Every year CppCon offers Open Content sessions early in the morning before the start of the main schedule, during lunch and in the evening.

Open Content sessions offer a great opportunity for,

• Extended post-talk Q&A or deep-dive sessions
• Hackathons, demonstrations or exercises
• 3-5 person panel taking audience questions
• Presentation or discussion on any topic (related to C++)

A projector is available for slides or public note taking.

Open Content can be proposed from now until the end of the conference as long as there are slots available. To submit a proposal visit our Open Content submission page.

Anyone can submit or attend Open Content sessions, no conference registration needed. This is part of our goal to be an inclusive conference for the entire C++ community.

Free Friday

All CppCon 2025 events on Friday, September 19th, do not require conference registration. That’s right, just like all our evening sessions (except ones involving food–the dinners and reception), all Friday sessions are open to the public without a conference registration. This includes talks by some of our most popular speakers.