C++Fall 26
Programme

Two days, three tracks

4 Keynotes · 24 Talks · 6 Lightning Sessions2 Panels · Core Language · Performance · Tooling
Day 01

Saturday, 19 September 2026

8:30 amRegistration & Morning Coffee30 min
9:00 am
Keynote

Opening Remarks

Dr. Leah Ramirez — Programme Chair, FlowersML_conf
9:20 am
Keynote

Beyond the Standard: Modern C++ Directions for the Next Decade

Prof. Bernard Okafor — Professor of Computational Learning, Columbia University
10:05 amShort Break10 min
Talk

Toward Zero-Overhead Reflection: A Compile-Time Introspection Framework

Dr. Jason Lee
Research Scientist, Redwood Research Institute
Talk

Shipping C++20 Modules in Legacy Codebases: A Postmortem After 18 Months in Production

Samantha Patel
Staff Engineer, Lumen AI
Talk

Dark Patterns in Package Managers: Who Audits vcpkg Dependencies?

Malik Mensah
Policy Researcher, AI Governance Lab
Talk

Memory Model Pitfalls: Quantifying the Cost of “Relaxed” Atomics

Dr. Silvia Rossi
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT CSAIL
Talk

Continuous Benchmarking You Can Trust: Building a Performance Baseline for 100M LOC

Jonathan Kim
Head of ML Evaluation, Kestrel Labs
Talk

Green Builds: Carbon-Aware Compilation Strategies for Large C++ Projects

Dr. Emma Park
Researcher, Climate & Computing Initiative
Lightning

Lightning Talks - Core Language Track

  • constexpr All the Things: Compile-Time Regex in Real Workloads
    Michael Chen
  • Chronicles of Coroutines: When Await Isn’t Free
    Priyanka Das
  • Undefined Behavior Sanitizers: New Tricks for Old Code
    Dr. Tomas Alvarez
Lightning

Lightning Talks - Performance Track

  • Linker Order Landmines: Debugging ODR Violations in Production
    Grace Liu
  • ABI Stability Across Compilers: A Horror Story
    Daniel Gomez
  • Migrating from Boost::Format to std::format: Pain and Profit
    Maya Kaur
Lightning

Lightning Talks - Tooling Track

  • License Hell: When GPL Meets Proprietary Templates
    Dr. Lucia Bianchi
  • Diversity in C++ Committees: Numbers and Narratives
    Kevin O'Neil
  • On-Call with UB: Post-Mortem Culture in Systems Teams
    Sofia Nordin
12:00 pmLunch75 min
1:15 pm
Keynote

Beyond O(1): Algorithmic Design Patterns for Real-Time Systems in C++

Angela Rivera — Director of Applied Research, Archipelago AI
Talk

The Cost of std::vector Growth: Quantitative Analysis in Hot Loops

Dr. Marcus Evans
Research Fellow, DeepMind Alumni Consortium
Talk

Latency Spikes and Text Logging: Lessons from 10k TPS Trading Systems

Lauren Schneider
Principal Engineer, Velox Systems
Talk

Right to Repair Meets Firmware: Legal Views on Locked-Down Toolchains

Dr. Aisha Rahman
Privacy Engineer, Fortis ML
Talk

Exascale Parallelism with std::execution: Early Results from Aurora

Noah Bekele
PhD Candidate, Inria / École Polytechnique
Talk

No-Footgun Smart Pointers: A Practitioner’s Honest Assessment

Viktor Petrov
Senior ML Engineer, Helix Data
Talk

Bias in Branch Predictors: Security Implications for C++ JITs

Dr. Heidi Sørensen
Researcher, Algorithmic Equity Group
3:10 pmAfternoon Break25 min
3:35 pm
Panel

Is the UB-Fear Overstated? Measuring Real-World Impact on Safety-Critical Code

Dr. Natalie Brooks · ModeratorProf. David IbehDr. Lila AhmedMarcus ValdezCaroline Dubois
4:35 pm
Keynote

Day One Close & Community Announcements

Dr. Brian Choi — Programme Chair
5:00 pmEvening Reception - Foyer & Rooftop Terrace90 min
Day 02

Sunday, 20 September 2026

8:45 amMorning Coffee15 min
9:00 am
Keynote

Compile-Time Reasoning Without Shortcuts: Designing Concepts That Fail Gracefully

Dr. Hannah McAllister — Senior Scientist, Northlight Research
9:45 amShort Break10 min
Talk

Temporal Memory Safety: Detecting Use-After-Free in Production Binaries

Dr. Amir Khan
Research Scientist, Alignment Studies Lab
Talk

Multi-Platform Build Pipelines: The Failure Modes Nobody Blogs About

Ken Tanaka
Principal Engineer, Iris AI
Talk

Toolchain Transparency Reports: What They Should Contain and Why They Don’t

Astrid Larsen
Policy Analyst, Open Models Foundation
Talk

Exceptions Are Not Control Flow: A Philosophical and Empirical Challenge

Prof. Julia Kostova
Professor of Cognitive Science & AI, NYU
Talk

Observability for C++ Services: Tracing What Actually Matters

Sebastian Ortega
Platform Lead, Meridian Engineering
Talk

Labor Behind the Lint: The Hidden Costs of Style Guides

Dr. Zainab Musa
Researcher, Digital Labor Studies, Cornell
Talk

Speculative Devirtualization at the Edge: Accuracy, Latency, and the Trade-Offs

Tanveer Shah
Research Engineer, Meridian Labs
Talk

Compile-Time, Run-Time, or Code-Gen: A Framework for Actually Deciding

Bridget Weiss
Head of AI Products, Crestline Software
Talk

Concentration Risk in Compiler Infrastructure: What Happens When Two Vendors Go Down

Dr. Felix Mwangi
Tech Economist, Future of Markets Institute
11:40 amLunch80 min
1:00 pm
Keynote

The Quiet Infrastructure: Who Owns the Compilers That Shape What Gets Built

Prof. Chong Park — Associate Professor, Columbia SIPA
Talk

Measuring Calibration in Static Analyzers Under Real-World Codebases

Dr. Pablo Serrano
Research Scientist, Vela AI Research
Talk

Cost-Optimal Builds: A Practical Guide to Caching, Sharding, and Incremental Linking

Mei Chan
Infrastructure Lead, Halcyon Cloud
Talk

Meaningful Code Review: What It Requires in Practice

Dr. Rachel Mensah
Director, Responsible Systems Lab
Talk

Towards Formal Verification of Lock-Free Data Structures

Dr. Artem Volkov
Research Fellow, Formal ML Group, ETH Zürich
Talk

The Undefined Behavior Problem Is Not Solved: A Survey of What Works and What Doesn’t

Yosef Azulay
Senior Security Researcher, Bastion AI
Talk

Child Safety and Embedded Systems: Gaps in Current Practice

Dr. Claire Reid
Researcher, Trust & Safety, Carnegie Mellon
2:55 pmAfternoon Break20 min
3:15 pm
Panel

Where Is C++ Going? A Disagreement About the Next Five Years

Prof. Olivia Grant · ModeratorDr. Eric WuProf. Maria DelgadoDr. Deepak MehtaGrace ZhuThomas Winkler
4:15 pm
Keynote

Closing Keynote: Staying Serious in a Template-Metaprogramming Hype Cycle

Dr. Elise Nguyen — Programme Chair, FlowersML_conf
4:50 pmConference Close10 min