →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  Tooling & Ecosystem

16:45 MDT

Back to Basics: std::unordered_map
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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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 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Back to Basics

16:45 MDT

Ensuring Code Quality in the Age of AI : More Code, Less Engineering!
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado A
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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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 →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado A
  Business & Career

16:45 MDT

You’re absolutely wrong! How to get agents to solve complex problems with complex code.
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado B
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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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 →
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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 →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado B
  General

16:45 MDT

Practical HPC — Forcing the Compiler's Hand with Modern C++
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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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Marco Barbone

Software Engineer, Simons Foundation
Marco Barbone is a Software Engineer in the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, in New York. His work focuses on high-performance computing, SIMD optimization, and GPU/FPGA programming — making scientific software run as fast as the... Read More →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Scientific Computing

16:45 MDT

Using Type Erasure to Extend APIs You Don't Own: A Case Study From Audio Plugin Development
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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

C++ Speaker, think-cell
I'm a C++ developer, conference speaker, and online course creator at think-cell.
My background is in audio plugin and app development.
I work from home in Katowice, Poland.
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Software Design

16:45 MDT

From User to Contributor: Fixing Bugs and Adding Features in Clang
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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
MI

Matheus Izvekov

I am a compiler engineer working on Clang, employed by the C++ Alliance.
Tuesday September 15, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  Tooling & Ecosystem

18:30 MDT

[Open Content] One C++26 App Three Ways: By Hand, By AI, and Together
Tuesday September 15, 2026 18:30 - 20:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
AI coding demos almost always use well-understood applications with canonical architectures. What happens when you build a one-of-a-kind C++26 application instead of another TypeScript web app?I’ll use detailed metrics to compare the same application built three ways:Manually with the latest C++26 featuresVibe coding it with the latest AIIn collaboration with AIThe code, the experience, and the...
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Mike Spertus

Chief Product Officer, Kodamai
Mike Spertus is Chief Product Officer at Kodamai, a company applying category theory and formal methods to AI Governance. He also teaches Advanced C++, Generative AI, and Big Data at the University of Chicago, and was a long-time member of the C++ standards committee. Previous roles... Read More →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 18:30 - 20:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Tooling & Ecosystem

20:30 MDT

C++: The Documentary
Tuesday September 15, 2026 20:30 - 22:00 MDT
Colorado A

Tuesday September 15, 2026 20:30 - 22:00 MDT
Colorado A
  Social
 
Wednesday, September 16
 

09:00 MDT

Escaping the AST: A Data-Oriented, Lock-Free Parallel Compiler Architecture
Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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.
Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Embedded

09:00 MDT

Awaiters and Awaitables
Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado A
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
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Mateusz Pusz

C++ Trainer, Train IT
Mateusz Pusz is a C++ architect and voting member of the ISO C++ Committee (WG21), with 100% meeting attendance since 2017. As an active contributor to Library Evolution, he originated variable template template parameters (P2008, now part of C++26), co-authored heterogeneous lookup... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado A
  General

09:00 MDT

Breaking the Speed Limit: Building a High-Throughput Hashing Engine With C++26
Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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
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Yannic Staudt

co-founder, tipi.build
Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  General

09:00 MDT

AI is UB with Better PR
Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado B
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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MK
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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 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado B
  Robotics & AI

09:00 MDT

CUDA Tile C++: Practical Automatic Parallelization for the GPU
Wednesday September 16, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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Ezra Stein

Senior Compiler Engineer, NVIDIA
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
Red Rock 6/7
  Scientific Computing

10:30 MDT

How C++26 changes the way we write code
Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado A
The upcoming C++26 Standard is a major update of the language and one of the most impactful releases in the history of C++.std::simd transforms high-performance C++ by raising vectorisation to a portable standard abstraction. The new sender/receiver execution library provides a powerful generic framework that redefines asynchronous programming in C++. Contract assertions introduce scalable and...
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Timur Doumler

Senior Software Engineer, Citadel Securities
Timur Doumler is a software engineer specialising in low-latency and real-time C++. He works at Citadel Securities and is an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee, where he has (co-)authored many successful proposals including [[assume]], std::inplace_vector, and contract... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado A
  Plenary

12:00 MDT

QRT Community Lunch
Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:00 - 14:00 MDT
Colorado C
Take a break from the sessions and join fellow C++ community members
for lunch and conversation.

Sherry Sontag will host the discussion.

The Qube Research and Technologies team will be there throughout. Come say hello and chat with
them about opportunities at QRT and what it's like to work on C++
there.

Advance registration was required for this lunch and is now closed.
Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:00 - 14:00 MDT
Colorado C
  Social

12:30 MDT

[Open Content] C++23: Ask Me Anything and Book Signing
Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
C++23 is the latest evolution in modern C++ programming that is now fully supported by the latest versions of GCC, Clang, and Visual C++.As the first release after introducing several new key features with C++20, which can be seen as the beginning of a new release cycle, it contains both significant extensions and improvement of various features introduced with C++20 and a couple of new language...
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Nicolai Josuttis

Author and Teacher
I teach and teach and teach and teach C++. For centuries. Still learning this language. However in principle, C++ is no longer teachable...
Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Software Design

13:00 MDT

Official ISO C++ WG21 SG meeting of low latency/embedded/games/finance and Machine Learning
Wednesday September 16, 2026 13:00 - 16:30 MDT
Red Rock 1

Presenters
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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 13:00 - 16:30 MDT
Red Rock 1
  ISO / WG21

14:00 MDT

Embedded-Friendly C++: Modern Features That Make a Difference
Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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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Andreas Fertig

C++ Trainer & Consultant
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
Red Rock 8/9
  Embedded

14:00 MDT

Turbocharging Native Code Performance: Compiler Optimizations, Profile-guided Optimizations, and Beyond
Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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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Eric Brumer

Engineering Manager, MSVC, Microsoft
Eric is an engineering manager on the Microsoft C++ Team, working on the compiler back-end.
Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  GameDev

14:00 MDT

Rule of 0,1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10?
Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado A
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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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!
Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado A
  General

14:00 MDT

The Ghost in the Heap: Defeating a Memory Thief
Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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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
Red Rock 6/7
  General

14:00 MDT

Refactoring Techniques and Strategies (a Tale in Three Acts)
Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado B
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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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
Colorado B
  Software Design

14:00 MDT

Automatic Splitting of Translation Units: Compiler-Agnostic Compiler Frontend Parallelization
Wednesday September 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
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Damien Buhl

co-founder, tipi.build by EngFlow
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
Homestead 3/4
  Tooling & Ecosystem

15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Memory Alignment
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado B
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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Presenters
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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 →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado B
  Back to Basics

15:15 MDT

C++ Views and Pipelines
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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
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Nicolai Josuttis

Author and Teacher
I teach and teach and teach and teach C++. For centuries. Still learning this language. However in principle, C++ is no longer teachable...
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  General

15:15 MDT

Our Journey Toward a Fully Backward-Compatible, UB-Safe, ISO C++
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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
JL

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 →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  General

15:15 MDT

Readable Async Workflows in Modern C++: Coroutines Meet std::expected
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
avatar for Futong Liu

Futong Liu

Software Engineer, Bloomberg
Futong Liu is a software engineer at Bloomberg, where he works on distributed back-end systems for financial infrastructure, with a focus on trading systems built in modern C++. His work spans asynchronous programming, service orchestration, and event-driven workflows in production... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  General

15:15 MDT

You Shall Not Pass*!
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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Daniel Pfeifer

Senior Software Engineer
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  General

15:15 MDT

Queue Discipline: A Deep Dive into Lock-Free SPSC, MPSC, SPMC, and MPMC Queues in Modern C++
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado A
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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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 →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado A
  Software Design

16:45 MDT

Graphics Programming with SDL 3 Part 2
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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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avatar for Mike Shah

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 →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  GameDev

16:45 MDT

Modern C++ Techniques to Reduce Boilerplate Without Sacrificing Performance
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado A
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
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VISHNU G NATH

Software Technical Lead, Applied Materials
Seasoned software developer with over 8 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
Colorado A
  General

16:45 MDT

Prioritizing Pretty-printers
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
Working with C++ code can be difficult, and it's made even more difficult when the code isn't your own. Everyone agrees that documentation is necessary when sharing a library. But, as a user of a library, the documentation may not help when you want to know the current state of your program. If you're a veteran C++ programmer then you may easily find your way around memory readouts, putting print...
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Braden Ganetsky

Braden Ganetsky graduated from the University of Manitoba with a degree in mechanical engineering, fueled by his passion for mechanical puzzles. During his final year of school, when all classes and activities were remote, he discovered C++ and has been hooked ever since. He interned... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  General

16:45 MDT

Processor Design and C++ Memory Models
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado B
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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avatar for Ofek Shilon

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 →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado B
  General

16:45 MDT

The Clocks of C++: Knowing When (and Why) to Use Each One
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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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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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  General

16:45 MDT

My DAG Ate All My Cores: Identifying and Resolving Build Graph Bottlenecks
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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Florent Castelli

Software Engineer, EngFlow
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Tooling & Ecosystem

18:15 MDT

Boost.Documentary (Audience Preview Screening)
Wednesday September 16, 2026 18:15 - 21:00 MDT
Colorado A
Boost has always been run by its community. Nothing got in without review, nobody's library was above being argued. The Boost.Documentary filmmakers want their film held to the same standard. Join the test screening and ensure your thoughts are reflected in the general release cut!The True Stories team will be on site during this Audience Preview Screening.True Stories is the two-time Image...
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Wednesday September 16, 2026 18:15 - 21:00 MDT
Colorado A
  Open Content

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
 
Thursday, September 17
 

09:00 MDT

Tying up Loose Threads: Making Your Project No-GIL Ready
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
avatar for Charlie Lin

Charlie Lin

Freelancer, N/A
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Tooling & Ecosystem

09:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Lambdas, Function Objects, and std::function
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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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Roth Michaels

Director of Software Research, inMusic
Roth Michaels is Director of Software Research at inMusic, the family of music technology and consumer electronics brands behind Akai Professional, Moog Music, M-Audio, Denon DJ, and Native Instruments, among others. He stepped into this role following inMusic's 2026 acquisition of... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Back to Basics

09:00 MDT

Beyond Monads: Pattern Matching Alternatives for Result Types
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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
avatar for Vitaly Fanaskov

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
Red Rock 6/7
  General

09:00 MDT

Building C++20 Modules: The Rest of the Story
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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
avatar for Vito Gamberini

Vito Gamberini

Senior R&D Engineer, Kitware
Coding build systems to build systems code.
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  General

09:00 MDT

Composing the Future: Async Workflows with std::execution
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado B
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
avatar for Alistair Fisher

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 →
avatar for Ivy Zhang

Ivy Zhang

Bloomberg LP
Ivy is a Software Engineer at Bloomberg, where she works on the company's high throughput multi-asset execution management system. She is a Technical Rep at Bloomberg and active member of C++ Guild. She holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Chemical Biological Engineering... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado B
  General

09:00 MDT

Writing Low-Latency C++: Predictability, Cache, and the Architectures Underneath
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado A
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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avatar for Sampad Acharya

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
Colorado A
  General

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
Homestead 3/4
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
KJ

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
Homestead 3/4
  Tooling & Ecosystem

10:30 MDT

The Address is Not The Place: Object Residency in C++26
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado A
Random Access Memory is what you buy when you don’t know what your program will do next. Until recently, alternative tiers of memory with vastly different latency characteristics were largely speculative. Then DRAM got expensive. CXL memory pools, far memory, even high bandwidth flash moved from blips to serious contenders. C++ has grown its vocabulary for ownership (smart pointers) and...
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Presenters
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Laurie Kirk

Researcher, Google
Laurie Kirk is a researcher at Google specializing in C++, reverse engineering, and deobfuscation. She runs a YouTube channel (@LaurieWired) that covers all sorts of in-depth research topics on reverse engineering, programming, and software optimizations. She has spoken at multiple... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:30 - 12:00 MDT
Colorado A
  Plenary

12:30 MDT

[Open Content ] The Barrier Is a Myth: Becoming a Boost Maintainer
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
Becoming a Boost maintainer makes you a stronger C++ engineer than any day job can. You work across the whole language, C++03 through C++26, mentored by the experts who wrote the libraries the standard borrowed from. Your name ends up on software that outlives the role you did it for, in a community small enough to be known in.The barrier is far lower than people think. This talk answers the two...
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Presenters
AB

Arnaud Becheler

Software Engineer, The C++ Alliance
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Tooling & Ecosystem

14:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Containers 1/2
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
Choosing the right Standard Library container and using it correctly can have a profound impact on the performance of a program, but what may appear to be the obvious choice can turn out to be the wrong one. In this two-part series we will explore the abstractions each container models and the practical limitations it imposes. We will see that choosing between them requires an understanding not...
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Presenters
avatar for Alan Talbot

Alan Talbot

Founder & Principal Consultant, Graphire Consulting
Alan Talbot is a software architect and engineer specializing in C++. He began his career as a pioneer in professional music notation software and later built engineering platforms for GIS map creation and railroad simulation. He has been a C++ programmer since 1990 and an active... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Back to Basics

14:00 MDT

MrDocs: Reliable Reference Documentation for C++ Using the Clang AST
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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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Alan de Freitas

Staff Engineer, The C++ Alliance
Alan de Freitas is a Staff Engineer at The C++ Alliance and one of its earliest members. He designed the architecture of MrDocs, the Alliance's open-source documentation generator for modern C++, built directly on the Clang and LLVM compiler front end and now being adopted across... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  General

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
Red Rock 8/9
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
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Lieven de Cock

Founder, CppDriven
Lieven is a passionate software developer, architect, team lead, manager, coach, mentor, with 30 years of experience. He is passionate about C++, software craftsmanship, and clean code. His career started in the text-to-speech domain and then moved to video recognition technology... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  General

14:00 MDT

What Is Your Algorithmic Core?
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
ES

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
Homestead 3/4
  General

14:00 MDT

When Zero-Cost Abstractions Aren’t Zero-Cost
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado A
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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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
Colorado A
  General

14:00 MDT

Generating Language Bindings using C++ Reflection
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado B
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
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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 →
Thursday September 17, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 MDT
Colorado B
  Tooling & Ecosystem

15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Containers 2/2
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
Choosing the right Standard Library container and using it correctly can have a profound impact on the performance of a program, but what may appear to be the obvious choice can turn out to be the wrong one. In this two-part series we will explore the abstractions each container models and the practical limitations it imposes. We will see that choosing between them requires an understanding not...
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Presenters
avatar for Alan Talbot

Alan Talbot

Founder & Principal Consultant, Graphire Consulting
Alan Talbot is a software architect and engineer specializing in C++. He began his career as a pioneer in professional music notation software and later built engineering platforms for GIS map creation and railroad simulation. He has been a C++ programmer since 1990 and an active... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Back to Basics

15:15 MDT

Leveraging LLM to Generate Unittests for Notifiers in Taskflow
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
SS

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
Homestead 3/4
  General

15:15 MDT

The Biggest Misconception of Computer Science
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
From our very first algorithms class, we are taught a simple rule: a better Big-O complexity means a faster algorithm. We spend years mastering asymptotic analysis, memorizing complexity tables, and losing sleep over worst-case scenarios. Big-O becomes a mental shortcut for “good” and “bad” code. But the real world doesn’t run on whiteboards. Modern performance is shaped far more by...
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Presenters
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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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  General

15:15 MDT

The C++ safety issues your tools can't see
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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
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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 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  General

15:15 MDT

Ranges Without Compromises: Designing for Simplicity, Performance, and Composability
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado B
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 runtime...
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Presenters
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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 →
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado B
  Software Design

15:15 MDT

Modernizing Legacy Codebases without Stopping the World
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado A
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
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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 →
Thursday September 17, 2026 15:15 - 16:15 MDT
Colorado A
  Tooling & Ecosystem

16:45 MDT

Extending Google Test for Statistical Benchmarking, CUDA Profiling, and CI Performance Regression
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:15 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
KG

Kevin Gomez

Flight Software Engineer, Lux Aeterna
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:15 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Tooling & Ecosystem

16:45 MDT

Back to Basics: Computer Systems
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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
avatar for Mike Shah

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 →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  Back to Basics

16:45 MDT

Meet Guy Davidson
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado B
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 convenor of the C++ Standards Committee.

He is also the Head of Engineering at Six Impossible Things 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 sta... Read More →
SS

Sherry Sontag

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

16:45 MDT

A Duck Does More Than Quack: Synthesizing VTables with C++26 Reflection
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
C++26 reflection was designed so that it could open doors that have been shut since the creation of the language. One of the most firmly bolted doors — type erasure — can be broken down by pushing our new code generation capabilities to their limit. Introducing duck, an open-source library built to harness this new power. So far, reflection gives us just one function to generate code: define...
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Presenters
RK

Ryan Keane

Ryan Keane is a second-year computer science student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the creator of duck, a C++ reflection library for non-intrusive interfaces. After writing a blog post about the library's internals, he was invited to speak at CppCon and is now collaborating... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  General

16:45 MDT

Who Is #include-ing You? Measuring the Impact of C++ Libraries
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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
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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 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  General

16:45 MDT

Writing High Performance Parsers Using State Machines
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado A
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 →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:45 - 17:45 MDT
Colorado A
  General

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
Homestead 3/4
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
avatar for Tim van Deurzen

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
Homestead 3/4
  General

18:30 MDT

Meet the Presenters Banquet (Susquehanna)
Thursday September 17, 2026 18:30 - 20:30 MDT
Colorado C/D
The Meet the Presenters Banquet is presented in partnership with Susquehanna and 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
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
Thursday September 17, 2026 20:30 - 22:00 MDT
Colorado B
  Open Content
 
Friday, September 18
 

09:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Text Formatting
Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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
avatar for Ben Saks

Ben Saks

President, Saks & Associates
Ben Saks is the president 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 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Back to Basics

09:00 MDT

The Next 20 Weeks of Systems Engineering
Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado B
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
avatar for Andrei Alexandrescu

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
Colorado B
  Business & Career

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
Colorado A
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
avatar for Kris Jusiak

Kris Jusiak

Lead Software Engineer, Citadel Securities
Nanosecond count
Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Colorado A
  General

09:00 MDT

CMake: Making Hard Things Easy
Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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
avatar for Bill Hoffman

Bill Hoffman

CTO, Kitware
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 →
Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  General

09:00 MDT

Safety in Numbers
Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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
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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!
Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  Scientific Computing

09:00 MDT

Code Like a Library Author: How to Write Better C++ Application Code
Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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
avatar for Jon Kalb

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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Software Design

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
Homestead 3/4
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
avatar for Darijo Topic

Darijo Topic

Embedded Software Engineer
Darijo is an embedded firmware engineer at Mettler Toledo in Zurich, where he develops C++ firmware for automated laboratory reactor platforms. His daily work spans microcontrollers, real-time control, and the Zephyr RTOS ecosystem, with a focus on bringing modern C++ practices into... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Embedded

10:30 MDT

What can C++26 reflection do for you?: A practical experiment in using reflection with an emphasis on binary protocol support
Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
Colorado A
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
avatar for Andy Webber

Andy Webber

Technologist, Susquehanna
My name is Andy Webber and I work at Susquhanna 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... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
Colorado A
  General

10:30 MDT

Senders, Receivers, and Robots: Structured Concurrency for Autonomous Navigation
Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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
avatar for Nahuel Espinosa

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
Red Rock 6/7
  Robotics & AI

10:30 MDT

IEEE 754 Decimals for C++: The Boost.Decimal Library
Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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
avatar for Matt Borland

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
Red Rock 8/9
  Scientific Computing

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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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
avatar for Jessica Ding

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
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Software Design

10:30 MDT

Mock Any Function in C++ Without Changing a Single Line of Code
Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
Colorado B
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
avatar for Ilya Ermakov

Ilya Ermakov

Software Engineer, Bloomberg L.P.
Ilya Ermakov is a Software Engineer at Bloomberg working on Distributed Systems and C++ tooling. Ilya holds a Computer Science degree from Vanderbilt University.
BR

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 →
avatar for Ruifeng Zhang

Ruifeng Zhang

Software Engineering Team Lead, Bloomberg LP
Ruifeng Zhang is a software engineering team lead at Bloomberg, where he works on data entitlement systems. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he worked primarily on hardware related projects for CPU development. His interests include testing, performance, API design, and reliability. He... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 MDT
Colorado B
  Tooling & Ecosystem

12:00 MDT

[Open Content] Refactoring C++ : Techniques, Smells, and Discussion
Friday September 18, 2026 12:00 - 13:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
Martin Fowler's Classic book "Refactoring" presents a list of refactorings (72 in his first edition, 61 in his second, "lots" on his website) and common "Code Smells".  These are not language specific, but are very "OO Design Patterns" flavored and are less applicable to C++ than we'd like.This hour-long session will start with a ~30 minute overview of some C++ specific code smells and...
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avatar for Dave Steffen

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 →
Friday September 18, 2026 12:00 - 13:00 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Software Design

13:30 MDT

Back to Basics: Function Overloading
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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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chris ryan

Software Engineer (Emeritus)
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 fundamentals of the core language mechanisms.ISO-Cpp/WG21... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  Back to Basics

13:30 MDT

Code You Didn't Write: Understanding Large and Unfamiliar Codebases
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Colorado B
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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avatar for Chris Croft-White

Chris Croft-White

Staff Solutions Architect, Undo
Chris Croft-White is a Staff Solutions Architect at Undo, where he works at the intersection of debugging technology and developer productivity. With a career spanning field applications engineering, security, and technical pre-sales, he brings a practitioner's perspective to the... Read More →
avatar for Mike Shah

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

13:30 MDT

Thinking Low Level, Writing High Level
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Colorado A
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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IB

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 →
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Colorado A
  Embedded

13:30 MDT

The Real Story of C++26: Beyond the Headline Features
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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avatar for Sandor Dargo

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 →
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  General

13:30 MDT

When Air Gaps Learn: AI, Data, and the New C++ Attack Surface
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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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avatar for Matthew Butler

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 →
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Homestead 3/4
  Robotics & AI

13:30 MDT

Implementing Async RAII
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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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avatar for Robert Leahy

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 →
Friday September 18, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Scientific Computing

14:45 MDT

Back to Basics: C++20 Concepts
Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
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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avatar for Amir Kirsh

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 →
Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
Willow Lake 3/4/5
  Back to Basics

14:45 MDT

The Value of Idiomatic Code
Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
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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avatar for John Pavan

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 →
Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
Red Rock 6/7
  Business & Career

14:45 MDT

Escaping 1996: Meta-Modern C++ Techniques for Embedded Systems
Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
Homestead 3/4
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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avatar for Michael Caisse

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
Homestead 3/4
  Embedded

14:45 MDT

In Pursuit of a 6,000 FPS Game Boy Emulator
Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
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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avatar for Tom Tesch

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 →
Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
Red Rock 8/9
  GameDev

14:45 MDT

What 25 Days of Optimisations Taught Me About Compilers
Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
Colorado A
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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avatar for Matt Godbolt

Matt Godbolt

Programmer and sometime verb, Hudson River Trading
Matt Godbolt is the creator of the Compiler Explorer website. He is passionate about writing efficient code. He works for Hudson River Trading on cool and interesting performance things. He's previously hacked on mobile apps at Google, run his own C++ tools company and spent more... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
Colorado A
  General

14:45 MDT

Concurrency for Modern CPUs - Lock-Free or Lock-based?
Friday September 18, 2026 14:45 - 15:45 MDT
Colorado B
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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avatar for Fedor Pikus

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
Colorado B
  Scientific Computing

16:15 MDT

C++: Growing in a world of efficiency, safety, and AI
Friday September 18, 2026 16:15 - 18:00 MDT
Colorado A
C++ is adding major expressive power (e.g., reflection) and addressing weaknesses (e.g., memory safety hardening) at exactly the moment when chip supply and power budgets are raising the value of what people came to C++ for in the first place: control over memory layout (space) and deterministic performance (time). This talk is about that convergence, in two parts.First, we cover the latest...
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avatar for Herb Sutter

Herb Sutter

Technical fellow, Citadel Securities

Friday September 18, 2026 16:15 - 18:00 MDT
Colorado A
  Plenary
 
Saturday, September 19
 

09:00 MDT

AI++ 201: Building High Quality C++ Infrastructure with AI
Saturday September 19, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 5
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageIn a previous conference talk, I demonstrated building a complete OPRA feed handler without writing a single line of code by hand. Over the two days of this workshop, you’re going to do something even more difficult. We’re building a matching engine. Not a toy, one that conforms to IEX specifications, with the kind...
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avatar for Jody Hagins

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.


Saturday September 19, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 5
  Education and Coaching

09:00 MDT

Function and Class Design with C++2x
Saturday September 19, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 6
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageC++20 to C++26 brings a massive number of new language and library features – which can feel overwhelming to developers coming from older standards. This tutorial focuses on introducing those tools and how to use them in construction of functions and classes — which are the foundation of C++ programs. The tutorial is...
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avatar for Jeff Garland

Jeff Garland

CrystalClear Software
Jeff Garland has worked on many large-scale, distributed software projects over the past 30+ years. The systems span many different domains including telephone switching, industrial process control, satellite ground control, ip-based communications, and financial systems. He has written... Read More →
Saturday September 19, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 6
  Education and Coaching

09:00 MDT

High-performance Concurrency in C++
Saturday September 19, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 7
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageThis course is designed to empower participants with the knowledge and skills required to unlock the full potential of high-performance concurrency in C++. By delving into fundamental principles and advanced techniques, attendees will gain a profound understanding of how to design, implement, and optimize concurrent...
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Presenters
avatar for Fedor Pikus

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 →
Saturday September 19, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 7
  Education and Coaching
 
Sunday, September 20
 

09:00 MDT

AI++ 201: Building High Quality C++ Infrastructure with AI
Sunday September 20, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 5
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageIn a previous conference talk, I demonstrated building a complete OPRA feed handler without writing a single line of code by hand. Over the two days of this workshop, you’re going to do something even more difficult. We’re building a matching engine. Not a toy, one that conforms to IEX specifications, with the kind...
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Presenters
avatar for Jody Hagins

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.


Sunday September 20, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 5
  Education and Coaching

09:00 MDT

Function and Class Design with C++2x
Sunday September 20, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 6
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageC++20 to C++26 brings a massive number of new language and library features – which can feel overwhelming to developers coming from older standards. This tutorial focuses on introducing those tools and how to use them in construction of functions and classes — which are the foundation of C++ programs. The tutorial is...
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Presenters
avatar for Jeff Garland

Jeff Garland

CrystalClear Software
Jeff Garland has worked on many large-scale, distributed software projects over the past 30+ years. The systems span many different domains including telephone switching, industrial process control, satellite ground control, ip-based communications, and financial systems. He has written... Read More →
Sunday September 20, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 6
  Education and Coaching

09:00 MDT

High-performance Concurrency in C++
Sunday September 20, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 7
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageThis course is designed to empower participants with the knowledge and skills required to unlock the full potential of high-performance concurrency in C++. By delving into fundamental principles and advanced techniques, attendees will gain a profound understanding of how to design, implement, and optimize concurrent...
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Presenters
avatar for Fedor Pikus

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 →
Sunday September 20, 2026 09:00 - 17:15 MDT
Red Rock 7
  Education and Coaching
 
Monday, September 21
 

09:00 MDT

C++ Fundamentals You Wish You Had Known Earlier
Monday September 21, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **C++ is a complex programming language. When used correctly, it delivers the best possible performance. Unfortunately, it is often misused, which causes many problems.However, it turns out that consciously using selected language features can make it relatively easy to produce high-quality software that delivers excellent runtime...
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avatar for Mateusz Pusz

Mateusz Pusz

C++ Trainer, Train IT
Mateusz Pusz is a C++ architect and voting member of the ISO C++ Committee (WG21), with 100% meeting attendance since 2017. As an active contributor to Library Evolution, he originated variable template template parameters (P2008, now part of C++26), co-authored heterogeneous lookup... Read More →
Monday September 21, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
  Education and Coaching

09:00 MDT

C++23 in Practice: A Complete Introduction
Monday September 21, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageC++23 is now fully available by major C++ compilers so that more and more projects and companies are using it. Therefore, it is time to look at the contents of C++23 (new features and significant extensions in both the language and the standard library).This three-days training introduces and discusses all major language...
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avatar for Nicolai Josuttis

Nicolai Josuttis

Author and Teacher
I teach and teach and teach and teach C++. For centuries. Still learning this language. However in principle, C++ is no longer teachable...
Monday September 21, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
  Education and Coaching
 
Tuesday, September 22
 

09:00 MDT

C++ Fundamentals You Wish You Had Known Earlier
Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **C++ is a complex programming language. When used correctly, it delivers the best possible performance. Unfortunately, it is often misused, which causes many problems.However, it turns out that consciously using selected language features can make it relatively easy to produce high-quality software that delivers excellent runtime...
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Presenters
avatar for Mateusz Pusz

Mateusz Pusz

C++ Trainer, Train IT
Mateusz Pusz is a C++ architect and voting member of the ISO C++ Committee (WG21), with 100% meeting attendance since 2017. As an active contributor to Library Evolution, he originated variable template template parameters (P2008, now part of C++26), co-authored heterogeneous lookup... Read More →
Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
  Education and Coaching

09:00 MDT

C++23 in Practice: A Complete Introduction
Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageC++23 is now fully available by major C++ compilers so that more and more projects and companies are using it. Therefore, it is time to look at the contents of C++23 (new features and significant extensions in both the language and the standard library).This three-days training introduces and discusses all major language...
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avatar for Nicolai Josuttis

Nicolai Josuttis

Author and Teacher
I teach and teach and teach and teach C++. For centuries. Still learning this language. However in principle, C++ is no longer teachable...
Tuesday September 22, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
  Education and Coaching
 
Wednesday, September 23
 

09:00 MDT

C++ Fundamentals You Wish You Had Known Earlier
Wednesday September 23, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **C++ is a complex programming language. When used correctly, it delivers the best possible performance. Unfortunately, it is often misused, which causes many problems.However, it turns out that consciously using selected language features can make it relatively easy to produce high-quality software that delivers excellent runtime...
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Presenters
avatar for Mateusz Pusz

Mateusz Pusz

C++ Trainer, Train IT
Mateusz Pusz is a C++ architect and voting member of the ISO C++ Committee (WG21), with 100% meeting attendance since 2017. As an active contributor to Library Evolution, he originated variable template template parameters (P2008, now part of C++26), co-authored heterogeneous lookup... Read More →
Wednesday September 23, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
  Education and Coaching

09:00 MDT

C++23 in Practice: A Complete Introduction
Wednesday September 23, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageC++23 is now fully available by major C++ compilers so that more and more projects and companies are using it. Therefore, it is time to look at the contents of C++23 (new features and significant extensions in both the language and the standard library).This three-days training introduces and discusses all major language...
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Presenters
avatar for Nicolai Josuttis

Nicolai Josuttis

Author and Teacher
I teach and teach and teach and teach C++. For centuries. Still learning this language. However in principle, C++ is no longer teachable...
Wednesday September 23, 2026 09:00 - 15:00 MDT
  Education and Coaching
 
Saturday, September 26
 

09:00 MDT

Using C++ for Low-Latency Systems
Saturday September 26, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 MDT
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageThis course will focus on techniques programmers can use to get better, more predictable or more stable performance from systems with low-latency constraints. It is subdivided in sections that cover subsets of the subject matter; each section discusses C++ features that help achieving the section’s objectives, with...
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avatar for Patrice Roy

Patrice Roy

Professor, Université de Sherbrooke
Patrice Roy has been playing with C++, either professionally, for pleasure or (most of the time) both for over 30 years. After a few years doing R&D and working on military flight simulators, he moved on to academics and has been teaching computer science since 1998. Since 2005, he’s... Read More →
Saturday September 26, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 MDT
  Education and Coaching
 
Sunday, September 27
 

09:00 MDT

Using C++ for Low-Latency Systems
Sunday September 27, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 MDT
** Separate registration is required for CppCon Academy Classes. **Class PageThis course will focus on techniques programmers can use to get better, more predictable or more stable performance from systems with low-latency constraints. It is subdivided in sections that cover subsets of the subject matter; each section discusses C++ features that help achieving the section’s objectives, with...
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Presenters
avatar for Patrice Roy

Patrice Roy

Professor, Université de Sherbrooke
Patrice Roy has been playing with C++, either professionally, for pleasure or (most of the time) both for over 30 years. After a few years doing R&D and working on military flight simulators, he moved on to academics and has been teaching computer science since 1998. Since 2005, he’s... Read More →
Sunday September 27, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 MDT
  Education and Coaching
 

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