Talks

If you’d like me to speak at your event, please get in touch. Below is a selection of my past public talks (with links to videos):

• Demystifying std::memory_order
  Berlin Audio Developer Meetup 2025
• Contracts for C++
  ACCU 2024, CppCon 2024, MeetingC++ 2024
• Wait-free thread synchronisation with the SeqLock
  ADC 2024
• Contracts, Testing, and the pursuit of well-defined behaviour
  CppNorth 2023 (closing keynote)
• C++ and Safety
  CppOnSea 2023, C++North 2023
• Lightning talk: Into the Lambda-Verse
  C++Now 2023, CppOnSea 2023
• What is Low Latency C++? Part I / Part II
  C++Now 2023, SEGA Dev Day,  using std::cpp Madrid
• Thread synchronisation in real-time audio processing with RCU (Read Copy Update)
  ADC 2022
• How C++23 changes the way we write code
  NDC TechTown 2022, CoreC++ 2022, CppCon 2022 (keynote)
• C++ Lambda Idioms
  C++Russia 2022, C++North 2022, NDC TechTown 2022, CppCon 2022
• A lock-free atomic shared_ptr
  ACCU 2022, C++Now 2022, NDC TechTown 2022, CppCon 2022
• Lightning talk: Direct aggregate initialisation
  CppCon 2021, ACCU 2022, C++Now 2022
• Real-time programming with the C++ Standard Library
  CppCon 2021, ADC 2021, MUC++ December 2021
• Using locks in real-time audio processing, safely
  Audio Programmer Meetup, ADC 2020
• How C++20 changes the way we write code
  C++ Siberia 2020 (opening keynote), CppCon 2020, MeetingC++ 2020, ACCU 2021
• Lightning talk: ISO/IEC 14882
  CppCon 2019
• Type punning in modern C++
  CppCon 2019, C++Russia 2019, Avast C++ Meetup
• C++20: The small things
  CppCon 2019, MeetingC++ 2019, CoreHard 2019 (opening keynote)
• Better CTAD for C++20
  C++Now 2019
• Audio in standard C++
  ACCU 2019, C++Now 2019
• Initialisation in modern C++
  MeetingC++ 2018, CppOnSea 2019, 4Developers 2019, C++Russia 2019, CoreCpp 2019
• CTAD in C++17
  ACCU 2018, CppCon 2018
• Lightning talk: C++20 breaks stuff
  MeetingC++ 2018
• Lightning talk: I can has grammar? (most fun talk I ever gave 🙂 )
  ACCU 2018, CppCon 2018
• Lightning talk: Immediately-invoked lambda expressions in C++ (sorry for the bad audio quality)
  MUC++ April 2018
• C++17, and why it is good for you
  ADC 2017
• Want fast C++? Know your hardware!
  CppCon 2016, MeetingC++ 2016
• C++ in the Audio Industry, Episode II: floating atomics
  JUCE Summit 2015
• C++ in the Audio Industry
  CppCon 2015