Wednesday
Room 1
09:00 - 10:00
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
Keynote: Safety and Security: The Future of C and C++
Safety and security are viewed as an existential threat by the C++ community and "business as usual" by the C community.
This keynote discussed the requirements for developing C and C++ software for safety-critical and security-critical software, approaches to meeting these requirements, and the future of C and C++ in these domains.
Robert Seacord
Robert C. Seacord is the Standardization Lead at Woven by Toyota where he works on the Software Craft. Robert is convener of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 international standardization working group for the C programming language. He is the author of seven books, including Effective C, Second Edition (No Starch Press, 2024), The CERT C Coding Standard, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2014) Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2013), and Java Coding Guidelines: 75 Recommendations for Reliable and Secure Programs (Addison-Wesley, 2014). He has also published more than 50 papers on software security, component-based software engineering, Web-based system design, legacy-system modernization, component repositories and search engines, and user interface design and development. Robert has been teaching secure coding in C and C++ to private industry, academia, and government since 2005. He started programming professionally for IBM in 1982.