Volunteers | CppCon

The Volunteer Program

Our Volunteer Program is a great opportunity to participate in CppCon, allowing you to attend sessions and meet speakers and attendees, without the cost of registering or the need to attend all five days.

We need people to help with the many light duties necessary to run the conference. Some of these include:

Assembling registration packets and badges
Registering speakers and attendees
Assisting speakers with AV
Making general announcements at the beginning of sessions
Holding up information cards for speakers
Working the information desk
Answer questions of attendees

as well as generally being on hand to do whatever is needed to keep the conference running smoothly.

As a volunteer, I’ve handed out swag, kept watch over coats and bags, and helped attendees find anything from a conference room to their cell phone! With all that, there’s still ample time to attend talks and have deep conversations with interesting people. It’s a super way to give back to the C++ community while attending the conference for free! — Volunteer since 2015

Some tasks are done in sessions and some are not, but we’ll see to it that you can spend at least half your volunteering time in sessions.

Volunteering at CppCon over the last three years has been a great experience. My first year I didn’t know what to expect, but everyone was very helpful and made me feel like part of the team. You get to choose which sessions you attend and have the opportunity to interact with the speakers on a more personal level. If you’ve never been to a conference before, volunteering is a great way to get your feet wet. And if you’ve attended conferences before, volunteering will give you a whole new perspective on how conferences run. — Volunteer since 2015

It is best if you can attend several days, but even if you can only attend a single day we can work with that. It is particularly valuable if you can attend on Saturday and Sunday before the conference for volunteer training and to help with registration.