CppCon 2025 Call for Submissions – Back to Basics Track

Posted on 2025-04-172025-04-14 by cppcon

To become an expert at any skill, one must first master the fundamentals. The Back to Basics (B2B) Track is calling for talks that showcase the foundational programming topics that every C++ programmer should know. CppCon has a history dating several years of Back to Basics topics that both beginners and experts can benefit from for learning and mastering C++ foundations. The visibility for these talks is high both onsite and on the CppCon YouTube channel — so we’d like you to consider submitting to this track and being part of this track’s rich history! So if you’re a beginner and have a fresh eye for learning a new topic, or an expert with years of wisdom to share, we want you to submit!

Submissions to this track focus on teaching and explaining the technical aspects of the C++ programming language from first principles. The talks in this track are technical, but each topic is taught from the first building blocks so the audience can follow along (and the attention to detail of a B2B talk may even benefit the experts!).

Past Topics for submission have included:

Debugging
Casting
Concurrency
Pointers
Arrays
Templates
Smart Pointers
Object-Oriented Programming
And we also encourage repeats — because we want your unique way of teaching!

Trainers, teachers, engineers, or those with deep expertise of foundational topics (yes that’s you!) are wanted to help train the next C++ talent in the Back to Basics (B2B) Track!

Details on the submission process can be found on the Main Program Submissions page.

Mike Shah, Ph.D. and Klaus Iglberger

Back to Basics Track co-chairs

CppCon 2025 Call for Submissions – Software Design Track

Posted on 2025-04-152025-04-14 by cppcon

Building software is much more than just writing lines of code. Amongst other, it also entails the management of interactions, the reduction of coupling and dependencies between software entities and the creation of good and meaningful abstractions. These are the aspects focused on in the CppCon Software Design Track.

Since software design can play a much more central role for the success of a project than the low-level implementations could ever do, CppCon also desires to cover this aspect of software engineering. Therefore you are strongly encouraged to submit talks for the Software Design Track.

Topics may include:

Design for change, scalability, extension, and testability.
Design and architectural patterns.
Design techniques for all paradigms (OOP, FP, Generic, …).
Both static and dynamic polymorphism.
Good and bad experiences from real world projects (that is, war stories).
Advice on how to manage big projects via proper software organization.

Klaus Iglberger and Mike Shah, Ph.D.
Software Design Track co-chairs

CppCon 2025 – Call for Submissions

Posted on 2025-04-022025-04-01 by Timur Doumler

CppCon is the annual, week-long (September 13^th-19^th, 2025) face-to-face gathering for the entire C++ community. The conference Main Program consists of five days of several concurrent tracks of sixty-minute sessions.

This conference is organized by the C++ Community for the C++ Community. We want the whole community to be represented. We especially encourage those who identify as coming from an underrepresented community to apply to present and to be present. Presenting a talk is not limited to previous presenters or previous attendees and first-time speakers are very welcome to submit.

This year’s edition of CppCon will be onsite at the Gaylord Rockies in Aurora, Colorado, USA.

Have you learned something interesting about C++, maybe a new technique possible in C++20/23/26? Or perhaps you have implemented something cool, maybe a new C++ library? Or perhaps have an idea for a future language or library feature that you want to advocate for? If so, consider sharing it with other C++ enthusiasts by giving a Main Program talk at CppCon 2025.

While CppCon is a conference about C++, talks about other programming languages are in scope for CppCon 2025 as long as they are of interest to C++ developers and tied to C++ evolution and are not primarily talks about rewriting entire C++ codebases in something other than C++. For example, a talk on How to migrate your C++ code to Haskell is off-topic and will not be considered, but a talk on What C++ Programmers Can Learn from Swift, or What Rust Procedural Macros Might Look Like in C++, or Results of Hylo/Carbon/Circle Experiments That Could Be Incorporated Into ISO C++ Evolution are on-topic and will be considered.

The submission deadline is May 11th, with decisions sent by June 22nd.

To facilitate a double-blind review process, please avoid statements in your title, abstract, and outline that remove all uncertainty about who you are. See examples on the Submissions page.

We plan to have all of the same tracks as last year (Back to Basics, Software Design, Tooling, Embedded, Robotics & AI, Scientific Computing, and GameDev). In addition, we are introducing a new Business & Career track this year. If you plan to submit to one or more of these tracks, please indicate in your submission which track(s) you’d expect your talk to fit into by ticking the appropriate checkbox. Of course, you are also welcome to submit a talk to the main program that does not fit into any of these tracks. If you have new ideas for tracks or special interest areas to better serve the C++ community, please get in touch with the program committee directly with your thoughts.

For talk topic ideas, possible formats, submission instructions and valuable advice on how to make the best possible submission, see the Submissions page.

Also, if you are an author, our Call for Authors for CppCon 2025 has already been posted here. This is a great opportunity to bring more attention to your book and interact with the C++ community.

Note: Calls for Lightning Talks and Open Content sessions will be made later this summer. The deadline for these is the conference itself.

CppCon 2024 Wrap-up and CppCon 2025 Dates!

Posted on 2024-09-302024-11-22 by Jon Kalb

The above photo is from CppCon 2024 by CppCon’s photographer, Jonathan Phillips. Not only do I want to share this brilliant photo, I also want to announce CppCon 2025 dates, September 13 – 19 2025, save the dates now!

CppCon 2024 just wrapped up and was an amazing conference. For an early preview of what happened, see Herb’s keynote, Khalil’s keynote, Amanda’s keynote, David’s keynote, and Daveed’s keynote.

Videos of all our other Main Program sessions will start to be published on our YouTube channel, one a business day, starting in November. If you want access to this year’s CppCon videos as soon as they are available, then have we got something in store for you! Check out our Early Video Access option.

Trip Reports

I’ll update this post as trip reports are published. If you see a CppCon 2024 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 Twitter.

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

2024 Keynote on Gazing Beyond Reflection for C++26: Daveed Vandevoorde, prerelease

Posted on 2024-09-24 by cppcon

Daveed Vandevoorde on “Gazing Beyond Reflection for C++26” at their CppCon 2024 keynote in Aurora, Colorado!

This video is in “prerelease” and cannot be found directly on our YouTube channel, instead we are providing a direct link here only! Feel free to share this with colleagues and friends and impress them with your insider access 😉

Also, remember to bookmark our Video Archive Portal (VAP) and check back each day for each new keynote as it becomes available – the VAP portal will provide exclusive access to all CppCon 2024 Keynotes/Plenaries, in addition to providing Early Access to the rest of the 2024 video releases (separate registration required).

2024 Keynote on Embracing an Adversarial Mindset for C++ Security: Amanda Rousseau, prerelease

Posted on 2024-09-202024-09-22 by cppcon

Amanda Rousseau on “Embracing an Adversarial Mindset for C++ Security” at their CppCon 2024 keynote in Aurora, Colorado!

This video is in “prerelease” and cannot be found directly on our YouTube channel, instead we are providing a direct link here only! Feel free to share this with colleagues and friends and impress them with your insider access 😉

2024 Keynote on C++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware: Khalil Estell, prerelease

Posted on 2024-09-182024-09-22 by cppcon

Khalil Estell on “C++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware” at their CppCon 2024 keynote in Aurora, Colorado!

Opening 2024 Keynote: Herb Sutter, prerelease

Posted on 2024-09-172024-09-18 by cppcon

CppCon 2024 is in midweek and so much has happened thus far in Aurora, Colorado!

Along with great talks from C++ experts, we’ve had social events and panels, including our annual Committee Fireside Chat where attendees had the opportunity to hear directly from C++ standard committee members.

This year, CppCon’s opening keynote was Herb Sutter. Herb’s focus was on C++’s next Decade.

Plan to attend this year’s Diversity Dinner ⇒ Community Dinner!

Posted on 2024-08-262024-08-26 by cppcon

Join us, and share your thoughts about CppCon, C++, our field, and our world at our Community Dinner, our renamed and reimagined version of our traditional “Diversity Dinner.”

Together, we are an increasingly eclectic group and aspire to be even more so. We know we can benefit from all of your widely diverse perspectives on the world. Dinner will combine great food with what we see as an inside-out panel — guests are the panelists, and conference leaders get to listen to you.

To welcome as many of you around the table as possible, we are providing some deeply subsidized tickets. Here is how that will work…

If your company will buy your ticket: Please buy a full-priced ticket here. These tickets are provided at-cost and the conference makes no profit.

Volunteers: You are working hard to make the conference happen and that means a free ticket to this dinner if you want to attend. See the Volunteer Coordinator to reserve a spot.

For anyone with a limited budget and unlimited enthusiasm for our evolving community, use one of the following links (and then click the “Reserve a spot” button), to buy a ticket. Just pick whichever you can afford:

This stipend will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis for as long as the funds hold out. For those whose companies will pay for their regular “Community Dinner” tickets, those tickets are still available at the conference registration link.

We welcome all of you to CppCon!

2024 Keynote, Daveed Vandevoorde: “Gazing Beyond Reflection for C++26”

Posted on 2024-08-262024-08-23 by cppcon

We’ve previously announced keynotes by Herb Sutter on what lies ahead for C++, Khalil Estell on Exceptions in Firmware, David Gross on going “ultrafast”, and by Amanda Rousseau on changing our C++ Security mindset.

We’re now pleased to announce the our final conference keynote: Daveed Vandevoorde will be talking about Reflection, a topic that Herb Sutter mentioned in his keynote announcement. Reflection has the opportunity to transform C++ in a profound way and Daveed’s talk is going to shed light on why that opinion is shared by so many.

From Daveed’s talk description:

Gazing Beyond Reflection for C++26

In less than a year since its original publication, the WG21 proposal “Reflection for C++26” (P2996) has made good progress towards its titular goal. From its inception, we intended that design to offer a modest-but-useful set of features with a solid foundation on top of which we will be able to incrementally grow an easy-to-use, rich, and extensible C++ meta-programming framework. This keynote will review some of the fundamental tools proposed in P2996 and follow up with a vision for some additional capabilities that we’re working on.

Registration is open so don’t miss out on CppCon 2024 this September 15-20. Register today!