CppCon 2025 Call for Submissions – Tooling Track

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Modern C++ developers rely on a diverse range of tools and systems that streamline workflows, improve reliability, and enhance productivity. The CppCon 2025 Tooling Track is designed to explore, showcase, and deepen understanding of the tooling ecosystem surrounding C++ development.

Tooling track talks are relevant to a vast majority of C++ programmers, across industries and experience levels, and as such have a wide audience in the community.

We invite presentations covering all aspects of the tools that make working with C++ smoother, safer, faster, and more enjoyable. Whether you’re exploring fundamentals or pushing boundaries, we welcome submissions on topics such as:

  • Dependency and package management for C++
  • Innovations in C++ build systems for faster compilation (for example, modules!)
  • Debugging tools and techniques
  • Cross-language interoperability and tooling integration
  • Deep dives into the internals of C++ toolchains
  • CI / CD pipelines for C++
  • Leveling-up IDEs and editor experiences for C++
  • Automation tools that leverage or complement C++26 features

Who should submit? You! Whether you’re an experienced tooling developer, a passionate maintainer of essential libraries or tools, or an end-user eager to share practical insights and real-world case studies, your unique perspective is exactly what we’re looking for. Many talks from past years have been from C++ users who have explored the interesting corners of the C++ ecosystem and want to present their take.

In addition, the Tooling Track is also the perfect place for C++ tool vendors and associates to connect with their users face to face, highlight the latest and greatest developments, and connect in person with current and potential end users!

If these topics appeal to you, follow the instructions at the Main Program Submissions page to submit your talk proposal, and be sure to mark Tooling as the target track.

Contact us at tooling_track@cppcon.org if you would like to discuss more, if you’re wondering whether your topic fits in this track, or if you have other questions.

Saksham Sharma

Tooling Track Chair

CppCon 2025 Call for Submissions – Back to Basics Track

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To become an expert at any skill, one must first master the fundamentals. The Back to Basics (B2B) Track is calling for talks that showcase the foundational programming topics that every C++ programmer should know. CppCon has a history dating several years of Back to Basics topics that both beginners and experts can benefit from for learning and mastering C++ foundations. The visibility for these talks is high both onsite and on the CppCon YouTube channel — so we’d like you to consider submitting to this track and being part of this track’s rich history! So if you’re a beginner and have a fresh eye for learning a new topic, or an expert with years of wisdom to share, we want you to submit!

Submissions to this track focus on teaching and explaining the technical aspects of the C++ programming language from first principles. The talks in this track are technical, but each topic is taught from the first building blocks so the audience can follow along (and the attention to detail of a B2B talk may even benefit the experts!).

Past Topics for submission have included:

  • Debugging
  • Casting
  • Concurrency
  • Pointers
  • Arrays
  • Templates
  • Smart Pointers
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • And we also encourage repeats — because we want your unique way of teaching!

Trainers, teachers, engineers, or those with deep expertise of foundational topics (yes that’s you!) are wanted to help train the next C++ talent in the Back to Basics (B2B) Track!

Details on the submission process can be found on the Main Program Submissions page.

Mike Shah, Ph.D. and Klaus Iglberger

Back to Basics Track co-chairs

CppCon 2025 Call for Submissions – Software Design Track

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Building software is much more than just writing lines of code. Amongst other, it also entails the management of interactions, the reduction of coupling and dependencies between software entities and the creation of good and meaningful abstractions. These are the aspects focused on in the CppCon Software Design Track.

Since software design can play a much more central role for the success of a project than the low-level implementations could ever do, CppCon also desires to cover this aspect of software engineering. Therefore you are strongly encouraged to submit talks for the Software Design Track.

Topics may include:

  • Design for change, scalability, extension, and testability.
  • Design and architectural patterns.
  • Design techniques for all paradigms (OOP, FP, Generic, …).
  • Both static and dynamic polymorphism.
  • Good and bad experiences from real world projects (that is, war stories).
  • Advice on how to manage big projects via proper software organization.

Klaus Iglberger and Mike Shah, Ph.D.
Software Design Track co-chairs

CppCon 2025 – Call for Submissions

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CppCon is the annual, week-long (September 13th-19th, 2025) face-to-face gathering for the entire C++ community. The conference Main Program consists of five days of several concurrent tracks of sixty-minute sessions.

This conference is organized by the C++ Community for the C++ Community. We want the whole community to be represented. We especially encourage those who identify as coming from an underrepresented community to apply to present and to be present. Presenting a talk is not limited to previous presenters or previous attendees and first-time speakers are very welcome to submit.

This year’s edition of CppCon will be onsite at the Gaylord Rockies in Aurora, Colorado, USA.

Have you learned something interesting about C++, maybe a new technique possible in C++20/23/26? Or perhaps you have implemented something cool, maybe a new C++ library? Or perhaps have an idea for a future language or library feature that you want to advocate for? If so, consider sharing it with other C++ enthusiasts by giving a Main Program talk at CppCon 2025.

While CppCon is a conference about C++, talks about other programming languages are in scope for CppCon 2025 as long as they are of interest to C++ developers and tied to C++ evolution and are not primarily talks about rewriting entire C++ codebases in something other than C++. For example, a talk on How to migrate your C++ code to Haskell is off-topic and will not be considered, but a talk on What C++ Programmers Can Learn from Swift, or What Rust Procedural Macros Might Look Like in C++, or Results of Hylo/Carbon/Circle Experiments That Could Be Incorporated Into ISO C++ Evolution are on-topic and will be considered.

The submission deadline is May 11th, with decisions sent by June 22nd.

To facilitate a double-blind review process, please avoid statements in your title, abstract, and outline that remove all uncertainty about who you are. See examples on the Submissions page.

We plan to have all of the same tracks as last year (Back to Basics, Software Design, Tooling, Embedded, Robotics & AI, Scientific Computing, and GameDev). In addition, we are introducing a new Business & Career track this year. If you plan to submit to one or more of these tracks, please indicate in your submission which track(s) you’d expect your talk to fit into by ticking the appropriate checkbox. Of course, you are also welcome to submit a talk to the main program that does not fit into any of these tracks. If you have new ideas for tracks or special interest areas to better serve the C++ community, please get in touch with the program committee directly with your thoughts.

For talk topic ideas, possible formats, submission instructions and valuable advice on how to make the best possible submission, see the Submissions page.

Also, if you are an author, our Call for Authors for CppCon 2025 has already been posted here. This is a great opportunity to bring more attention to your book and interact with the C++ community.

Note: Calls for Lightning Talks and Open Content sessions will be made later this summer. The deadline for these is the conference itself.

CppCon 2025 – Call for Authors

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Book SIgningCppCon represents an unparalleled opportunity for C++ authors to engage with potential reviewers and readers.

For authors that are able to attend in person, the conference will schedule signing opportunities and panels with other authors. Authors can submit session proposals for the Main Program and/or Open Content sessions.

Book SigningEven for authors that cannot attend in person, the conference is an opportunity for exposure by working with authors to have their hard copy books available for sale at the conference and/or having special attendee discounts for ebook editions.

To register your interest in learning more about author opportunities at CppCon, please fill out the CppCon 2025 Call for Authors form.

CppCon Videos Among the Most Viewed Software Engineering Videos of 2024

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Tech Talks Weekly has released its list of the top 100 most viewed Software Engineering talks from 2024.

Presented to CppCon For passing 100,000 subscribersFour of these talks were from CppCon 2024 and are posted on the CppCon YouTube channel, which can be accessed through our Video Archive with its search features. Our channel currently has almost 160 thousand subscribers and has 1600 videos. In 2024, we had over three and half million views.

I’d like to thank and congratulate all our presenters, Program Committee members, conference planners and volunteers, Bash Films for recording and editing, Digital Medium for channel management, JetBrains for channel sponsorship, and our attendees and viewers for making the channel such a success. Particular thanks and congratulations go to:

Herb Sutter for Peering Forward – C++’s Next Decade

Daniel Anderson for Introduction to Wait-free Algorithms in C++ Programming

Andreas Fertig for Fast and Small C++ – When Efficiency Matters

Kevin Carpenter for Back to Basics: Almost Always Vector

Thanks and congratulations!

Call for Proposals for CppCon Academy 2025 Classes

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CppCon Academy is asking for instructors to submit proposals for pre- and post-conference classes and/or workshops to be taught in conjunction with this fall’s CppCon 2025.

The Academy is interested in proposals for either onsite classes or online classes.

If you are interested in teaching a class or workshop, please review the instructors’ prospectus and/or contact jon@cppcon.org with any questions that you might have. The deadline for submitting proposals is January 31, 2025.

CppCon 2024 Code of Conduct Transparency Report

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The following summary is intended to help the community understand what kind of Code of Conduct (CoC) incidents we received reports about in the year since the previous conference, and how the CppCon CoC team and organizers responded.

Overview

Again at CppCon 2024, staff and volunteers participated in CoC training prior to the conference.

The Code of Conduct team for CppCon 2024 was Colleen Passard (chair), Gillian Faith, and Jacqueline McCauley. Colleen Passard additionally served as on-site Ombudsperson.

The code of conduct for CppCon 2024 was published here, inclusive of commits up to and including 4c03199ab226e86f31977bad51c2f6c5aa9b5e89.

Summary of reports

Since the CppCon 2023 transparency report and during CppCon 2024, there were no CoC incidents reported to the CoC team.

Beyond the CoC: The Ombuds role

Starting at CppCon 2023, CppCon has an Ombudsperson role to provide support beyond cases involving potential CoC incidents. The Ombuds is an independent consultant who is professionally trained in well-being support, conflict resolution, and team dynamics that attendees may seek guidance on, and she is available on-site all week in a designated office. All attendees are welcome to approach the Ombuds for any questions, concerns, and/or confidential support.

During CppCon 2024, throughout the conference week several attendees took advantage of the Ombuds’ availability for personal and emotional support questions where the Ombuds was able to provide guidance and support, and for two cases of interpersonal frictions that the involved parties did not consider to be CoC incidents but where the Ombuds was able to provide assistance to facilitate dialogue or resolution.

Note that the Ombuds role extends beyond, but never replaces, the CoC process. Attendees are fully informed of the option to raise a CoC incident report, encouraged to engage in the reporting process when needed, and supported by both the Ombuds and the CoC team throughout.

CppCon 2024 Wrap-up and CppCon 2025 Dates!

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CppCon 2025

The above photo is from CppCon 2024 by CppCon’s photographer, Jonathan Phillips. Not only do I want to share this brilliant photo, I also want to announce CppCon 2025 dates, September 13 – 19 2025, save the dates now!

CppCon 2024 just wrapped up and was an amazing conference. For an early preview of what happened, see Herb’s keynote, Khalil’s keynote, Amanda’s keynote, David’s keynote, and Daveed’s keynote.

Videos of all our other Main Program sessions will start to be published on our YouTube channel, one a business day, starting in November. If you want access to this year’s CppCon videos as soon as they are available, then have we got something in store for you! Check out our Early Video Access option.

Trip Reports

I’ll update this post as trip reports are published. If you see a CppCon 2024 trip report published or you’d like your trip report to be included, please send us a note. You can see some short reports on LinkedIn and on Twitter.

Thanks

A conference the size of CppCon doesn’t just happen. There are a lot of heroes that work hard to make this happen. You’ll find many of their names on our staff page which lists the organizers, program committee, volunteers, and vendors.

You’d find more names (and faces) on the presenters page for this year’s conference which lists presenters from the Main Program, panels, Poster Program, Open Content sessions, and lightning talks.

As much as all of these people work hard so that we are providing the best that we can in technical content, food, production values, live music, comfortable ambiance, and supportive environment, none of those is the most important part of CppCon.

Returning attendees know that the most important part of CppCon is the opportunity to engage with the attendees (including the presenters), who are tackling some of our most challenging problems, with creative and innovative techniques, using powerful tools provided by C++ and the C++ community.

CppCon 2024 Conference photo

Above, you’ll see the faces of the most important part of CppCon, the attendees. (I’ve not matched faces to the registration list to verify that no one is missing, but I think most of us are in the photo.)

This year, more than any other, you are all my heroes.

I look forward to seeing you all next year.

Jon Kalb
Conference Chair

2024 Keynote on Gazing Beyond Reflection for C++26: Daveed Vandevoorde, prerelease

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Daveed Vandevoorde on “Gazing Beyond Reflection for C++26” at their CppCon 2024 keynote in Aurora, Colorado!

This video is in “prerelease” and cannot be found directly on our YouTube channel, instead we are providing a direct link here only! Feel free to share this with colleagues and friends and impress them with your insider access 😉

Also, remember to bookmark our Video Archive Portal (VAP) and check back each day for each new keynote as it becomes available – the VAP portal will provide exclusive access to all CppCon 2024 Keynotes/Plenaries, in addition to providing Early Access to the rest of the 2024 video releases (separate registration required).