Announcing Meeting C++ 2025!

published at 03.04.2025 16:54 by Jens Weller
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This years conference will be held on the 6th - 8th November in Berlin and online!

Last year marked our 10 year anniversary in Berlin! This year its eleven years since Meeting C++ moved from Düsseldorf to Berlin, and Scott Meyers gave a great opening keynote back in 2014. A lot has happend in C++ land since than. But like 10 years ago, C++ is about to unfold the potential of a new standard: C++26 and the age of contemporary C++.

Keynotes at Meeting C++ 2025

James McNellis

Frances Buontempo

I know James McNellis since visiting C++now in 2012, with both of us back then just two attendees budding together for talks about C++. Since then both of us have kept in loose contact and went on various pathways evolving around C++. James went on to work at Microsoft, telling stories about working with code older than him, and later changed to Roblox where he is doing interesting work with C++ once again. He is a great speaker and entertainer - I'm looking very much forward to what he has to say. Last year he was at the conference as a regular attendee (thanks!), but he did give a lightning talk!

Frances Buontempo is also a well known face at Meeting C++ and other conferences, I've met her the first time in 2019, when she keynoted about AI before it was cool with "Can AI replace programmers". And this has been a great keynote, asking interesting and philosophical questions about AI and us as human beings and programmers. She is the editor of the ACCU Overload magazine and authored 3 books on C++ and related topics. Frances first C++ focused book is Learn C++ by Example, and her new book is focused on learning C++, something we're all familiar with.

Tickets

This years tickets can be a bit cheaper than last year. There are two reasons for this, the first reason is that the hotel prices for our contingent has gone down, while it was raised last year (this was bit of a problem for the event in 2024). Still hosting in a vibrant, european city like Berlin is in a central location that is also a 4 star hotel has its price. The other reason is that with more folks joining the conference again, the fix costs get smaller for each share. 

This year we'll be using two ticket stores, Eventbrite for onsite tickets and tito for online tickets. The split is due to online tickets needing reverse-charge support, and only tito has this. Eventbrite is offering better payment terms for you and also Meeting C++.

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