My plans at CppCon

It’s hard to believe CppCon 2020 is nearly here… in fact, pre-conference tutorials are already in progress.

I’ll be at the conference throughout the week in the hallways and session rooms. Here are some of the times I’ll be participating on the actual program:

Sunday 1300 MDT: Organizer’s Panel. In the middle of the Welcome Reception, we’re holding an Organizer’s Panel where several of us organizers will be talking about what to expect in the week ahead and available for extensive Q&A to answer any questions you may have. (We will have live music during the whole Welcome Reception, so be sure to watch the chat window for how to join that stream if you want to listen to our CppCon house band leader, Jim Basnight, perform for us.)Monday 1500 MDT: My AMA. I’ll be available for an “ask me anything” session. Attendees can ask questions across the board from C++20 features, to how the committee is working during the pandemic on C++23, to specific C++ features I’ve design or contributed to like concurrency or structured bindings or the spaceship operator, or other things you may think of.Tuesday 0730 MDT: Committee Fireside Chat Panel (moderator). This year, I won’t be a panelist myself, so I don’t plan to answer any questions. Instead, I’ll be the panel moderator, and we have a great slate of panelists again this year: Bjarne Stroustrup (of course), Bryce Adelstein Lelbach (library evolution subgroup chair), Hana Dusíková (compile-time programming subgroup chair), Inbal Levi (Israel national chair), JC Van Winkel (Netherlands national chair and teaching subgroup chair), JF Bastien (language evolution subgroup chair), Michael Wong (low-latency/gaming/embedded subgroup chair and AI subgroup chair), and Tony Van Eerd (expert in many subgroups and popular speaker). I can’t wait!Wednesday 0730 MDT: Bjarne Stroustrup AMA (moderator). This is Bjarne’s AMA, I’m just the moderator.(will be recorded) Friday 1330 MDT: Empirically Measuring, and Reducing, C++’s Accidental Complexity. This is my one actual talk, and it’s the last talk of the conference. It will be a major update of the talk I’ve given publicly one time before in Prague earlier this year, which after a broader intro focused specifically on parameter passing as an example of where we could dramatically simplify C++. This time I’ll include lots of updates, including that I hope to demo a working compiler implementation of the proposal.

Notes:

Denver time zone (MDT) is the default, which is where the physical CppCon usually happens. The Sched.org view lets you show the schedule in your own time zone.The conference starts Sunday. You don’t have to wait for Bjarne’s opening keynote on Monday… if you’re attending, be sure to make use of the Open House from 0900-1200 MDT where you can wander around, and especially the Welcome Reception from 1200-1430 MDT which includes the first panel (see above).

I look forward to seeing many of you there!