2024 Schedule – C++Now Schedule

Sunday 28th April

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Monday 29th April

Opening Keynote: C++ Painkillers

The Evolution of C++ Toolability

09:00 - 10:30Paepcke AuditoriumView SlidesAnastasia Kazakova

Break – 10:30 – 11:00

Value Oriented Programming Part V

Return of the Values

Value Semantics

11:00 - 12:30Flug AuditoriumTony Van Eerd

Expressive Compile-Time Parsers

API Design

11:00 - 12:30Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesAlon Wolf

C++ Reflection

Back on Track

Future C++

11:00 - 12:30Bethe HallView SlidesDavid Olsen

Lunch – 12:30 – 14:30

Coroutines and Structured Concurrency in Practice

Coroutines

14:30 - 16:00Flug AuditoriumView SlidesDmitry Prokoptsev

Newer Isn’t Always Better

Investigating Legacy Design Trends and Their Modern Replacements

Design Trends

14:30 - 16:00Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesKatherine Rocha

Boost.Parser (Part 1 of 2)

A Parser Combinator Library for C++

API Design

14:30 - 16:00Bethe HallView SlidesZach Laine

Break – 16:00 – 16:30

The importance of the build system target model

16:30 - 18:00Flug AuditoriumView SlidesBill Hoffman

C++ Should Be C++

16:30 - 18:00Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesDavid Sankel

Boost.Parser (Part 2 of 2)

A Parser Combinator Library for C++

API Design

16:30 - 18:00Bethe HallView SlidesZach Laine

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Tuesday 30th April

Library In A Week

Library in a Week / Feature in a Week

08:00 - 08:50Flug AuditoriumJeff Garland & Marshall Clow

C++26 Preview

09:00 - 10:30Flug AuditoriumJeff Garland

Rappel: Compose Algorithms, not Iterators

Google's Alternative to Ranges

Standard Library

09:00 - 10:30Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesJohn Bandela & Chris Philip

What we’ve been awaiting for?

Coroutines

09:00 - 10:30Bethe HallView SlidesHana Dusíková

Break – 10:30 – 11:00

Unlocking Modern CPU Power

Next-Gen C++ Optimization Techniques

11:00 - 12:30Flug AuditoriumView SlidesFedor Pikus

Coroutines at scale

Implementation choices at Google

Coroutines

11:00 - 12:30Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesAaron Jacobs

Developing Better Code by Isolating Decisions

API Design

11:00 - 12:30Bethe HallView SlidesMichael Okyen

Lunch – 12:30 – 14:30

Reintroduction to Generic Programming

14:30 - 16:00Flug AuditoriumView SlidesNick DeMarco

Dependency Injection in C++

A Practical Guide

14:30 - 16:00Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesPeter Muldoon

Functional C++

14:30 - 16:00Bethe HallView SlidesGašper Ažman

Break – 16:00 – 16:30

An Adventure in Modern Library Design

16:30 - 18:00Flug AuditoriumView SlidesRobert Leahy

C++ Memory Model

from C++11 to C++23

Future C++

16:30 - 18:00Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesAlex Dathskovsky

A New Dragon in the Den

Fast conversion from floating point numbers

Math/Analysis

16:30 - 18:00Bethe HallView SlidesCassio Neri

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Wednesday 1st May

Library In A Week

Library in a Week / Feature in a Week

08:00 - 08:50Flug AuditoriumJeff Garland & Marshall Clow

Keynote: Employing Senders and Receivers to Tame Concurrency in Embedded Systems

Embedded

09:00 - 10:30Paepcke AuditoriumView SlidesMichael Caisse

Break – 10:30 – 11:00

Reflection is good for (code) health

New-age libraries to look forward to

Generic/Metaprogramming

11:00 - 12:30Flug AuditoriumView SlidesSaksham Sharma

Implementing Ranges and Views

Standard Library

11:00 - 12:30Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesRoi Barkan

An (In-)Complete Guide to C++ Object Lifetimes

Future C++

11:00 - 12:30Bethe HallView SlidesJonathan Müller

Boost Foundation Board Meeting

Planning

12:45 - 14:00Bethe HallBob Steagall

Lunch – 12:30 – 14:30

C++ is a metacompiler

14:30 - 15:15Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesDaniel Nikpayuk

A case study in zero-cost abstractions

High performance message dispatch

14:30 - 16:00Flug AuditoriumView SlidesLuke Valenty

Building Consensus

Rules for Our massive C++ codebase

15:15 - 16:00Lauder Seminar RoomSherry Sontag

Backporting Safety

14:30 - 16:00Bethe HallView SlidesTaylor Foxhall

Break – 16:00 – 16:30

Zero overhead pass by value through invocable abstractions

Generic/Metaprogramming

16:30 - 17:15Flug AuditoriumView SlidesFilipp Gelman

<Random> harder better faster stronger

Math/Analysis

16:30 - 17:15Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesAdrien Devresse

C++ Overload Inspector

A tool for analyzing and profiling overloaded function calls

Tooling/Utilities

16:30 - 17:15Bethe HallView SlidesBotond Istvan Horvath

ALSan(attachable leak sanitizer)

Tooling/Utilities

17:15 - 18:00Flug AuditoriumView SlidesBojun Seo

Testability and API Design

API Design

17:15 - 18:00Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesJohn Pavan, Lukas Zhao & Aram Chung

Fun with Flags

Type-safe bitwise operations

Generic/Metaprogramming

17:15 - 18:00Bethe HallView SlidesTobias Loew

Lightning Talks

Open Content

20:00 - 21:30Flug AuditoriumMichael Caisse

Impromptu Social

21:30 - 23:00Meadows Resort - West End Bar

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Thursday 2nd May

Library In A Week

Library in a Week / Feature in a Week

08:00 - 08:50Flug AuditoriumJeff Garland & Marshall Clow

What does it take to implement the standard library?

Standard Library

09:00 - 10:30Flug AuditoriumView SlidesChristopher Di Bella

Generic Arity: Definition-Checked Variadics in Carbon

Future C++

09:00 - 10:30Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesGeoffrey Romer

Unit Testing an Expression Template Library in C++20

Tooling/Utilities

09:00 - 10:30Bethe HallView SlidesBraden Ganetsky

Break – 10:30 – 11:00

C++ Type Erasure Demystified

11:00 - 12:30Flug AuditoriumView SlidesFedor Pikus

Our Other C++ Interfaces

Mistakes to Avoid When Writing C++ Projects

API Design

11:00 - 12:30Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesBret Brown

How do Time Travel Debuggers Work?

Design and implementation of a time travel debugger

Tooling/Utilities

11:00 - 12:30Bethe HallView SlidesGreg Law

2025 Planning Meeting

12:45 - 14:00Bethe HallBob Steagall

Lunch – 12:30 – 14:30

Concept Maps using C++23 Library Tech

Indirection to APIs for a Concept

Generic/Metaprogramming

14:30 - 16:00Flug AuditoriumView SlidesSteve Downey

This is C++

Future C++

14:30 - 16:00Lauder Seminar RoomJon Kalb

The Most Important API Design Guideline

No, It's Not That One

API Design

14:30 - 16:00Bethe HallView SlidesJody Hagins

Break – 16:00 – 16:30

Security in C++

Hardening techniques from the trenches

Standard Library

16:30 - 18:00Flug AuditoriumLouis Dionne

Glean: Code Indexing at Meta

Tooling/Utilities

16:30 - 18:00Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesMichael Park

The Vector Challenge

API Design

16:30 - 18:00Bethe HallLisa Lippincott

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Friday 3rd May

Library In A Week

Library in a Week / Feature in a Week

08:00 - 08:50Flug AuditoriumJeff Garland & Marshall Clow

Embedded Asynchronous Abstraction

Implementing Senders & Receivers Without an OS

Embedded

09:00 - 10:30Flug AuditoriumView SlidesBen Deane

Modernizing Finite State Machines Implementation

Empowering Simplicity and Boosting Performance with std::variant

Generic/Metaprogramming

09:00 - 10:30Lauder Seminar RoomView SlidesAmandeep Chawla

Designing a Slimmer Vector of Variants

09:00 - 10:30Bethe HallView SlidesChristopher Fretz

Break – 10:30 – 11:00

Closing Keynote: Development tools: Past, Present and Future

Tooling/Utilities

11:00 - 12:30Paepcke AuditoriumView SlidesMarshall Clow

Lunch – 12:30 – 14:30

Future of Boost Panel Discussion / Conference Close

Open Content

14:30 - 16:00Flug AuditoriumZach Laine, David Sankel, Michael Caisse, Bob Steagall, Kristen Shaker & Jeff Garland