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CppCon 2026

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Modern C++: When Efficiency MattersAndreas Fertig

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Modern C++: When Efficiency MattersAndreas Fertig

09:00 MDT

Modern C++: When Efficiency MattersAndreas Fertig

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Advanced and Modern C++ Programming: The Tricky Parts Homestead 1Nicolai Josuttis C++ Best Practices Willow Lake 3Jason Turner Performance and Efficiency in C++ for Experts, Future Experts, and Everyone Else Willow Lake 4Fedor Pikus Talking Tech Willow Lake 5Sherry Sontag

09:00 MDT

Advanced and Modern C++ Programming: The Tricky Parts Homestead 1Nicolai Josuttis AI++ 101: Build a C++ Coding Agent from Scratch Homestead 2Jody Hagins C++ Best Practices Willow Lake 3Jason Turner Performance and Efficiency in C++ for Experts, Future Experts, and Everyone Else Willow Lake 4Fedor Pikus Talking Tech Willow Lake 5Sherry Sontag

10:30 MDT

Field Trip: Red Rocks & Dinosaur Ridge Rockies Square

17:30 MDT

Tee Shirt Night Gaylord Rockies

20:00 MDT

Registration Reception (Search Technology) Colorado Pre-function

08:00 MDT

Registration CppCache

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Profiles for simplicity and guarantees Colorado ABjarne Stroustrup

10:15 MDT

Conference Group Photo Colorado A

11:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Move Semantics Willow Lake 3/4/5Ruslan Arutyunyan From 20 Nanoseconds to One: Optimizing Bishop, Rook, and Queen Move Generation in a Chess Engine Red Rock 6/7Aryan Naraghi Are You Smarter Than A Branch Predictor? Colorado BMichelle D'Souza C++26: A Curated Tour of What's New Colorado AMarc Gregoire From Firmware to Screen: Real-Time Control, Simulation, and Visualization in C++23 With CUDA and Unreal Engine Red Rock 8/9Kevin Gomez Same Bits Without Losing MIPS: Reproducible Numerics at Full Hardware Speed Homestead 3/4Andrew Drakeford

12:30 MDT

[Open Content] C++26 Reflection on Windows with Visual Studio Code and WSL Red Rock 6/7Koen Samyn

14:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Templates Willow Lake 3/4/5Laurent Carlier Pointers to Power: Navigating Organizational Influence Homestead 3/4Matt Kulukundis Beyond the Scheduler: Designing Predictable Embedded Systems in Modern C++ Red Rock 8/9Elbert Dockery Component based or monolithic development for large C and C++ projects: Why not both? Red Rock 6/7Diego Rodriguez-Losada Gonzalez Towards a complete contract-assertion facility for C++ Colorado BTimur Doumler Familiar C++ Patterns That Fail at Scale and the Design Shifts That Prevent Them Colorado ADivya Chandrasekar • Devpriya Dave

15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Code Analysis Red Rock 6/7Alexsandro Thomas The journey to "/W4 /WX": How hard could it be? Red Rock 8/9Keith Stockdale std::simd Without Compromise: SIMD in C++26 and Beyond, as Fast as Silicon Allows Colorado BRuslan Arutyunyan • Daniel Towner The Latency Slippage: Understanding the Hidden Costs of Caching for Low Latency C++ Colorado ASanchit Gupta Capability Routing Grid: From Decoupled Plugins to the Hardware Ceiling Homestead 3/4Cyril TISSIER Catching Leaks: How to stop a C++ program at the exact instruction that leaks memory Willow Lake 3/4/5Henning Meyer

16:45 MDT

Back to Basics: const, constexpr, consteval Colorado AAndreas Fertig AEMBER: Modern Embedded C++ Without the Chaos Homestead 3/4Arian Ajdari Zero Cost Scripting Languages for Game Engines With C++26 Static Reflection Willow Lake 3/4/5Koen Samyn C++ in the Age of AI: How Visual Studio Is Evolving Red Rock 6/7David Li • Augustin Popa Why Great C++ Libraries Fail (And How to Fix That) Colorado BMateusz Pusz Works on My Machine, Works in CI: Treating Your Build Toolchain as a Dependency Red Rock 8/9Luis Caro Campos

19:00 MDT

HRT Happy Hour Mountain Pass Sports Bar

20:30 MDT

Committee Fireside Chat Colorado AGuy Davidson • Andrei Alexandrescu • Bjarne Stroustrup • Braden Ganetsky • Gabriel Dos Reis • Jeff Garland • Nina Ranns • Ruslan Arutyunyan • Timur Doumler

07:00 MDT

Seven Research Women++ Networking Breakfast Colorado C

08:00 MDT

[Open Content] Tower Research Capital - Ask Me Anything (AMA) Red Rock 6/7Justin Zaglio • Vincent Marsicano

09:00 MDT

Can I memcpy This Type Across a Boundary? Verifying Object Representation at Compile Time With C++26 Reflection Red Rock 6/7Fanchen Su Interesting Upcoming Low-Latency, Networking, Concurrency, and Parallelism Features from Kona 2025, Croydon 2026, and Brno 2026 Colorado APaul E. McKenney • Maged Michael • Michael Wong The State of Boost: Boost Is Where You Become the Engineer You Want to Be Willow Lake 3/4/5Harold Bott Scaling Robotics to 200 Developers: Flexible C++ Architectures for Kinematics, Dynamics, Simulation & Control Homestead 3/4Carl Saldanha Death by a Thousand Tape Entries: Low-Overhead Automatic Differentiation for Scientific and Financial C++ Red Rock 8/9Jorg Lotze What's New for C++ in Visual Studio Code: C++ and AI Tooling for Your Build, Your Code, Your Workflow Colorado BSinem Akinci • Ben McMorran

10:30 MDT

Language Designers Panel Colorado AEmma Tracey • Bjarne Stroustrup • Guido van Rossum • Mads Torgersen

12:30 MDT

[Open Content] Meet the Recruiters (Bloomberg edition) Red Rock 8/9Brian Leone • Pri Trivedi [Open Content] The Death of Flow? How AI Changed Programming — and How to Get Joy Back Red Rock 6/7Sandor Dargo

13:00 MDT

Poster Presenter sessions Exhibit Hall

14:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Loops in C++ Homestead 3/4Nicolai Josuttis What Are We Synchronizing? Willow Lake 3/4/5Robert Leahy Inside a Small Game Engine: An Architecture Tour in Modern C++ Red Rock 6/7Elias Farhan Running Compiler Explorer in 2026: Sandboxes, Storage, and Strangers' Code Colorado AMatt Godbolt Using Modules in a Real Project Red Rock 8/9Erez Strauss C++ at Scale Colorado BRadoslav Zlatev

15:15 MDT

Good boss, bad boss: how to be a good manager, and how to manage a bad one. Willow Lake 3/4/5Greg Law Hacking and Securing C++ Red Rock 6/7Marcell Juhasz C++ in an AI World Colorado BJody Hagins Lock-Free Timer Scheduling With C++ Atomics Colorado AMaxim Gurschi Compile-Time Polymorphism for Runtime-Flexible Systems: Lessons from OpenJDK Homestead 3/4Shubhankar Gambhir C++ Core Guidelines Enforcement in Practice Red Rock 8/9Paul Jansen

16:15 MDT

Author Signing: Andreas Fertig Exhibit HallAndreas Fertig

16:45 MDT

Back to Basics: std::unordered_map Red Rock 6/7Kevin Carpenter Ensuring Code Quality in the Age of AI : More Code, Less Engineering! Colorado APeter Muldoon You’re absolutely wrong! How to get agents to solve complex problems with complex code. Colorado BGreg Law • Mark Williamson Practical HPC — Forcing the Compiler's Hand with Modern C++ Willow Lake 3/4/5Marco Barbone Using Type Erasure to Extend APIs You Don't Own: A Case Study From Audio Plugin Development Homestead 3/4Jan Wilczek From User to Contributor: Fixing Bugs and Adding Features in Clang Red Rock 8/9Matheus Izvekov

18:30 MDT

[Open Content] One C++26 App Three Ways: By Hand, By AI, and Together Red Rock 6/7Mike Spertus

20:30 MDT

C++: The Documentary Colorado A

09:00 MDT

Escaping the AST: A Data-Oriented, Lock-Free Parallel Compiler Architecture Willow Lake 3/4/5Aditya Kumar Awaiters and Awaitables Colorado AMateusz Pusz Breaking the Speed Limit: Building a High-Throughput Hashing Engine With C++26 Red Rock 8/9Yannic Staudt AI is UB with Better PR Colorado BMatt Kulukundis • Andy Soffer CUDA Tile C++: Practical Automatic Parallelization for the GPU Red Rock 6/7Ezra Stein

10:30 MDT

How C++26 changes the way we write code Colorado ATimur Doumler

12:00 MDT

QRT Community Lunch Colorado C

12:30 MDT

[Open Content] C++23: Ask Me Anything and Book Signing Red Rock 6/7Nicolai Josuttis

13:00 MDT

Official ISO C++ WG21 SG meeting of low latency/embedded/games/finance and Machine Learning Red Rock 1Michael Wong

13:15 MDT

Author Signing: Nicolai Josuttis Exhibit HallNicolai Josuttis

14:00 MDT

Embedded-Friendly C++: Modern Features That Make a Difference Red Rock 8/9Andreas Fertig Turbocharging Native Code Performance: Compiler Optimizations, Profile-guided Optimizations, and Beyond Willow Lake 3/4/5Eric Brumer Rule of 0,1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10? Colorado AJason Turner The Ghost in the Heap: Defeating a Memory Thief Red Rock 6/7Nicolas Arroyo Refactoring Techniques and Strategies (a Tale in Three Acts) Colorado BDave Steffen Automatic Splitting of Translation Units: Compiler-Agnostic Compiler Frontend Parallelization Homestead 3/4Damien Buhl

15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Memory Alignment Colorado BSarthak Sehgal C++ Views and Pipelines Willow Lake 3/4/5Nicolai Josuttis Our Journey Toward a Fully Backward-Compatible, UB-Safe, ISO C++ Red Rock 8/9John Lakos Readable Async Workflows in Modern C++: Coroutines Meet std::expected Homestead 3/4Futong Liu You Shall Not Pass*! Red Rock 6/7Daniel Pfeifer Queue Discipline: A Deep Dive into Lock-Free SPSC, MPSC, SPMC, and MPMC Queues in Modern C++ Colorado AAnmol Singhal

16:45 MDT

Graphics Programming with SDL 3 Part 2 Homestead 3/4Mike Shah Modern C++ Techniques to Reduce Boilerplate Without Sacrificing Performance Colorado AVISHNU G NATH Prioritizing Pretty-printers Red Rock 8/9Braden Ganetsky Processor Design and C++ Memory Models Colorado BOfek Shilon The Clocks of C++: Knowing When (and Why) to Use Each One Willow Lake 3/4/5Sandor Dargo My DAG Ate All My Cores: Identifying and Resolving Build Graph Bottlenecks Red Rock 6/7Florent Castelli

18:15 MDT

Boost.Documentary (Audience Preview Screening) Colorado A

21:00 MDT

Lightning Talks Colorado B

08:00 MDT

[Open Content] Shaping the C++29 Standard Library: The Beman Project and Beyond. Red Rock 6/7Jeff Garland

09:00 MDT

Tying up Loose Threads: Making Your Project No-GIL Ready Homestead 3/4Charlie Lin Back to Basics: Lambdas, Function Objects, and std::function Willow Lake 3/4/5Roth Michaels Beyond Monads: Pattern Matching Alternatives for Result Types Red Rock 6/7Vitaly Fanaskov Building C++20 Modules: The Rest of the Story Red Rock 8/9Vito Gamberini Composing the Future: Async Workflows with std::execution Colorado BAlistair Fisher • Ivy Zhang Writing Low-Latency C++: Predictability, Cache, and the Architectures Underneath Colorado ASampad Acharya

09:35 MDT

[[musttail]]-ling Our Way to a Faster Python Interpreter and New JIT Compiler Homestead 3/4Ken Jin Ooi

10:30 MDT

The Address is Not The Place: Object Residency in C++26 Colorado ALaurie Kirk

12:15 MDT

Author Signing: Jason Turner Exhibit HallJason Turner

12:30 MDT

[Open Content ] The Barrier Is a Myth: Becoming a Boost Maintainer Red Rock 6/7Arnaud Becheler

14:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Containers 1/2 Red Rock 6/7Alan Talbot MrDocs: Reliable Reference Documentation for C++ Using the Clang AST Willow Lake 3/4/5Alan de Freitas Type Punning: the joke is on you, pun intended. Fixing UB of reinterpret_cast! Red Rock 8/9Lieven de Cock What Is Your Algorithmic Core? Homestead 3/4Egor Suvorov When Zero-Cost Abstractions Aren’t Zero-Cost Colorado ASteve Sorkin Generating Language Bindings using C++ Reflection Colorado BCallum Piper

15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Containers 2/2 Red Rock 6/7Alan Talbot Leveraging LLM to Generate Unittests for Notifiers in Taskflow Homestead 3/4Snikitha Siddavatam The Biggest Misconception of Computer Science Willow Lake 3/4/5Alex Dathskovsky The C++ safety issues your tools can't see Red Rock 8/9Ion Todirel Ranges Without Compromises: Designing for Simplicity, Performance, and Composability Colorado BOleksandr Bacherikov Modernizing Legacy Codebases without Stopping the World Colorado APeter Muldoon

16:45 MDT

Extending Google Test for Statistical Benchmarking, CUDA Profiling, and CI Performance Regression Homestead 3/4Kevin Gomez Back to Basics: Computer Systems Red Rock 8/9Mike Shah Meet Guy Davidson Colorado BGuy Davidson • Sherry Sontag A Duck Does More Than Quack: Synthesizing VTables with C++26 Reflection Red Rock 6/7Ryan Keane Who Is #include-ing You? Measuring the Impact of C++ Libraries Willow Lake 3/4/5John Parent Writing High Performance Parsers Using State Machines Colorado ATorben Thaysen

17:20 MDT

API Design is Language Design: Lessons from Go's net/http library for C++ Homestead 3/4Tim van Deurzen

18:30 MDT

Meet the Presenters Banquet (Susquehanna) Colorado C/D

20:30 MDT

Lightning Talks Colorado B

09:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Text Formatting Homestead 3/4Ben Saks “If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It”: From Profiling to Automatic Benchmarking Colorado AKris Jusiak CMake: Making Hard Things Easy Red Rock 6/7Bill Hoffman Safety in Numbers Red Rock 8/9Jason Turner Code Like a Library Author: How to Write Better C++ Application Code Willow Lake 3/4/5Jon Kalb

10:30 MDT

Memory Safety on a Microcontroller: What Embedded C++ Teams Can Actually Do Today Homestead 3/4Darijo Topic What can C++26 reflection do for you?: A practical experiment in using reflection with an emphasis on binary protocol support Colorado AAndy Webber Senders, Receivers, and Robots: Structured Concurrency for Autonomous Navigation Red Rock 6/7Nahuel Espinosa IEEE 754 Decimals for C++: The Boost.Decimal Library Red Rock 8/9Matt Borland Incremental Modernization: Refactoring Legacy OOP Application Code using Type Erasure and Functional C++ Willow Lake 3/4/5Jessica Ding Mock Any Function in C++ Without Changing a Single Line of Code Colorado BIlya Ermakov • Brian Rudo-Hutt • Ruifeng Zhang

12:00 MDT

[Open Content] std::bitcoin Red Rock 8/9Daniel Pfeifer [Open Content] Refactoring C++ : Techniques, Smells, and Discussion Red Rock 6/7Dave Steffen

13:30 MDT

Back to Basics: Function Overloading Red Rock 8/9chris ryan Code You Didn't Write: Understanding Large and Unfamiliar Codebases Colorado BChris Croft-White • Mike Shah Thinking Low Level, Writing High Level Colorado AIgnas Bagdonas The Real Story of C++26: Beyond the Headline Features Red Rock 6/7Sandor Dargo When Air Gaps Learn: AI, Data, and the New C++ Attack Surface Homestead 3/4Matthew Butler Implementing Async RAII Willow Lake 3/4/5Robert Leahy

14:45 MDT

Back to Basics: C++20 Concepts Willow Lake 3/4/5Amir Kirsh The Value of Idiomatic Code Red Rock 6/7John Pavan Escaping 1996: Meta-Modern C++ Techniques for Embedded Systems Homestead 3/4Michael Caisse In Pursuit of a 6,000 FPS Game Boy Emulator Red Rock 8/9Tom Tesch What 25 Days of Optimisations Taught Me About Compilers Colorado AMatt Godbolt Concurrency for Modern CPUs - Lock-Free or Lock-based? Colorado BFedor Pikus

16:15 MDT

Your Next 20 Days of Systems Engineering Colorado AAndrei Alexandrescu

09:00 MDT

AI++ 201: Building High Quality C++ Infrastructure with AI Red Rock 5Jody Hagins Function and Class Design with C++2x Red Rock 6Jeff Garland High-performance Concurrency in C++ Red Rock 7Fedor Pikus

09:00 MDT

AI++ 201: Building High Quality C++ Infrastructure with AI Red Rock 5Jody Hagins Function and Class Design with C++2x Red Rock 6Jeff Garland High-performance Concurrency in C++ Red Rock 7Fedor Pikus

09:00 MDT

C++ Fundamentals You Wish You Had Known EarlierMateusz Pusz C++23 in Practice: A Complete IntroductionNicolai Josuttis

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C++ Fundamentals You Wish You Had Known EarlierMateusz Pusz C++23 in Practice: A Complete IntroductionNicolai Josuttis

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C++ Fundamentals You Wish You Had Known EarlierMateusz Pusz C++23 in Practice: A Complete IntroductionNicolai Josuttis

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Using C++ for Low-Latency SystemsPatrice Roy

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Using C++ for Low-Latency SystemsPatrice Roy

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