Name: NDC TechTown 2026
Start: 2026-09-21
End: 2026-09-24
Location: NDC TechTown

Alexsandro Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer, and a member of the ISO C++ Standard Committee. He specializes in C++ API development, build systems, and developer tooling. His interests include heterogeneous computing, compiler technology, and languages.

Anders started programming in Turbo Pascal in 1995, and has been programming professionally in various languages since 2001. He's currently a staff software engineer and head of the C/C++ guild at Squarehead, where he works on acoustic counter-drone tech, mostly in C++.

He's also the author of the book C++ Brain Teasers, http://cppquiz.org, and https://blog.knatten.org, an organizer of Oslo C++ Users Group, and in the agenda committee for NDC TechTown.

Björn is a senior software developer at Net Insight, where he is keen on improving the skills of the teams he works in, by learning, and by sharing knowledge. Björn has worked full time with software development since 1994, mostly for networking products, and primarily in C++. He is the creator of the popular open source C++ libraries, Trompeloeil for mocking, and strong_type for type safety. 

Braden Ganetsky graduated from the University of Manitoba with a degree in mechanical engineering, fueled by his passion for mechanical puzzles. During his final year of school, when all classes and activities were remote, he discovered C++ and has been hooked ever since. He interned as a C++ developer, which turned into a full time job, completing a successful pivot of his career. Now he spend his nights working on fun projects like parser combinators, and getting involved in the wider community. Braden leads the Winnipeg C++ Developers local user group, and sits on the ISO C++ Committee as the Secretary.

Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish Internet protocol expert and developer who has participated in and worked with Open Source for thirty years. Perhaps most known for being the founder and lead developer of the curl project, one of the world's most widely used software components. He participates in protocol development within the IETF and has authored books on curl, Open Source, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and is a frequent public speaker. Daniel is the president of the European Open Source Academy and a two times gold medal receiver for his Open Source work. Employed by wolfSSL.

Daniela has a degree in electrical engineering and has been working for more than 30 years in small innovative companies in the field of software and hardware development. She has spent her youth with exploring the very first microprocessors since the late 70's, and has been creating software professionally for over 40 years now. After a long time using many different programming languages, C++ has now been the exclusive workhorse throughout the last two decades. With great pleasure Daniela is now also a member of the ISO C++ committee. For the better part of her career, the domain was applied digital signal processing (medicine, metrology, reconnaissance), but during the last decade the focus shifted onto special engineering in the field of industrial non-destructive testing of semi-finished and finished steel products using ultrasound. Besides that, she loves to relax with hard metal and soft cheese, hot curries and cool jazz.

Denis Yaroshevskiy is a performance engineer at meta and a semi-active member of the C++ community. He has a number of contributions in the very foundational libraries, such as libc++, folly, Chromium/base. Denis has a keen interest in SIMD and maintains algorithms in eve SIMD library.

Ed Watson is an Embedded Linux Engineer working in Gothenburg, Sweden for Northern.tech (HQ in Oslo). He worked as a Senior Software Engineer developing 3D cell and organ printers and has a doctoral background in 3D and systems mathematical modelling. Ed specialises in embedded Linux, OTA device management, Yocto and systems architecture. He is known as a "fixer of things".

Eivind Begem is an embedded software developer working at Inventas, where he is the annoying guy at the office who never stops talking about Rust.

I am an electronics engineer at Ocean Access, working at the intersection of control theory, hydraulics, firmware and electronics.

Espen is a developer and architect with over 25 years of experience. He has worked on everything from embedded systems, electronics and games to large scale cloud applications. He is as full-stack as they come. Espen started coding at age six on a C64, and has been cranking out software ever since. 

He served as the principal architect, tech lead and lead security 
engineer on the compensation scheme for Covid-19 suffering 
businesses released by the Norwegian government. 

Espen was the Senior VP of Technology Exploration for DNB in San Fransisco and is currently doing technology and security research in DNB NewTechLab.

- 15 years as a contractor
- Developed a safety certified wireless, battery operated gas sensor
- Co-founded Sonair in 2022, launched the world's first safety certified 3D ultrasonic sensor for robots.

Senior Software Engineer at KDAB, Giuseppe has been using C++ for over 25 years. He is a long-time contributor to Qt, and an Approver in the Qt Project. His contributions in Qt range from containers and regular expressions to GUI, Widgets, and 3D. Giuseppe is also a member of the C++ committee, where he tries to make things simpler for the ordinary developer.

Hana is staff software engineer in Woven by Toyota. She is known for the CTRE library (Compile Time Regular Expressions). She also chair SG7 "study group for reflection" and co-chair EWG (Evolution Working Group)  in the WG21 (the ISO C++ standardisation committee) where she represents Czechia national body. 

I am Technical Lead for Embedded Systems and Data Platform at Ocean Access, a Trondheim-based startup building autonomous profiling buoys. I work across firmware, hardware, and on our data platform, often in the same week. I am passionate about how small teams can ship reliable systems with limited resources.

Helge has  worked professionally with C++ since the early 1990s, and has also developed SW using other languages like C#, Java and Rust.
He has worked mostly in the embedded space, and has developed SW for autonomous submarines, control systems,  radars, data recorders, airborne systems, and various other things.
He currently works at Thales Norway where he is a SW developer and architect, and also tinkers a little with process and methodology.

A network engineer with substantial clue in software and hardware engineering. Dealing with low latency and high throughput network systems. Able to maintain discussion on topics of BGP, Verilog, and C++, had seen X.25, Cisco CGS, and X.25 on Cisco CGS in real life.

James has been working for over 20 years in software and hardware development. He has worked with test automation since 2008 and has gradually switched from a successful developer and architect role over to an experienced test automation specialist role. James focuses on how automatic end-to-end testing can bring together all the participants in an agile team and deliver value early in the requirements gathering and active development stages, long before the software is close to being finished. When not giving Neat’s video-conference solutions strange dreams, James enjoys the Norwegian outdoors, especially when skiing and flyfishing.

James Turner has been working with C++, OpenGL and computer graphics for thirty years, including work on online video platforms, industrial 3D systems and C++ performance. For the past fifteen years he's worked at KDAB as a consultant and trainer, working Qt, QML, C++, macOS / iOS and most recently Rust. He is a lead developer on FlightGear, the open-source flight-simulator.

Jana is a software engineer at Gen Digital and a member of the Czech National Body to WG21 (the ISO C++ committee), where she mainly follows SG1 and concurrency-related topics. Earlier in her career, she worked in game development on titles such as Top Spin 4, Mafia II, Carrier Command, and DayZ. These days, she’s trying to give talks that make the sometimes scary world of concurrency and parallelism more approachable.

Jason has 2 decades of C++ experience and is a regular conference speaker, developer, and trainer. He has been publishing weekly C++ videos on his YouTube channel, C++ Weekly, since 2016.

Joakim Lier is a Senior Embedded Consultant and learning & development lead at Consid. Programming languages and tools has always been a passion, since the early days of university, so you'll usually find him tinkering on something related to a language during his free time.

Jon is a Principal Engineer at Helsing where he develops safety-critical defense systems in Rust; he's the author of the intermedia Rust book "Rust for Rustaceans"; and he's an avid Rust educator with over 200 hours of tutorials and live coding videos on YouTube. Before Helsing, Jon maintained the Rust build infrastructure at AWS, and in his spare time he maintains a number of open-source tools and libraries written in Rust. He has a PhD from the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group at MIT, where he built a new database engine from scratch , which today continues in the form of the start-up "ReadySet".

Jørgen is a programmer and has mainly been writing free software in his career - lately targeting gcc. He left the energy industry for work on compiler toolchains and build systems in Japan, before returning to his native Norway where he is currently programmer & director at patch. Now he solves hard and interesting problems where he can find them, does bespoke programming as well as teaching, training, and consulting. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from NTNU.

Kerstin Keller is a senior software engineer, working at Aumovio, with over a decade of experience in the Automotive industry.

She focusses on build systems and dependency management, and cares deeply about clean code practices.

Kevlin is an independent consultant, trainer, speaker and writer. His development interests and work with companies covers programming, practice and people. He is a contributor to the Modern Software Engineering YouTube channel. Kevlin is also co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know and former columnist for a number of magazines and sites.

Klaus Iglberger is a freelancing C++ trainer and consultant. He has finished his PhD in computer science in 2010 and since then is focused on large-scale C++ software design. He shares his experience in popular advanced C++ courses around the world (mainly in Germany, but also the EU and US). Additionally, he is the initiator and lead designer of the Blaze C++ math library (https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze/src/master/) and an organizer of the Munich C++ user group (https://www.meetup.com/MUCplusplus/).

Lars has 4 years of experience in multimedia-related C++ development at Qt Group, alongside 13 years of experience as a professional musician. He holds a master's degree in popular music from the University of Agder and a bachelor's degree in informatics from the University of Oslo.

I sporadically create Rust content for YouTube. I typically work with WASM/Web technology, but dabble in low level things like DPDK when I feel particularly geeky.

When I'm not doing Rust stuff, I typically forge knives in my smithy, or play guitar.

French C++ consultant and trainer with a passion for game development and performance. Past speaker at CppCon, Meeting C++, ACCU and code::dive. Used to run the Paris C++ User Group. Currently lives in Sweden. Still thinks your build should be destroyed.

Matthias Rauter is a Software Engineer at the Qt Company, leading the Core & Network team in Oslo. He has a background in computational physics, where he spent years simulating natural hazards with C++. He now channels that experience into building the Qt framework. Matthias speaks four languages, which still wasn't enough to bridge C++ and Rust.

I'm a Norwegian developer who seeks to reduce the amount we rely on factors outside of our control. My professional experience spans from web development to real time safety critical systems, having worked for private and public companies in the domains of maritime, defence and public services.

Michelle Fae D'Souza is a software engineer at Bloomberg, where she develops systems for the company's data license solution, delivering trading and financial data to firms worldwide. She has also worked on real-time, low-level production systems. An active member of Bloomberg's C++ Guild, she also serves as a Technical Rep within the firm.
Michelle earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Davis Scholar and President of the Computer Science Honors Society. She regularly speaks about C++, performance, and systems-level topics.


I have been designing and developing software developer for the last 12 years which I spend working on many different projects and various platforms with and without operating system. I enjoy analyzing code to understand how it works and identify areas for improvement. Also I like to optimize the development process, from streamlining workflows to improving team communication and resolving bottlenecks.

Main areas of interest are libraries, framework, architecture, build systems, package management and modern programming languages.

Nicole has worked on the problems of build systems and dependency management since she did her first internship on the vcpkg team at Microsoft in 2019. She continued her work on vcpkg, bringing registries and manifests to the tool (with help from the rest of the team). After a short stint on the Microsoft standard library team, she moved to Norway and has started work again on build systems and dependency management for reMarkable.

My name is Nils Petter Skålerud. I hold a Bachelor of Programming degree, issued by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I've been working as a Software Engineer within The Qt Group for 2 years, primarily focused on development of the Qt Multimedia submodule.

Nuno is a Software Engineer from Portugal, switching from field to field he currently works at AutoStore in Oslo developing high throughput event based systems.

Ole Bøe is a senior software developer at reMarkable with a keen interest in the C++ language.

He has been a professional C++ developer since before the language was standardized and is old enough to have discovered and fixed real y2k bugs in Borland's C++ libraries.

Oliver is a tech enthusiast and a Senior Software Engineer at the Qt Company. He maintains Qt Quick Dialogs and contributes across the stack, focusing on Qt’s UI infrastructure.

He’s an avid learner who enjoys digging into how complex systems work across abstraction layers.

Olve Maudal is based just outside of Oslo and he works for Equinor. He loves to write code, but he is just as interested in how software is developed as what it actually does. Main interests are embedded systems, C, C++, Python, TDD, secure coding, software architecture and machine learning. www.olvemaudal.com

Paul co-founded the London Engineering Department at Bloomberg, and is part of the leadership team that has seen the local engineering group grow to over 1600 developers over the last 25 years. He, his team, and peers designed and built core components of the Bloomberg Professional Service, aka the Bloomberg Terminal, including Launchpad, the multi-screen real-time financial data display, and Instant Bloomberg ("IB"), the finance industry's ubiquitous secure instant messaging system. His focus continues to be near-real-time display and data-processing systems, involving development and deep analysis of C++ frameworks and interactions with managed JavaScript environments.

Peter Sommerlad is an independent trainer and consultant for modern and safe C++ and software engineering. Before the pandemic, he was professor and director of IFS Institute for Software at FHO/HSR Rapperswil, Switzerland. Peter is co-author of the books POSA Vol.1 and Security Patterns and contributed to "97 things every programmer should know". His goal is to make software simpler and safer and help programmers getting there. Peter is a member of MISRA-C++, Hillside, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and the ISO WG21 "C++" and WG23 "vulnerabilities" standardization committee. 

Pete Muldoon has been using C++ since 1991. Pete has worked in Ireland, England and the USA and is currently employed by Bloomberg. A consultant for over 20 years prior to joining Bloomberg, Peter has worked on a broad range of projects and code bases in a large number of companies both tech and finance. Such broad exposure has, over time, shown what works and what doesn't for large scale engineering projects. He's a proponent of applied engineering principles, elegant solutions and expressive code.

Ramakrishnan (Ramki) is a long time programmer from Bangalore, India and has worked on everything from transistors to bare metal software to backend server developoment. He is a programming language enthusiast. In his free time, he plays with amateur radio (callsign VU2JXN) and participates in morse code contests.

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. 

Professional software developer and architect since 2000, Roi's main focus throughout his career was on high performance and distributed systems, implementing complex and innovative algorithms. Roi is the SVP technologies of Istra Research, where he helps creating low latency financial systems. Prior to working for Istra Research, Roi spent 12 years in software development, architecture and management in the IT Security field. Roi received his B.A in Computer Science with high honors from the Technion in Israel, and his executive MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Shawn has a wide variety of software and embedded experience, has been developing with Qt since 2004, working at Qt since 2011, and has been the maintainer of Qt Quick and Qt PDF for a few years.  He also has a good number of geeky hobbies and open-source projects that take up much of his spare time.

Sy Brand is an expert in debugger technologies and works on Web Assembly tooling at Fastly. Sy has over a decade in developer tooling and has worked on profilers, compilers, language runtimes, standard libraries, and, of course, debuggers. They’ve also contributed to the standards for C++, DWARF, and HSA. Brand earned a degree in computer science from the University of St. Andrews, specializing in compiler implementation. They also are a poet, filmmaker, musician, activist, and parent to three cats and one entire human.

Tony has been coding for well over 25 years, and hopefully coding well for at least some of it. If awards are to be believed, he is a very engaging speaker.  He is a member of the C++ Standards Committee. He is a Ninja, he is a Jedi.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You may read more about Venkat and Agile Developer, Inc. at http://agiledeveloper.com.

Victor Ciura is a Principal Engineer on the Rust team in Microsoft DevDiv, building the compiler toolchain and libraries needed for the broader 🦀Oxidizer effort across the organization and Rust open-source community.

Spent the last 20+ years doing systems programming in C++ on various teams, such as: Visual C++ (DevDiv), Advanced Installer, Clang Power Tools.

He’s a regular guest at Computer Science Department of his Alma Mater, University of Craiova, where he gives student lectures & workshops on algorithms and optimization techniques, using modern C++, Rust, Haskell.

More details: https://ciura.ro & linkedin.com/in/victor-ciura
Social:
🐦 Twitter/X: @ciura_victor
🐘 Mastodon: hachyderm.io/@ciura_victor
🦋 Bluesky: @ciuravictor.bsky.social


Vitaly is a principal software engineer at reMarkable. He has been designing and developing software using C++ and some other languages for over a decade. Primary areas of interest are design and development of frameworks and libraries, modern programming languages, and functional programming.
Vitaly holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Moscow State Mining University.

Vyacheslav is an independent freelance contractor, and founder of a small consultancy called OSS Keepers. Being an active contributor to various open source projects like Linux Kernel, Yocto Project, Trusted Firmware A, and others, he helps companies in the Embedded field with their projects.
 
He specializes in the Yocto Project, Linux Device Drivers, board bring-up, secure boot and different update workflows. His main programming languages are C, C++ in different standards, Python, and Golang.

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