The Main Program schedule for CppCon 2025 is now live!

We’ll have over one hundred breakout sessions delivered onsite by the best C++ presenters in the industry, many returning from previous years as well as some exciting new voices. We will be announcing our five headline talks here in the coming days.

This year’s Main Program features a broad and deep general program. Within the program are eight dedicated topic tracks: The Back to Basics Track (sessions), the Embedded Track (sessions), the GameDev Track (sessions), the Robotics Track (sessions), the Scientific Computing Track (sessions), the Software Design Track (sessions), and Tooling Track (sessions) are back, and we have a new Business and Career Track (sessions)! These “tracks” are to help find talks in specific areas, but as always, there are lots of talks not assigned to a specific track covering a wide variety of important topics.

In addition to the Main Program, we’ll have our annual Committee Fireside Chat, our poster competition, multiple sessions of lightning talks, Open Content talks, BOFs, exhibitors, social events, pre/post-conference classes, and most importantly of all, the informal “hallway track,” providing the opportunity to engage with professionals from across our industry.

Most of the program is published, but we are still working on a few surprises, so keep checking back to see any new additions or time slot adjustments.

We’d like to thank the Program Committee, our speakers, and the many professionals who proposed talks which we, unfortunately, just couldn’t squeeze in this year. Thank you for your hard work and enthusiastic support for this year’s program!

We hope to see you all in just over a month—so register now.

We’re pleased to announce our next keynote for CppCon 2025! Matt Godbolt is a long time CppCon attendee and creator of Compiler Explorer. Godbolt, in addition to being a verb, is an excellent speaker and we are honored to have him as a returning keynote presenter.

From Matt’s talk description:

C++: Some Assembly Required

Join Matt in exploring how the C++ ecosystem has evolved through the interplay of intentional design and emergent collaboration. Standards committees craft language features and compiler teams implement them, but something amazing happens in the spaces between: tools appear, communities form, and solutions emerge that nobody quite planned for. What started as individual developers solving their own problems has grown into an interconnected ecosystem that shapes how we all write C++.

From documentation to testing, from build systems to package managers, we’ll examine how the C++ community has assembled itself around shared pain points and accidental standards. Using examples and perhaps too many rainforest metaphors, this talk celebrates not just the language we’ve built, but the organic ecosystem that’s grown up around it. Come discover why C++’s greatest strength might be that it’s always required some assembly.

Registration is open so don’t miss out on CppCon 2025 this September 14-19. Register today!

CppCon 2025 will kick off on Monday, September 15 with Bjarne Stroustrup back delivering the opening keynote in Aurora.

Bjarne’s opening keynotes for CppCon are one of the most anticipated and most watched talks in C++. His talks are always among the most viewed presentations on the CppCon YouTube Channel.

 

From his talk description:

Concept-based Generic Programming

This talk presents programming techniques to illustrate the facilities and principles of C++ generic programming using concepts. Concepts are C++’s way to express constraints on generic code. As an initial example, it provides a simple type system that eliminate narrowing conversions and provides range checking.

Concepts are used throughout to provide user-defined extensions to the type system. The aim is to show their utility and the fundamental ideas behind them, rather than to provide a detailed or complete explanation of C++’s language support for generic programming or the extensive support provided by the standard library.

The final sections briefly present design rationales and origins for key parts of the concept design, including use patterns, the relationship to Object-Oriented Programming, value arguments, syntax, concept type-matching, and definition checking. They also mention static reflection, a C++26 improvements in the support of general programming.

Be at CppCon again this year as Bjarne Stroustrup flies us above this complex landscape of issues and shines a spotlight on the most important things to know, and to think about, in C++ in 2025. Come to the talk, bring your questions, and don’t miss out!

Registration is now open so don’t miss out on CppCon 2025 this September 14-19. Register today!

 

 

 

 

The CppCon 2025 field trip will be to the Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum near the conference in Aurora, CO.

Join us Sunday, September 14th to experience aerospace history – the museum has a large collection of airplanes, rockets, engines, and even a replica Apollo guidance computer on site. We will have lunch catered by Curtis Park Delicatessen, a delicious lunch spot local to Denver and Boulder.

 

If you are arriving for CppCon 2025 by September 14, Sunday morning, this is your opportunity to get to know some of your fellow attendees while learning about aerospace history.

See the CppCon 2025 Field Trip page for details.

Register here!

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This year’s field trip is sponsored by the North Denver Metro C++ Meetup.

 

 

 

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.

• Sakshi Verma – CppCon 2024 Trip Report
• Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2024: Trip Report
• Dvir Yitzchaki – CppCon 2024 trip report
• Emily Durie-Johnson – CppCon 2024

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