In 2026 the event was hosted in Kongsberg, from Monday September 21 through Thursday September 24. Approximately 365 people participated on the conference this year.

Partners: Cisco Webex; Equinor; EL og IT Forbundet; Ferrous Systems; Green Hills Software; JetBrains; KDAB; Kongsberg; Squarehead

Here is the full agenda for 2026:

Pre-conf workshops (Monday and Tuesday):

• (2 days) Safer C++ with MISRA-C++:2023 and beyond, Peter Sommerlad
• (2 days) Secure Coding in C and C++, Robert Seacord
• (2 days) C++ Best Practices, Jason Turner
• (2 days) C++ Software Design, Klaus Iglberger
• (2 days) QML Architecture & Performance deep-dive, James Turner
• (2 days) Test Driven Development with C++, Venkat Subramaniam
• (2 days) Rust for imperialists, Eivind Bergem

Pre-conf meetup (Tuesday evening 1800-2000)

• Oslo C++ Meetup with Kevlin Henney: Principle Misunderstandings

Wednesday 0900-1000: (Plenary)

• Keynote: C++ starts with cpp, Hana Dusíková

Wednesday 1020-1120: (Parallel sessions)

• C++ ranges - demystifying filter and transform, Ole Bøe
• How Sanitizers Work, Anders Schau Knatten
• Becoming an Engineering Manager Without Losing Your Technical Soul, Paul Williams
• Aggressive trust building with Rust in the age of AI, Mathias Myrland
• Hardware for software engineers, Ignas Bagdonas

Wednesday 1140-1240: (Parallel sessions)

• Creating Composable Callables in Contemporary C++, Björn Fahller
• Are You Smarter Than A Branch Predictor?, Michelle D’souza
• Can a Rust API for QML Be Ergonomic? And “Safe”?, Matthias Rauter
• Qt Multimedia: Building simple public APIs with complex backends, Nils Petter Skålerud
• Part 1: Introducing Carbon’s Memory Safety Model, Chandler Carruth

Wednesday 1340-1440: (Parallel sessions)

• A bird’s eye view of a language server, Joakim Lier
• Iteration in C++: From Regular Loops to Powerful Metaprogramming Idioms, Vitaly Fanaskov
• Writing automated tests in the age of probability, James Bornefelt Westfall
• Introduction to Bare Metal Coding, Olve Maudal
• Part 2: Introducing Carbon’s Memory Safety Model, Chandler Carruth

Wednesday 1500-1600: (Parallel sessions)

• int != safe && int != ℤ, Peter Sommerlad
• Design Patterns - The Most Common Misconceptions (3 of N), Klaus Iglberger
• Same C++, but quicker to the finish line, Daniela Engert
• Practical Security on stm32mp1 Platforms, Vyacheslav Yurkov
• Refactoring Towards Structured Concurrency, Roi Barkan (Slides)

Wednesday 1620-1720: (Parallel sessions)

• The Elements of Programming Style, Kevlin Henney
• When C++ doesn’t mean what it says, Giuseppe D’Angelo
• Windowing systems, and what I learned from adding popup windows to Qt Quick, Oliver Eftevaag
• Prioritizing Pretty-printers, Braden Ganetsky
• Rust for Safety, Espen Albrektsen

Wednesday 1720-2130: (Party, Talk, Quiz)

• NDC Party at Magazinet: Talk by Børge Lund (Cartoonist - Lunch), Cpp Quiz with Anders Knatten

Thursday 0900-1000: (Parallel sessions)

• Learning Graphics Programming with C++, Mathieu Ropert
• How to Port Your C++ Codebase to Modules, Mikhail Svetkin
• Experience writing Root of Trust firmware for automotive SoC in Rust, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
• Thriving in deep water: Building a submerged embedded system from scratch with no experience, Hans-Marius Øverås, Eivind Sunde Eriksen
• Generating Secure C Programs with AI, Robert Seacord

Thursday 1020-1120: (Parallel sessions)

• Mastering MC/DC from first principles, Jørgen Kvalsvik
• Once Upon a Thread, Jana Machutová
• Hardware-Backed Secret Storage on a Rockchip with OP-TEE as a TPM, Ed Watson
• Patterns for Event Driven Systems in Rust, Nuno Mendes
• Postmodern Programming, Tony Van Eerd

Thursday 1140-1240: (Parallel sessions)

• Creating Automated Tests for a gnarly application: Lessons from The Trenches, Venkat Subramaniam
• How to implement C++26 RCU, Denis Yaroshevskiy
• Modernizing Legacy Codebases without Stopping the World, Peter Muldoon
• Another Kind of Bug - The Subtleties of ODR Violations, Kerstin Keller
• Panel: Rust (in production) Without Fear, Victor Ciura, Helge Penne, Jon Gjengset

Thursday 1340-1440: (Parallel sessions)

• sshlogin: securely authenticating to remote Linux systems via a serial or a text-based interface, Ignat Korchagin
• Vampires Begone: A Journey Through the Evolution of Reflection in C++, Alexsandro Thomas
• Introduction to Qt Robotics, Shawn Rutledge
• Allocator-Aware Rust, Victor Ciura
• Modern Polyglot, Composable Programming with the WebAssembly Component Model, Sy Brand

Thursday 1500-1600: (Parallel sessions)

• Build the loop, not the prompt: How the Claude Code team builds autonomous workflows, Daisy Hollman
• Rule of 0,1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10?, Jason Turner
• Bootable applications - fully interactive programs, Michael Odden
• A People’s History of ABI, Nicole Patricia Mazzuca
• Implementing zero-copy (de)serialization in Rust from scratch, Eivind Bergem