2025 Schedule

KEYNOTE: The Next Coding Horizon: Proactive LLMs for Enhanced Productivity

09:00

Anastasia Kazakova

10:30

Mojo: The programming language for the age/all of AI ?

11:00

Bristol 1

The C++ Execution Model

Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

Bristol 2

Bernhard Merkle

Bristol 3

Heaps Don't Lie - Guidelines for Memory Allocation in C++

Mathieu Ropert

Empire

The Road to Agility: Are We There Yet?

Giovanni Asproni

12:30

C23 for uninitiated—modern C idioms for expressive, safe, and performant code

14:00

Bristol 1

Easy senders/receivers

Lucian Radu Teodorescu

Bristol 2

Dawid Zalewski

Bristol 3

Contracts for C++

Timur Doumler

Empire

How to value a story

Allan Kelly

15:30

A Very Small Language Model

16:00

Bristol 1

Asynchronous C++

Dietmar Kühl

Bristol 2

Jez Higgins

Bristol 3

Safe and Readable Code: Monadic Operations in C++23

Robert Schimkowitsch

Empire

Regain Benefits from Agile Software Development

Jutta Eckstein

Optimizing for value: fight failure demand with bottlenecks

Willem van Den Ende

17:30

18:00

⚡ Lightning Talks

19:00

Welcome Reception, sponsored by Mosaic Financial Markets

Mosaic Financial Markets

Wednesday 2nd April 2025

Main conference

Bristol 1

Bristol 2

Bristol 3

Empire

08:00

KEYNOTE: How Generative Metaprogramming Changes the Way We Design Libraries

09:00

Daisy Hollman

10:30

C++ Coroutines - Gods from the Machine

11:00

Bristol 1

Phil Nash

Bristol 2

Bazel

Marcus Boerger

Bristol 3

Software Engineering Completeness :

Peter Muldoon

Empire

Agility ≠ Speed

Kevlin Henney

12:30

If Writing Coroutines Goes Over My Head, Where Do I Even Begin with Debugging?

14:00

Bristol 1

André Brand

Bristol 2

C++ ♥ Python

Alex Dathskovsky

Bristol 3

Changing /std:c++14 to /std:c++20 – How hard could it be?

Keith Stockdale

Empire

Continuous Integration (CI) for large scale package-based C, C++ projects with Conan2

Diego Rodriguez-Losada

15:30

Deciphering C++ Coroutines - Mastering Asynchronous Control Flow

16:00

Bristol 1

Andreas Weis

Bristol 2

New voices

Gail Ollis

Bristol 3

How old am I in Seconds and other insights from the C++ chrono library

Nicolai M. Josuttis

Empire

Crafting robust and performant schedulers with TDD

Matthew Dodkins

17:30

18:00

⚡ Lightning Talks

Thursday 3rd April 2025

Main conference

Bristol 1

Bristol 2

Bristol 3

Empire

08:00

KEYNOTE: C++ Exceptions are Code Compression

09:00

Khalil Estell

10:30

The 10 Essential Features for the Future of C++ Libraries

11:00

Bristol 1

Mateusz Pusz

Bristol 2

An Introduction To Go

Dom Davis

Bristol 3

/ Error Handling Omitted /

Roger Orr

Empire

Building a career off-road

Sherry Sontag

Daniel Kiss

Cal Pratt

Callum Piper

12:30

Alex Stepanov, Generic Programming, and the STL

13:00

Bristol 1

Bristol 2

Bristol 3

Empire

ACCU AGM

14:00

Bristol 1

Jon Kalb

Bristol 2

An introduction to reinforcement learning: Snake your way out of a paper bag

Frances Buontempo

Bristol 3

Mistakes With Data Made During Game Development

Dominik Grabiec

Getting Started with Senders and Receivers

James Pascoe

Rust: Cargo Cult?

Victor Ciura

Shifting Left, Shifting Right

Patrick Martin

Empire

Using Reflection to Generate C++ Python Bindings

Callum Piper

Awesome API Design

Anders Sundman

So you think you can lead a team?

Paul Grenyer

Race conditions: practical tools and techniques for testing, preventing, and debugging.

Greg Law

15:30

Dynamic memory allocation challenges in safety critical systems

16:00

Bristol 1

Xavier Bonaventura

Bristol 2

Puzzling C#

Steve Love

Bristol 3

Dangerous Optimizations

Robert C. Seacord

Empire

Stars aligned and software development adrift: why can we predict planets but not deadlines?

Luca Minudel

17:30

17:45

⚡ Lightning Talks

19:45

The ACCU Conference Dinner

Friday 4th April 2025

Main conference

Bristol 1

Bristol 2

Bristol 3

Empire

09:00

Move Slow and Break Things

09:30

Bristol 1

Alisdair Meredith

Bristol 2

Duck-Tape Chronicles: Rust C++ Interop

Victor Ciura

Bristol 3

New (and Old) Standard Library Containers: How to Choose the Right Container in C++26 and Beyond

Alan Talbot

Empire

Testing, Preconditions, Coverage and Templates in Safety-Critical C++ Code

Anthony Williams

11:00

Optimising Data Building In Game Development

11:30

Bristol 1

Our Other C++ Interfaces

Bret Brown

Bristol 2

TBA

Bristol 3

Dominik Grabiec

Empire

Eventually Deliver Better Presentations

Jack Simms

13:00

consteval All The Things?

14:30

Bristol 1

Jason Turner

Bristol 2

The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages

Kevlin Henney

Bristol 3

Functional Programming in C++

Jonathan Müller

Empire

What C++ Needs to be Safe

John Lakos

16:00