Thanks for your interest in presenting at CppCon. In addition to the Main Program, we have two other ways to present: Lightning Talks and Open Content Sessions. These opportunities are open to anyone in the C++ community, even if you have are not registered at the conference. (You can also present a poster or be a Tool Time presenters.)

Lightning Talks

Lightning talks are your five minutes of stardom. The format encourages a focused and often high-energy presentation about nearly anything (subject to approval by the conference) that might be interesting to the C++ community, including proprietary technologies. They can be of a lighter or humorous nature, but they need not be. Some titles from past years include:

– Why not Conan (part II)
– Regular Expressions Redefined in C++
– Constructor Template Argument Deduction Best Practices
– C++ Koans
– (don’t) Copy Paste All The Things

You can see some past CppCon lightning talks on our YouTube channel.

Although Lightning Talk sessions appear in the conference program, individual talks are not listed. But each talk is professionally recorded, edited, and uploaded to YouTube.

If you are going to be presenting, please review our information for CppCon presenters.

When Lightning Talk submissions are open, you’ll find a submission link here so you can register for a Lightning Talk slot.

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If you have any questions about lightning talks please send mail to the Lightning Talks email list.