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Valentin Galea

Splash Damage
Technical Lead
London, England
Websitehttps://splashdamage.com/contact/
Valentin Galea is a professional video game developer based in London, UK. He assisted with or oversaw development of award-winning video game franchises like "Gears of War" and "Halo: The Master Chief Collection". C++ enthusiast and evangelist, focused on systems, graphics and engine programming. He has 12+ years worth of experience, with past work ranging from MMO projects to mobile and handheld games. When he's not geeking out on C++ or games, he collects vinyl records.

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Monday, September 24
 

09:00 PDT

Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here) Breckenridge Hall (1st Floor)Bjarne Stroustrup

11:00 PDT

The C++ Execution Model Breckenridge Hall (1st Floor)Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

14:00 PDT

C++ Function Templates: How Do They Really Work? Steamboat (403)Walter E Brown

15:15 PDT

The Nightmare of Initialization in C++ Steamboat (403)Nicolai Josuttis How C++ Debuggers Work Keystone (404)Simon Brand

16:45 PDT

Unwinding the Stack: Exploring How C++ Exceptions Work on Windows Copper Mountain Theater (2nd Floor)James McNellis
 
Tuesday, September 25
 

09:00 PDT

Source Instrumentation for Monitoring C++ in Production Aspen Highlands Hall (1st Floor)Steven Simpson

12:05 PDT

Book Signing: Bjarne Stroustrup Book StoreBjarne Stroustrup

12:30 PDT

CppCon Program Committee Keystone (404)Bryce Adelstein Lelbach • Jon Kalb

14:00 PDT

Speaker Portraits |Fourth Floor BalconyZoetica Ebb Woes of Scope Guards and Unique Resource - 5+ years in the making Winter Park (406)Peter Sommerlad

15:15 PDT

RVO is Harder than it Looks: the story of -Wreturn-std-move Breckenridge Hall (1st Floor)Arthur O'Dwyer

15:50 PDT

Teaching Old Compilers New Tricks: Transpiling C++17 to C++11 Steamboat (403)Tony Wasserka

16:45 PDT

Frozen data structures in C++14 Copper Mountain Theater (2nd Floor)Serge Guelton

20:30 PDT

Lightning Talks Copper Mountain Theater (2nd Floor)Michael Caisse
 
Wednesday, September 26
 

09:00 PDT

Sane and Safe C++ Classes Breckenridge Hall (1st Floor)Peter Sommerlad

14:00 PDT

Understanding Optimizers: Helping the Compiler Help You Breckenridge Hall (1st Floor)Nir Friedman

15:15 PDT

To Kill a Mocking Framework: Tools and Techniques for Testing Callbacks Using Standard C++ Keystone (404)Alastair Rankine

15:50 PDT

Value Semantics: Fast, Safe, and Correct by Default Breckenridge Hall (1st Floor)Nicole Mazzuca

16:45 PDT

Accelerating Applications on a GPU with CUDA C++ Keystone (404)Michael Gopshtein

20:30 PDT

Lightning Talks Copper Mountain Theater (2nd Floor)
 
Thursday, September 27
 

09:00 PDT

Using Template Magic to Automatically Generate Hybrid CPU/GPU-Code Telluride (407)Elmar Westphal,

14:00 PDT

Building a C++ Reflection System in One Weekend Using Clang and LLVM Keystone (404)Arvid Gerstmann

15:15 PDT

Co- and Contra-: Adding a Little Variance Keystone (404)Michał Dominiak

15:50 PDT

Dealing with aliasing using contracts Copper Mountain Theater (2nd Floor)Gábor Horváth

16:00 PDT

Speaker Portraits |Fourth Floor BalconyZoetica Ebb

16:45 PDT

Rapid Prototyping of Graphics Shaders in Modern C++ Winter Park (406)Valentin Galea

18:30 PDT

Meet the Speakers Dinner Keystone (404)
 
Friday, September 28
 

09:00 PDT

Interfaces matter: High Performance and Heap Allocated Containers Aspen Highlands Hall (1st Floor)John Woolverton

10:30 PDT

The Bits Between the Bits: How We Get to main() Breckenridge Hall (1st Floor)Matt Godbolt

13:30 PDT

Standard Library Compatibility Guidelines Aspen Highlands Hall (1st Floor)Titus Winters Clangd: architecture of a scalable C++ language server Steamboat (403)Ilya Biryukov

14:45 PDT

Spectre: Secrets, Side-Channels, Sandboxes, and Security Breckenridge Hall (1st Floor)Chandler Carruth