CppCon 2015

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!

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 →

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.

Dr. Lawrence Crowl has expertise in programming languages, compilers, and parallel programming. He has been mixing threads with C++ for twenty-five years and is a major contributor to C++11. His goal is to achieve both high quality and high performance programs.

Gabriel Dos Reis is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. He is also a researcher and a longtime member of the C++ community.  His research interests include programming tools for dependable software. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University.  Dr. Dos Reis was a recipient of the 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research in compilers for dependable... Read More →

Richard is the code owner of the Clang C++ frontend, to which he has been contributing for over five years. He implemented most of the C++11, C++14, and C++17 features that Clang supports, and brought Clang's modules support up to production quality. | Richard is also the Project Editor of the ISO C++ committee, in which he is an active participant. He proposed or contributed to more than half of the language features added in C++14 and C++17.

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

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

Ville Voutilainen is the Chair of the Evolution Working Group, and also a gcc/libstdc++ developer. He's the Finnish representative in the C++ committee, and has contributed to numerous C++11 and C++14 facilities, including override/final, lambda init-captures, aggregate NSDMIs, and more.

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 →