CppCon 2026

CppCon 2026

10:30 MDT

Field Trip: Red Rocks & Dinosaur Ridge Rockies Square

17:30 MDT

Tee Shirt Night Gaylord Rockies

20:00 MDT

Registration Reception Colorado Pre-function

08:00 MDT

Registration _1

08:30 MDT

Plenary Colorado A

10:15 MDT

Conference Group Photo Colorado A

11:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Move Semantics _3Ruslan Arutyunyan From 20 Nanoseconds to One: Optimizing Bishop, Rook, and Queen Move Generation in a Chess Engine _4Aryan Naraghi Composing the Future: Async Workflows with std::execution _2Alistair Fisher • Ivy Zhang From Firmware to Screen: Real-Time Control, Simulation, and Visualization in C++23 With CUDA and Unreal Engine _1Kevin Gomez Same Bits Without Losing MIPS: Reproducible Numerics at Full Hardware Speed _6Andrew Drakeford Queue Discipline: A Deep Dive into Lock-Free SPSC, MPSC, SPMC, and MPMC Queues in Modern C++ _5Anmol Singhal

14:00 MDT

Back to Basics: Templates _3Laurent Carlier Pointers to Power: Navigating Organizational Influence _5Matt Kulukundis Thinking Low Level, Writing High Level _6Ignas Bagdonas Component based or monolithic development for large C and C++ projects: Why not both? _1Diego Rodriguez-Losada Gonzalez Towards a complete contract-assertion facility for C++ _4Timur Doumler Familiar C++ Patterns That Fail at Scale and the Design Shifts That Prevent Them _2Divya Chandrasekar • Devpriya Dave

15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Code Analysis _3Alexsandro Thomas Escaping the AST: A Data-Oriented, Lock-Free Parallel Compiler Architecture _4Aditya Kumar The journey to "/W4 /WX": How hard could it be? _1Keith Stockdale std::simd Without Compromise: Making SIMD in C++26 and Beyond as Fast as Silicon Allows _2Ruslan Arutyunyan • Daniel Towner Capability Routing Grid: From Decoupled Plugins to the Hardware Ceiling _5Cyril TISSIER Catching Leaks: How to stop a C++ program at the exact instruction that leaks memory _6Henning Meyer

16:45 MDT

Back to Basics: Lambdas, Function Objects, and std::function _3Roth Michaels Ensuring Code Quality in the Age of AI : More Code, Less Engineering! _4Peter Muldoon AEMBER: Modern Embedded C++ Without the Chaos _6Arian Ajdari You’re absolutely wrong! How to get agents to solve complex problems with complex code. _1Greg Law • Mark Williamson Using Type Erasure to Extend APIs You Don't Own: A Case Study From Audio Plugin Development _2Jan Wilczek My DAG Ate All My Cores: Identifying and Resolving Build Graph Bottlenecks _5Florent Castelli

18:30 MDT

HRT Happy Hour Mountain Pass Sports Bar

20:30 MDT

Committee Fireside Chat Colorado A

09:00 MDT

Back to Basics: std::unordered_map _3Kevin Carpenter Implementing Flat Containers: Design and Optimisations in libc++'s flat_{set, map} _1Hui Xie Processor Design and C++ Memory Models _2Ofek Shilon Scaling Robotics to 200 Developers: Flexible C++ Architectures for Kinematics, Dynamics, Simulation & Control _4Carl Saldanha Death by a Thousand Tape Entries: Low-Overhead Automatic Differentiation for Scientific and Financial C++ _5Jorg Lotze What's New for C++ in Visual Studio Code: C++ and AI Tooling for Your Build, Your Code, Your Workflow _6Sinem Akinci • Ben McMorran

10:30 MDT

Plenary Colorado A

14:00 MDT

What Are We Synchronizing? _5Robert Leahy Inside a Small Game Engine: An Architecture Tour in Modern C++ _4Elias Farhan Breaking the Speed Limit: Building a High-Throughput Hashing Engine With C++26 _6Yannic Staudt Rule of 0,1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10? _1Jason Turner Running Compiler Explorer in 2026: Sandboxes, Storage, and Strangers' Code _2Matt Godbolt C++ at Scale _3Radoslav Zlatev

15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: C++20 Concepts _3Amir Kirsh Hacking and Securing C++ _5Marcell Juhasz C++ in an AI World _1Jody Hagins Lock-Free Timer Scheduling With C++ Atomics _4Maxim Gurschi Compile-Time Polymorphism for Runtime-Flexible Systems: Lessons from OpenJDK _2Shubhankar Gambhir Mock Any Function in C++ Without Changing a Single Line of Code _6Ilya Ermakov • Brian Rudo-Hutt • Ruifeng Zhang

16:45 MDT

Back to Basics: Function Overloading _3chris ryan The Value of Idiomatic Code _5John Pavan Graphics Programming with SDL 3 Part 2 _4Mike Shah Can I memcpy This Type Across a Boundary? Verifying Object Representation at Compile Time With C++26 Reflection _2Fanchen Su Practical HPC — Forcing the Compiler's Hand with Modern C++ _1Marco Barbone From User to Contributor: Fixing Bugs and Adding Features in Clang _6Matheus Izvekov

18:30 MDT

Citadel Reception _1

20:30 MDT

C++: The Documentary _1

09:00 MDT

Deterministic Storage: Building a Predictable Embedded File System in Modern C++ _5Elbert Dockery Turbocharging Native Code Performance: Compiler Optimizations, Profile-guided Optimizations, and Beyond _4Eric Brumer Awaiters and Awaitables _2Mateusz Pusz What can C++26 reflection do for you?: A practical experiment in using reflection with an emphasis on binary protocol support _1Andy Webber CUDA Tile C++: Practical Automatic Parallelization for the GPU _6Ezra Stein Ranges Without Compromise: Designing for Simplicity, Performance, and Composability _3Oleksandr Bacherikov

10:30 MDT

Plenary Colorado A

14:00 MDT

Embedded-Friendly C++: Modern Features That Make a Difference _4Andreas Fertig In Pursuit of a 6,000 FPS Game Boy Emulator _5Tom Tesch Interesting Upcoming Low-Latency, Networking, Concurrency, and Parallelism Features from Kona 2025, Croydon 2026, and Brno 2026 _1Paul E. McKenney • Maged Michael • Michael Wong The Ghost in the Heap: Defeating a Memory Thief _2Nicolas Arroyo Refactoring Techniques and Strategies (a Tale in Three Acts) _3Dave Steffen Automatic Splitting of Translation Units: Compiler-Agnostic Compiler Frontend Parallelization _6Damien Buhl

15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Computer Systems _3Mike Shah Readable Async Workflows in Modern C++: Coroutines Meet std::expected _2Futong Liu Writing High Performance Parsers Using State Machines _1Torben Thaysen You Shall Not Pass*! _5Daniel Pfeifer AI is UB with Better PR _4Matt Kulukundis • Andy Soffer Works on My Machine, Works in CI: Treating Your Build Toolchain as a Dependency _6Luis Caro Campos

16:45 MDT

Meet Guy Davidson _2Guy Davidson • Sherry Sontag Zero Cost Scripting Languages for Game Engines With C++26 Static Reflection _4Koen Samyn CMake: Making Hard Things Easy _1Bill Hoffman Modern C++ Techniques to Reduce Boilerplate Without Sacrificing Performance _5VISHNU G NATH The Clocks of C++: Knowing When (and Why) to Use Each One _3Sandor Dargo C++ Core Guidelines Enforcement in Practice _6Paul Jansen

21:00 MDT

Lightning Talks Colorado B

09:00 MDT

The C++ safety issues your tools can't see _4Ion Todirel Tying up Loose Threads: Making Your Project No-GIL Ready _5Charlie Lin Back to Basics: Loops in C++ _3Nicolai Josuttis Beyond Monads: Pattern Matching Alternatives for Result Types _2Vitaly Fanaskov The State of Boost: Boost Is Where You Become the Engineer You Want to Be _6Harold Bott Writing Low-Latency C++: Predictability, Cache, and the Architectures Underneath _1Sampad Acharya

09:35 MDT

When Air Gaps Learn: AI, Data, and the New C++ Attack Surface _4Matthew Butler [[musttail]]-ling Our Way to a Faster Python Interpreter and New JIT Compiler _5Ken Jin Ooi

10:30 MDT

Plenary Colorado A

14:00 MDT

C++ in the Age of AI: How Visual Studio Is Evolving _6David Li • Augustin Popa Generating Reliable Reference Documentation for Modern C++ Using the Clang AST _5Alan de Freitas Type Punning: the joke is on you, pun intended. Fixing UB of reinterpret_cast! _4Lieven de Cock Using Modules in a Real Project _3Erez Strauss What Is Your Algorithmic Core? _2Egor Suvorov When Zero-Cost Abstractions Aren’t Zero-Cost _1Steve Sorkin

15:15 MDT

Back to Basics: Memory Alignment _3Sarthak Sehgal Building C++20 Modules: The Rest of the Story _2Vito Gamberini C++23 Tools you will actually use _5Alex Dathskovsky Coroutines for Dummies _4Dominic Fischer Leveraging LLM to Generate Unittests for Notifiers in Taskflow _6Snikitha Siddavatam The Latency Slippage: Understanding the Hidden Costs of Caching for Low Latency C++ _1Sanchit Gupta

16:45 MDT

Getting More Out of AI in C++: Custom Hooks, Skills, and MCP servers _3Alexandra Kemper Extending Google Test for Statistical Benchmarking, CUDA Profiling, and CI Performance Regression _4Kevin Gomez Mentoring Through Code Review in a Senior-heavy C++ Team _5Roth Michaels Are You Smarter Than A Branch Predictor? _2Michelle D'Souza Quicker Than Quick: Using Radix Sort to Make `std::stable_sort` Beat `std::sort` _1Dmitriy Izvolov

17:20 MDT

API Design is Language Design: Lessons from Go's net/http library for C++ _4Tim van Deurzen Who Is #include-ing You? Measuring the Impact of C++ Libraries _3John Parent

18:30 MDT

Meet the Presenters Banquet Colorado C/D

20:30 MDT

Lightning Talks Colorado B

09:00 MDT

The Next 20 Weeks of Systems Engineering _1Andrei Alexandrescu “If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It”: From Profiling to Automatic Benchmarking _5Kris Jusiak C++ Views and Pipelines _2Nicolai Josuttis C++26: A Curated Tour of What's New _3Marc Gregoire Safety in Numbers _6Jason Turner Code Like a Library Author: How to Write Better C++ Application Code _4Jon Kalb

10:30 MDT

Back to Basics: Containers _3Alan Talbot Memory Safety on a Microcontroller: What Embedded C++ Teams Can Actually Do Today _5Darijo Topic Senders, Receivers, and Robots: Structured Concurrency for Autonomous Navigation _2Nahuel Espinosa IEEE 754 Decimals for C++: The Boost.Decimal Library _4Matt Borland Incremental Modernization: Refactoring Legacy OOP Application Code using Type Erasure and Functional C++ _1Jessica Ding Generating Language Bindings using C++ Reflection _6Callum Piper

13:30 MDT

Back to Basics: Text Formatting _5Ben Saks Code You Didn't Write: Understanding Large and Unfamiliar Codebases _6Chris Croft-White • Mike Shah The Real Story of C++26: Beyond the Headline Features _1Sandor Dargo Why Great C++ Libraries Fail (And How to Fix That) _2Mateusz Pusz Implementing Async RAII _4Robert Leahy Modernizing Legacy Codebases without Stopping the World _3Peter Muldoon

14:45 MDT

Back to Basics: const, constexpr, consteval _5Andreas Fertig Good boss, bad boss: how to be a good manager, and how to manage a bad one. _6Greg Law Escaping 1996: Meta-Modern C++ Techniques for Embedded Systems _4Michael Caisse Our Journey Toward a Fully Backward-Compatible, UB-Safe, ISO C++ _2John Lakos What 25 Days of Optimisations Taught Me About Compilers _1Matt Godbolt Concurrency for Modern CPUs - Lock-Free or Lock-based? _3Fedor Pikus

16:15 MDT

Closing Plenary Colorado A