CppCon 2024 Attendance Support Ticket program

Posted on 2024-05-142024-05-10 by cppcon

Again this year, CppCon is running an Attendance Support Ticket program. These free tickets are for people who would not be able to attend otherwise. This program is limited to conference tickets and doesn’t include support for transportation or lodging. This is an open program, but reasons to apply may include financial assistance, that you are part of an underrepresented group in tech, and others.

In order to apply for this program, please fill in the application form here. The application deadline is June 27, 2024. Decisions will be sent by July 1.

We look forward to seeing many of you again this year at CppCon 2024!

CppCon 2024 Registration is Open

Posted on 2024-04-182024-04-17 by Jon Kalb

Registration is now open for CppCon 2024, an all-in-person conference being held at the Gaylord Rockies in Aurora, Colorado. A separate registration for CppCon Academy 2024 is also open. (We’ll have some online classes, but conference sessions will be onsite-only, recorded, and posted to the CppCon YouTube channel.)

Maximize your conference experience with the comfort and convenience of staying onsite at the official CppCon hotel.

With your stay at the Gaylord Rockies, receive up to five days of lunch vouchers (one for each night of your stay, up to $30 per lunch) and free high-speed WiFi throughout the conference site. The same high-speed WiFi available in your room is also available throughout the entire conference space.

These benefits are exclusively for attendees staying at the Gaylord Rockies.

Just register for the conference and book a room in your name at the Gaylord Rockies. See the registration page for details.

Registration details are available on our registration page, but the high points are:

Substantial savings are available for Early Bird registrations through June 21st.
The conference is onsite, but CppCon Academy will offer both onsite and online classes.
We are also offering an Economy registration that doesn’t include the “Meet the Presenters” Banquet, annual tee shirt, CppCache credit, or souvenir that are included in Regular registration.
We have a reduced price option available for full-time students.

Visa application support for non-US attendees is available.

As always, we offer support for academics and employees of non-profits and, thanks to the support of the C++ Alliance, child care.

CppCon 2024 – Call for Authors

Posted on 2024-03-262024-03-16 by cppcon

Book SIgning CppCon represents an unparalleled opportunity for C++ authors to engage with potential reviewers and readers.

For authors that are able to attend in person, the conference will schedule signing opportunities and panels with other authors. Authors can submit session proposals for the Main Program and/or Open Content sessions.

Book Signing Even for authors that cannot attend in person, the conference is an opportunity for exposure by working with authors to have their hard copy books available for sale at the conference and/or having special attendee discounts for ebook editions.

To register your interest in learning more about author opportunities at CppCon, please fill out the CppCon 2024 Call for Authors form.

Early Video Access Price Reduction and Bundle Offer!

Posted on 2024-01-302024-01-31 by cppcon

CppCon’s Early Video Access promotion has allowed early subscribers to access all CppCon 2023 videos for almost three months.

We publish one new video every business day (and will continue to do so until this spring when all of our CppCon 2023 content is published), so many of the CppCon 2023 videos are now also freely available on our YouTube channel. Since there are fewer unpublished videos we are reducing the Early Video Access price by 50%!

Not only are we reducing the price to $74, we are also partnering with Rainer Grimm in supporting his fundraising for ALS. Rainer Grimm is a long time CppCon attendee, instructor, and speaker who is fundraising for ALS.

We are including his popular Modern C++ Collection bundle, a $70 value (which Rainer is offering to the conference for $35 for ALS fundraising), in all Early Video Access subscriptions!

This offer is retroactive, so if you’ve already purchased the Early Video Access, we will be reaching out to send you your copy of the Modern C++ Collection bundle.

TL;DR: For $74 you are getting:

$75 worth of high-quality C++ ebooks
Early access to unpublished CppCon 2023 videos
An opportunity to support ALS research

GET ACCESS HERE!

CppCon 2023 Video Announcements

Posted on 2023-11-24 by cppcon

Publishing CppCon 2023 Videos

Starting today, with Bjarne Stroustrup’s Opening Keynote, we will begin publishing CppCon 2023 videos.

(Almost*) all of the CppCon 2023 videos are edited and uploaded to the CppCon YouTube channel. Starting with full length videos and continuing with lightning talks, we’ll publish one video per business day until sometime in May, when they will all be freely available to the public.

Do you want to see the CppCon 2023 Main Program videos now?

If you are eager to have access to all of the content as soon as possible, even the videos that we’ve not yet published to our YouTube Channel, we are making that possible with our Early Video Access option.

This option allows you to view all of the 2023 videos before they are published to YouTube. Since (almost*) all the video are edited and uploaded, this is your chance to see (almost*) all of the CppCon 2023 video content right now.

* Lightning Talks and two or three full length sessions are still getting some last-minute updates.

New Video Archive Portal

The Early Video Access option leverages our new Video Archive portal.

We are introducing this new portal as an alternative way to view our YouTube Channel content with better searching options. The portal currently has content since CppCon 2020, but will be built out further with content from 2023 and previous years. In addition to finding CppCon 2023 content here as soon as it is published to our YouTube Channel, all of the CppCon 2023 plenary videos are available now.

A link to the CppCon Video Archive portal is in the “program” menu. Try it out now!

We believe that over time viewers will find this a better way to find and view C++ videos and we’ll continue to add content and features.

CppCon 2023 Wrap-up and CppCon 2024 Dates!

Posted on 2023-10-132023-12-18 by Jon Kalb

The above photo is from CppCon 2023 by CppCon’s photographer, Jonathan Phillips. Not only do I want to share this brilliant photo, I also want to announce CppCon 2024 dates, September 15 – 20 2024, save the dates now!

CppCon 2023 just wrapped up and was an amazing conference. For an early preview of what happened, see Bjarne’s keynote, Bret and Bill’s keynote, Laura’s keynote, Herb’s keynote, and Andrei’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 CppCon 2023 videos as soon as they are available, then have we got something in store for you! Check out our new Early Video Access option.

Trip Reports

I’ll update this post as more trip reports are published. If you’d like your trip report to be included, please send it.

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, 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.

Over 700 People Passionate About C++ and Excited to be at CppCon

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

2023 Keynote on Generative AI for C++: Andrei Alexandrescu, prerelease

Posted on 2023-10-122023-10-10 by cppcon

Andrei Alexandrescu on Generative AI for C++ at his CppCon 2023 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 😉