CppCon is now just 120 days away! The final program is expected to be available in late June, but in the meantime the organizers have shared a sneak peek at a partial list of speakers and topics for this year's event.

Program Update, Submission Deadline Reminder

by Boris Kolpackov

Speakers proposing talks so far include a nice mix of speakers -- not only the most widely known veteran C++ speakers and many active standards committee members, but also a range of speakers from industry and specific domains, and from all around the world forming a truly international cast:

• Alan Uthoff
• Andrew Stepanchuk
• Bjarne Stroustrup (keynote)
• Boris Kolpackov
• Brett Hall
• Camille Coti
• Edouard Alligand
• Eric Niebler
• Herb Sutter
• Jason Turner
• Jens Weller
• Joel Falcou
• John Farrier
• Jon Kalb
• Kate Gregory
• Marshall Clow
• Michael Caisse
• Michael Wong
• Nate Kohl
• Robert Ramey
• Roland Bock
• Pedro Ramalhete
• Peter Sommerlad
• Scott Meyers
• Sridhar Poduri
• Stefanus Du Toit
• Steve Heller

That's just the start, and is already more than 3x the number of speakers there were at GoingNative.

From the talks submitted so far, we are seeing several popular topic themes, with multiple sessions in each of the following themes (with more themes to come):

• new Standards Committee proposals for features and libraries
• how to write better and more modern C++ code or make the compiler help you do that
• developing for mobile platforms
• writing reliable and exception-safe code
• concurrent and lock-free programming
• database access and object persistence
• continuous delivery integration
• various memory models (shared, user mode virtual, and transactional)

Do you have a topic you could speak about for anything from 30 min to 3 hours? Submit a session proposal! The talk submission deadline is still open for at least another week. From the article:

While we already have some great content, we need more, so don’t forget to submit your proposal before the deadline, May 15. You only have one week left! To make the submission process smoother there is also the new, easier to use submission form.

Super Early Bird registration sold out, but Early Bird registration will be open until June 30. We look forward to seeing you with us in the hot crowd at this year's C++ fest in the beautiful Seattle area this September.