2026 Schedule

All times are in BST (British Summer Time - UTC+1)
Timings are provisional and are subject to adjustment over the next few weeks.
Monday
15th June 2026
workshops, day 1
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09:00
Arrival and registration ☕️
10:00
WORKSHOP: C++ Best Practices
Jason Turner
WORKSHOP: C++ Software Design
Klaus Iglberger
WORKSHOP: C++ Templates for Developers
Walter E Brown
WORKSHOP: Unsafe Rust demystified
Florian Gilcher
WORKSHOP: Talking Tech (A Speaker Training Workshop)
Sherry Sontag
Peter Muldoon
Phil Nash
18:00
End of workshops
Tuesday
16th June 2026
workshops, day 2
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09:00
Arrival and registration ☕️
10:00
WORKSHOP: C++ Best Practices
Jason Turner
WORKSHOP: C++23 in Practice: An Introduction for Day-to-day Use
Nicolai M. Josuttis
WORKSHOP: C++ Templates for Developers
Walter E Brown
WORKSHOP: Secure Coding in C and C++
Robert C. Seacord
WORKSHOP: Talking Tech (A Speaker Training Workshop)
Sherry Sontag
Peter Muldoon
Phil Nash
18:00
Early registration Reception 🍸
Wednesday
17th June 2026
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09:00
Welcome and news
09:30
The Next 20 Weeks of Systems Engineering
Andrei Alexandrescu
11:00
Refreshments break (30 mins)
11:30
Rust for The Curious C++ Developers
Victor Ciura
The Async Pattern Graveyard
Robert Leahy
Taming C++23: The things about C++23 you do not know
Nicolai M. Josuttis
O(1) or O(no-no-no): Mastering the unordered_map
Kevin B. Carpenter
Dangerous Optimizations! Part Deux
Robert C. Seacord
13:00
Lunch break
14:30
Contracts, safety and correctness
Lucian Radu Teodorescu
Senders For Existing Asynchronous Interfaces
Dietmar Kühl
Demystifying C++ initializer_list: Design, Behavior, and Best Practices
Chandranath Bhattacharyya
Prithvi Okade
16 Years Doing C++ Standardization Work: A Personal Retrospective
Nevin ":-)" Liber
Footguns, Film Study, and Forty Years of Failure: What std::vector Taught Me About API Design
Jody Hagins
16:00
Refreshments break (30 mins)
16:30
Postmodern Programming
Tony Van Eerd
Refactoring Towards Structured Concurrency
Roi Barkan
Design Patterns - The Most Common Misconceptions (3 of N)
Klaus Iglberger
One lib to rule them all and in the darkness bindgen...
Kay Hicketts
Antonello Palazzi
Real-time Safety — Guaranteed by the Compiler!
Anders Schau Knatten
17:30
18:00
⚡ Lightning Talks
19:00
Welcome Reception, sponsored by Mosaic Financial Markets
Mosaic Financial Markets
Thursday
18th June 2026
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09:00
Welcome and news
09:30
KEYNOTE: In the Beginning: A Genesis of Our Craft
Walter E Brown
11:00
Refreshments break (30 mins)
11:30
Modernizing Legacy Codebases without Stopping the World
Peter Muldoon
Our Journey Toward a Fully Backward-Compatible, UB-Safe, ISO C++
John Lakos
Dependency Injection and Dependency Inversion: C++ Perspective
Vladimir Vishnevskii
AI writes all your code now, how will you ever debug it?
Greg Law
Mark Williamson
The Not-So-Hidden Corners of C++ ABI Stability
Luis Caro Campos
13:00
Lunch break
14:30
Serial C++ can be parallel too
Eran Gilad
C++ Magic Statics Demystified: History, Internals, Pitfalls, and Optimizations
Kathleen Baker
Chandranath Bhattacharyya
What static, inline, const, constexpr Mean and When to Use Them
Andreas Fertig
Bridging CPUs and GPUs with std::execution - Using Senders / Receivers as a Frame Graph
Al-Afiq Yeong
Incrementally migrating C++ to a memory safe language
Tim Condon
15:30
Refreshments break (30 mins)
16:00
CallMeMaybe: Building Modern Runtime Reflection via C++26
Laurie Kirk
Implementing C++ Standard Library: Design and Optimisations in Libc++
Hui Xie
How Invariant are Invariants?
David Olsen
The Biggest Misconception of Computer Science
Alex Dathskovsky
Modular Monoliths and Other Facepalms
Kevlin Henney
17:00
17:30
⚡ Lightning Talks
18:30
19:00
🍿 Movie Night
Walter E Brown
Friday
19th June 2026
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09:00
Welcome and news
09:15
C++26 Uncovered: Everything You Need to Know About the New Standard
Inbal Levi
Fearless Concurrency in C++
Tristan Brindle
Constraining templates before and after C++20 - The what, the how, and the why
Johannes Kalmbach
The Performance Mindset
Mathieu Ropert
Code Reviews: Building Better Code and Stronger Teams
Sandor DARGO
10:15
Refreshments break (30 mins)
10:45
Generating Language Bindings using C++ Reflection
Callum Piper
Concurrency - All the Way Down
Ofek Shilon
Floating points essentials
Peter Hrenka
The journey to "/W4 /WX": How hard could it be?
Keith Stockdale
Stop Boiling Your Frogs: High Impact Fixes to Problems of Scale
Lara Bailey
12:15
Lunch break
14:00
14:30
15:00
15:30
Portable Reflection in C++26
Dan Katz
Improving application design with std::variant and templates
Robert Schimkowitsch
Software and Safety
Anthony Williams
Why Low Latency Financial Systems Still Favor Determinism
Krishna Kandi
Language compilation at 30 FPS: A tale of performance optimization in C++
Adrien Devresse
The Rise of Agentic Workflows: AI That Understands, Decides & Codes
Bernhard Merkle
How to properly implement Code Quality Gates in your development process
Paul Jansen
Refactoring With C++20/23 Ranges - Cleaner Code, Clearer Algorithms
Aliaksandr Kharlamau
Opening the Black Box: Legally Testing Private Members in C++
Hubert Liberacki
15:30
Refreshments break (30 mins)
16:00
KEYNOTE: Out of Our Minds: What is AI Doing To Us and For Us?
Yvonne Rogers
17:30
18:00
⚡ Lightning Talks
19:30
The ACCU on Sea Conference Dinner
Saturday
20th June 2026
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09:30
Where does constexpr start and where it ends
Hana Dusíková
What Your Allocator Is Doing to Your C++ Program?
Sejal
The Code is Documentation Enough
Tina Ulbrich
High-Throughput Servers in C++: What Actually Scales
Shreyansh Jain
10:30
Refreshments break (30 mins)
11:00
Safety in Numbers
Jason Turner
Contract assertions on virtual functions
Timur Doumler
Microarchitecture: What Lies Beneath
Matt Godbolt
Fast, High-quality Pseudo-random Numbers for Non-cryptographers
Roth Michaels
What We Can Learn From Programming FPGAs
Francis Glassborow
12:30
13:00
14:00
14:30
Lunch break
The ACCU AGM
14:30
Techniques of Compile-time Unit Testing in C++
Braden Ganetsky
The Future of C++ Is Memory Safe
Jon Bauman
Padding, Packing, and Performance: Mastering Memory Alignment in C++
Sarthak Sehgal
When Zero-Cost Abstractions Aren’t Zero-Cost
Steve Sorkin
Separation of Concerns at Zero Cost: Modular Physics in C++20
Jędrzej Michalczyk
15:30
Refreshments break (30 mins)
16:00
Taylor's Keynote
Taylor Cramer