The above photo is from CppCon 2026 by CppCon’s photographer, Jonathan Phillips. Not only do I want to share this brilliant photo, I also want to announce CppCon 2027 dates, September 18-24, 2027, save the dates now!

CppCon 2026 just wrapped up and was an amazing conference. For an early preview of what happened, see Bjarne’s keynote, the Language Designer Panel keynote, Timur’s keynote, Laurie’s keynote, and Andrei’s keynote.

Videos of all our other Main Program and lightning talk sessions will start to be published on our YouTube channel, one every business day, starting in November. If you create a (free) account on our Video Archive Portal, you’ll be able to see the videos as soon as they are edited and uploaded.

Trip Reports

I’ll update this post as trip reports are published. If you see a CppCon 2026 trip report published or you’d like your trip report to be included, please send us a note. You can see some short reports on LinkedIn and on X.

• Ryan Keane on LinkedIn
• Matt Goldbolt on LinkedIn
• Vishnu Gopinath on LinkedIn
• Adit Shah on LinkedIn
• James Lim on LinkedIn
• Roman Bansal on LinkedIn
• Sándor Dargó on his blog

Thanks

A conference the size of CppCon doesn’t just happen. There are a lot of heroes that work hard to make this happen. You’ll find many of their names on our staff page which lists the organizers, program committee, volunteers, and vendors.

You’d find more names (and faces) on the presenters page for this year’s conference which lists presenters from the Main Program, panels, Poster Program, Open Content sessions, and lightning talks.

As much as all of these people work hard so that we are providing the best that we can in technical content, food, production values, live music, comfortable ambiance, and supportive environment, none of those is the most important part of CppCon.

Returning attendees know that the most important part of CppCon is the opportunity to engage with the attendees (including the presenters), who are tackling some of our most challenging problems, with creative and innovative techniques, using powerful tools provided by C++ and the C++ community.

Above, you’ll see the faces of the most important part of CppCon, the attendees. (I’ve not matched faces to the registration list to verify that no one is missing, but I think most of us are in the photo.)

This year, more than any other, you are all my heroes.

I look forward to seeing you all next year.

Jon Kalb
Conference Chair

We’ve previously announced keynotes for a very special Language Panel with Bjarne Stroustrup, Guido van Rossum and Mads Torgersen, Bjarne Stroustrup on “Profiles for simplicity and guarantees”, Laurie Kirk on “The Address is Not The Place: Object Residency in C++26”, and Timur Doumler on “How C++26 changes the way we write code.”

We’re pleased to announce our final keynote of CppCon 2026! Herb Sutter is a technical fellow at Citadel Securities, designer of several Standard C++ features, chair emeritus of the ISO C++ committee, and chair of the Standard C++ Foundation.

From Herb’s talk description:

C++: Growing in a world of efficiency, safety, and AI

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 developments in ISO C++ itself, where the committee completed technical work on C++26 in March 2026, and then in June voted the first additions into the working draft for C++29:

• Key C++26 language improvements like reflection and the initial round of memory safety hardening, and standard library performance enhancers like std::simd and std::execution.
• A new Annex in the C++29 working draft cataloging every case of core language undefined behavior, the first step toward addressing it systematically rather than one paper at a time.
• Draft “profiles” for stronger portable memory safety guarantees, now being prototyped and targeted at C++29.

Second, we consider how quickly both hardware and software are moving in the industry around us. This year, capital is pouring into silicon and power at a jaw-dropping rate, and agentic systems are arriving with new capabilities and new failure modes. We’ll see how both affect C++ programming in the trenches:

• Why performance efficiency has been enduringly important, from the 1940s through to today and with no end in sight.
• How current industry data (SlashData, IDC) documents sustained growth in demand for professional programmers, especially who know languages that can operate under real space and time constraints.
• What AI does and doesn’t change about any of it: a pragmatic view both of where AI has shown real benefit in our programming world, and of what it’s not good at (yet, or ever).

Throughout, we might hear a little grumbling from the speaker about how he has always written his own talk titles and abstracts and prose using em-dashes, but now can’t use em-dashes anymore because of, well, you know.

Registration is open so don’t miss out on CppCon 2026 this September 12-18. Register today!

We’ve previously announced keynotes for a very special Language Panel with Bjarne Stroustrup, Guido van Rossum and Mads Torgersen, Bjarne Stroustrup on “Profiles for simplicity and guarantees”, and Laurie Kirk on “The Address is Not The Place: Object Residency in C++26”.

We’re pleased to announce our next keynote for CppCon 2026! Timur Doumler has been coming to and presenting at CppCon for over a decade. He works at Citadel Securities and is an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee. Timur is also a former Program Chair for CppCon!

From Timur’s talk description:

How C++26 changes the way we write code

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. Contract assertions introduce scalable and configurable correctness checks for identifying program defects and making C++ code safer. The new sender/receiver execution library provides a powerful generic framework that redefines asynchronous programming in C++. Finally, reflection‚ the most eagerly anticipated feature of C++26‚ profoundly reshapes how we reason about C++ and what we can accomplish with it.

This talk is the third installment in a popular series exploring how each new C++ Standard changes the way we write code‚ from everyday idioms to advanced patterns‚ with a practical focus on what matters most to real-world developers. This is not a firehose talk that tries to cram as many additions to the latest Standard as possible into one hour. Instead, we focus deliberately on just a handful of particularly impactful features and highlight the essential ideas every C++ developer needs to understand.

Registration is open so don’t miss out on CppCon 2026 this September 12-18. Register today!

 

 

We are thrilled to announce that CppCon 2026 will host an exclusive audience preview screening of Boost.Documentary on September 16th.

This new film offers an intimate look at the group of volunteers who, starting in 1998, built the legendary libraries that power everything from rovers on Mars to particle accelerators at CERN. Join us at the conference to see the inside story of the friendships, battles, and victories behind the code that helps run our world.

Get a sneak peek of the film:

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 audience preview screening and ensure your thoughts are reflected in the general release cut!

You can watch the official trailer for Boost.Documentary below

Join us in Aurora:

Don’t miss your chance to experience this special audience preview screening in person, along with over 100 breakout sessions, workshops, and networking with the global C++ community. CppCon 2026 registration is open now.

👉 Register for CppCon 2026

We look forward to seeing you there!