The call for submissions for the Embedded Track at CppCon 2024 is now open! Check out the submissions page so you don’t miss your chance to share your team’s latest successes and discoveries in embedded software development!

CppCon’s Embedded Track is a meeting place where programmers specializing in embedded systems can come together with the larger C++ community to learn from each other.

Embedded systems is an increasingly broad area of computing, covering handheld devices, safety-critical systems like autonomous cars, and highly-specialized systems like satellites, not to mention the hardware devices used to build other computing systems. Possible topics include (but certainly aren’t limited to):

• Working with real-time operating systems
• Device drivers
• Hardware simulation
• Safety-critical systems
• Techniques for improving execution time
• Techniques for minimizing overhead
• Unique security concerns (e.g., securing mobile devices)
• C/C++ libraries focused on resource-constrained systems
• Case studies and post-mortems on embedded systems

Submission deadline is May 19, 2024. Please remember to note that your submission is targeting the Embedded Track in the Comments section of the submission form.

Ben Saks

Embedded Track chair

The Robotics Track at CppCon brings together practitioners of the multidisciplinary field to share their knowledge and experience with using C++ to build robots.

By attending this track, you’ll have an opportunity to join a community of like-minded individuals from robotics, controls, autonomous driving, AI, and Machine Learning who use C++ to drive developments in their fields.

We invite submissions that showcase the use of C++ in a robotics context. Examples from last year include:

• compile-time techniques for implementing kinematic chains
• improving path planning performance through data structure optimization
• exploring the implementation of a popular behavior tree library used in robotics

More examples can be seen from this playlist of last year’s track

This track is unlike academic conferences which typically require submission of an open source package or published work and is oriented towards practitioners sharing useful techniques, best practices, or interesting explorations of the language that powers everyday robots. Join us!

Remember to indicate your interest in the Robotics Track in the Comments Section of the submission form. The submission process can be found here.

Griswald Brooks and Tyler Weaver

Robotics Track co-chairs

This year, CppCon is launching a new track dedicated to GameDev. I am delighted to be chairing and I would be even more delighted to hear from anyone with stories to tell of their time in GameDev and the tricks and techniques they came across.

GameDev is an unusual domain: like finance, low latency and performance are key features, although unlike finance, the costs of engineering failures are not life-changing (in general).

I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. Memory leaking at 15Kb a second during a retail build, the engineers relying on users being quick enough to finish a level. Unencrypted text in binaries. Engineers fighting in a car park over a 2Kb buffer, released from the memory budget through the cutting of a feature. Maybe you have seen some things we would like to know about, and maybe you’ve learned some things that we really should know about.

I want to see your C++ based proposals on:

• Patterns in game development
• Building engines
• Build systems
• Profiling and optimizing
• Accommodating hardware constraints
• Interacting with the C++ Standard
• Debugging interactive programs
• GPU programming
• Case studies and post mortems
  …
• Oh yes, and AI

In fact, anything relevant to our domain. We have a history of secrecy and silence: now is the time to come blinking into the light. Advocate for change! Make your voice heard in the wider community!

Please contact the GameDev Track Chair, Guy Davidson, if you have any questions or suggestions.

Building software entails more than writing lines of code. Software development entails: managing dependencies in code, reducing coupling, creating the appropriate abstractions in respective domains, and meeting soft and hard requirements. These are several of the many aspects focused on in the CppCon Software Design Track—and we want to hear from you!

This year CppCon again is providing a dedicated track covering the many aspects of software design and development. You are strongly encouraged to submit talks for the Software Design Track and share your wisdom and experience.

Topics may include:

• Design for change, scalability, extension, and testability.
• Design techniques for all paradigms.
• Both static and dynamic polymorphism.
• Design and architectural patterns.
• Both Good and bad experiences from real world projects (that is, ‘software stories’ and ‘case studies’).
• Advice on how to manage big projects via proper software organization.
• Managing time and technical talent.

Mike Shah and Klaus Iglberger
Software Design Track co-chairs