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Updated Call for Submissions Deadline: Friday February 20th 2026

Updated Call for Submissions Deadline is now: February 20th 2026 The C++Now 2026 Call For Submissions is now open! We cordially invite all members of the C++ community, including first time submitters, to submit session proposals for the 14th annual C++Now Conference, to be held May 4th – May 8th, 2026, in Aspen, Colorado. We look forward to considering your proposals. You will be joining leading speakers from the entire C++ community in making C++Now 2026 better than ever. The C++Now Conference focuses on open source software C++ usage and development, and the evolution of the C++ language. The audience at C++Now includes: o C++ users, o Beman Project Library author and maintainers, o C++ based open source authors, o C++ library and framework developers, o C++ compiler and tooling developers, o Individuals involved in the evolution of the C++ and other programming languages. The program fosters interaction and engagement within and across those groups, with an emphasis on discussion and collaboration. https://lnkd.in/dqFf4W8M

Registration for C++Now 2026 is now open! The fourteenth annual C++Now Conference will be held at the Aspen Center for Physics in Aspen, Colorado, from May 4th - 8th Find out more and register today: https://lnkd.in/eSU4Mrwp #cpp #cplusplus #programming #coding

C++Now 2025 - Lightning Talk: Ali Almutawa Jr.: "Strongly Typed `using` C++ Declarations" youtu.be/DPgO_VbV4Bc Going through an on-going proposal of a new C++ feature; strongly typed typedefs. --- Ali Almutawa Jr. Ali Almutawa is a grad student at Northwestern University interested in programming language design and development.

C++Now 2025 - Lightning Talk: Malte Skarupke: "Taking C++ Benchmarking Seriously" youtu.be/C0NepTzGN9Q Half of my success in performance can be traced to the fact that I started taking benchmarking very seriously at some point and wrote my own benchmarking library. Existing tools just didn't scale past simple use cases. I'll demo the library and explain why adding a bit of noise allows you to measure really small effects you need a UI to get fast iteration times and deal with combinatorial explosion of benchmarks you need to organize your benchmarks and results with tags in a database you want only line graphs as your visualization --- Malte Skarupke I do formal verification of glibc for fun, or write a new sorting algorithm. At home I like working on algorithms, at work I tend to work on testing or performance. I have 12 years of industry experience. For the last five years I have worked in finance, writing Ocaml, Python and CUDA. Before that I wrote C++ for 7 years in video games. I gave two previous talks, one on generalized radix sorting in 2017 and one on fast hash tables in 2018. I blog at www.probablydance.com

C++Now 2025 - Lightning Talk: Richard Powell: "Laws of Software" youtu.be/csqfGJxx2TE A collection of Murphy law related quotes. That's it. --- Richard Powell began using C++ 20 years ago to develop a psychoacoustic audio encoder/decoder, and has since continued exploring how to create software that unlocks the potential of hardware to deliver incredible audio experiences. He enjoys both teaching and learning about C++ and programming, and has presented several talks at CppCon as well as at local Bay Area C++ user groups. Beyond computers, Richard plays both the trombone and piano (though not usually at the same time) and performs jazz and classical music at local events.

The 2026 Call for Submissions is now open!! We cordially invite all members of the C++ community to submit session proposals for the 14th annual C++Now Conference, to be held May 4th – May 8th in Aspen, Colorado. For more info, see https://lnkd.in/eqnBcPNk #Cplusplus #Cpp

C++Now 2025 - Lightning Talk: Tobias Loew - "Hilbert's Hotel - Counting to Infinity and Beyond" youtu.be/XUJ65o8N0hs third part of the "Hilbert's Hotel" series --- Tobias Loew Mathematician with almost 30 years of professional C++ development, regular visitor of C++Now

C++Now 2025 - Lightning Talk: Robert Leahy: "Immovable C++ Objects? In My Vector? - It's More Likely Than You Think" youtu.be/Si2OGDvI4aI std::vector is everyone's favorite container, but it comes with a catch: To grow, it must move its elements. That makes it a non-starter for storing immovable types, right? Not always. In this lightning talk, we'll explore how, under the right conditions, you can store immovable objects in a std::vector. The trick? Knowing when growth can't happen. --- Robert Leahy Robert is a graduate of the University of Victoria where he specialized in graphics, gaming, and digital geometry processing. After spending 4.5 years in full stack web development he pivoted to financial infrastructure in early 2016 and now works on next generation market data storage and retrieval mechanisms. In 2019 he became involved in the ISO C++ committee with a particular focus on library evolution.

C++Now 2025 - Lightning Talk: Matt Kulukundis: "Ship Comms - How do They Work?" youtu.be/RFvnXCHS57M How do we know where all the ships in the world are at all times? The answer is a long chain of historical protocols layered on top of each other. --- Matt Kulukundis Matt co-founded BrontoSource, a startup that builds tools to modernize legacy codebases at scale with a focus on the C/C++ space. Prior to founding BrontoSource, Matt spent eleven years at Google where he led the Software Ecosystems organization as a Principal Engineer. During that time he designed language and library features for migration, as well as directly planning and executing multiple migrations of previously unapproachable difficulty. Rust’s std::collections::HashMap and Go's map are based directly on his work.