ACCU 2018 Schedule

10:00

C++17 in Practice

Nicolai Josuttis

100 baby steps away from spaghetti code

Arne Mertz

Python/C++ Integration with pybind11

Austin Bingham

Concurrency without fear: Rust

Florian Gilcher

09:30

Diversity & Inclusivity in Tech

Gen Ashley
(video)

10:30

Break

11:00

Designing multithreaded code for scalability

Anthony Williams
(slides)

Runtime Polymorphism: Back to the Basics

Louis Dionne
(video)

Fighting the controls: tragedy and madness for pilots and programmers

Daniele Procida

Swift Driven Development

Phil Nash
(video)

Coroutines explained

Dmitry Kandalov

12:30

Lunch

13:00

WIBU Workshop, Conservatory/ACCU Lounge

13:45

14:00

Nothing is better than copy or move

Roger Orr
(slides) / (video)

105 STL Algorithms in Less Than an Hour

Jonathan Boccara
(video)

Playing with Projections

Michel Grootjans

Chris and Jez’s Old Skool Artisan Software Workshop

Jez Higgins
Chris Oldwood

Scheme Lisp: Feel the Cool

Andy Balaam
(slides) / (video)

15:30

Break

16:00

I just wanted to point to something!

Jonathan Müller
(video)

C++ Templates Revised

Nicolai Josuttis
(video)

How to avoid bottlenecks when converting serial code to multithreaded

Wojciech Basalaj
Richard Corden
(slides)

A Quantum Data Structure For Classical Computers

Charley Bay
(video)

Three years of Rust - A look around

Florian Gilcher
(video)

17:30

Break

18:00

Lightning Talks (1 hour, Bristol Suite)
(slides)

19:00

Welcome Reception

09:30

Kotlin/Native – Embracing existing ecosystems

Hadi Hariri
(video)

10:30

Break

11:00

Class Template Argument Deduction in C++17

Timur Doumler
(video)

Finally Executors for C++

Detlef Vollmann
(video)

How not to lead a team of software professionals

Arjan van Leeuwen

C++17 - The Best Features

Nicolai Josuttis
(video)


How Python Wins New Friends

Steve Holden
(slides) / (video)


The Badlands of C++: Professional Game Development

Valentin Galea
(video)


Would 'reserve'/'upgrade'/'downgrade' Methods Improve 'std::shared_mutex'?

Jeffrey Mendelsohn
(video)

Higher order functions for the rest of us.

Björn Fahller
(slides)


Bootstrapping a Local C++ User Group

Victor Ciura
(slides)


Building a Tech Community in the East from (almost) Nothing

Paul Grenyer
(video)

12:30

Lunch

13:00

Code Club Workshop, Conservatory/ACCU Lounge

13:45

14:00

C++ Modules and Large-Scale Development

John Lakos
(video)

Concept Based Testing

Dietmar Kühl
(video)

Simply the Best: Optimising with an Evolutionary Computing Framework

Frances Buontempo
Christopher Simons
(slides)

Mocking Framworks considered, harmful?!

Peter Sommerlad
(slides) / (video)

Read and write considered harmful

Hubert Matthews
(slides) / (video)

15:30

Break

16:00

Procedural Programming: It’s Back? It Never Went Away

Kevlin Henney
(slides) / (video)

Parallel Design Patterns and Stream Parallelism

J. Daniel Garcia
(slides) / (video)

C++ Countdown Pub Quiz

Jon Jagger

Alchemical Code Rejuvenation

Uberto Barbini
(video)

Common Webapp Vulnerabilities and What to Do About Them

Eoin Woods
(slides) / (video)

17:30

Break

18:00

Lightning Talks (1 hour, Empire)
(slides)

19:30

Conference Dinner (19:30 for drinks, 20:00 service)

09:30

The Shape of a Program

Lisa Lippincott
(slides) / (video)

10:30

Break

11:00

Linux User/Kernel ABI: the often surprising realities of how C and C++ programs really talk to the OS

Greg Law
(video)

C++ API & ABI versioning

Mathieu Ropert
(slides) / (video)

Simplicity: not just for beginners

Kate Gregory
(slides) / (video)

The Incredible Shrinking Standard

Alisdair Meredith
(video)

Graphs: From Novice to Graphanista

Dom Davis
(slides)

12:30

Lunch

13:00

ACCU – The View From The Conference, Conservatory/ACCU Lounge

13:45

14:00

C++ Today: The Beast is Back

Jon Kalb
(video)

Debug C++ Without Running

Anastasia Kazakova
(slides) / (video)

Hacker’s guide to Web Assembly

Vigneshwer Dhinakaran
(video)


The ongoing design and evolution of cyber-dojo

Jon Jagger
(video)


If You’re Happy and You Know It (Inside the Mind of a Developer)

Dom Davis
(slides) / (video)


Tales of C, the 6502 and the BBC (with added python)

Benjamin Misell
(slides) / (video)

What’s new about fake news?

Gail Ollis
(video)


Can I change my organisation?

Felix Petriconi
(slides) / (video)


The Clacks in Discworld and Roundworld

Jim Hague
(video)


What are hash trees and why you should care

Ahto Truu
(slides)

Grease: A Message-Passing Approach to Protocol Stacks in Rust

Jonathan 'theJPster' Pallant
(slides)

15:30

Break

16:00

HCC: Bringing Modern C++ to a GPU Near You

Alex Voicu

Grill the C++ Committee

Jon Kalb
(video)

Cryptography for Programmers

Daniel James
(video)

The fantastic four coding patterns of Continuous Delivery

Luca Minudel
(video)

Code Reviews: Why, What and How

Arne Mertz

17:30

Break

18:00

Lightning Talks (1 hour, Bristol Suite)
(slides)

19:00

Bloomberg Event

09:30

These 10 tricks that only library implementors know!

Marshall Clow
Jonathan Wakely
(slides) / (video)

There Is A Better Future

Felix Petriconi+ (slides) / (video)

"Multi-Coring" and "Non-Blocking" instead of "Multi-Threading", or using (Re)Actors to build Scalable Interactive Distributed Systems

Sergey Ignatchenko

Creating an Incremental Architecture for your System

Giovanni Asproni
(slides) / (video)

TBC

11:00

Break

11:30

The mighty challenge of modelling geopolitical behaviour in Total War: how AI can deliver entertainment.

Guy Davidson
Duygu Cakmak
(slides) / (video)

Zero-allocation & no type erasure futures

Vittorio Romeo
(slides) / (video)

Monolithic Delivery

Chris Oldwood
(video)

Hacker’s guide to Rust Programming

Vigneshwer Dhinakaran
(video)

Scripting Git

CB Bailey
(slides)

13:00

Lunch

13:30

ACCU AGM, Empire

14:15

14:30

Heterogeneous Programming in C++ today

Michael Wong
(video)

Type safe C++ – LOL! :-)

Björn Fahller
(slides) / (video)

Building Modern Native Applications with Gradle

Schalk Cronjé
(video)

Turtles! Hill climbing! Hammers! Paper bags!

Frances Buontempo
(slides) / (video)

How to be polite to unicorns

Odin Holmes

16:00

Break

16:30

Software development – learning to walk again

Seb Rose
(slides) / (video)

17:30

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