CppCon 2016

Jon Kalb is a freelance C++ instructor and chairs CppCon, C++ Now, and the Boost Steering Committee. He has been programming in C++ for over 25 years and has written C++ for Amazon, Apple, Dow Chemical, Intuit, Lotus, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, and Yahoo!

Hans is the WG21 SG1 (Concurrency) Chair, and co-led the design of the C++ memory model and atomic operations. He now mostly works on concurrency-related issues in Android, and occasionally on teaching calculators to calculate correctly. In the past, he mostly focused on garbage collection. He is the original primary author of bdwgc, a conservative garbage collector for C and C++. http://hboehm.info

Chandler Carruth leads the Clang team at Google, building better diagnostics, tools, and more. Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google’s distributed build system. He makes guest appearances helping to maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google’s codebase, and is active in the LLVM and Clang open source communities. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, but disavows all... Read More →

Casey Carter is longtime user of C++ who recently ended his career in aerospace manufacturing to participate in C++ standardization. After attending a WG21 meeting, his enthusiasm for Concept library design and semantics somehow turned into authorship of the Ranges TS. He is currently pursuing interests in Ranges, world domination, and doughnuts at Microsoft Redmond.

Marshall is a long-time LLVM and Boost participant. He is a principal engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. in San Diego, and the code owner for libc++, the LLVM standard library implementation. He is the author of the Boost.Algorithm library and maintains several other Boost libraries.

C++: history, design, use, standardization, future; performance, reliability; software developer education; | distributed systems

Author, chair of the ISO C++ committee, software architect at Microsoft.

Michael Wong is VP of R&D at Codeplay; a current Director and VP of ISOCPP.org, and a senior member of the C++ Standards Committee with 15 years of experience. He chairs the WG21 SG5 Transactional Memory and SG14 Games Development/Low Latency/Financials C++ groups and is the co-author of a number C++/OpenMP/Transactional Memory features including generalized attributes, user-defined literals, inheriting constructors, weakly ordered... Read More →