Anders started programming in Turbo Pascal in 1995 and has worked as a software developer in various languages since 2001. He's currently a Senior Software Engineer at Zivid, where he's working on machine vision in C++. He's the author of [CppQuiz.org](

). He also gives terrible C++ advice as [AffectiveCpp](

Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software in C++ and Python. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments developing LabVIEW, at Applied Research Labs (Univ. of Texas at Austin) developing sonar systems for the U.S. Navy, and at a number of telecommunications companies. He is an experienced presenter and teacher, having spoken at numerous conferences, software groups, and internal corporate venues. Austin is also an active member of the open source community, contributing regularly to various Python and Emacs projects, and he's the founder of Stavanger Software Developers, one of the largest and most active social software groups in Stavanger. Austin holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Christian is a security engineer working with tracking and analyzing APT actors. He has previously worked with vulnerability research and malware analysis. He is an avid CTF player and regularly solves challenges related to binary exploitation for his team.

Together, Marit and Christian compete in CTFs with the top Norwegian CTF team, bootplug. At the time of writing bootplug is ranked 7 in the world. In competitions Marit usually starts at the easy end of the binary exploitation challenges, while Christian starts at the advanced end. Together they make a great team!

Corentin Jabot is a freelance developer and member of the C++ committee where he participates in the Unicode and library evolution working groups.

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 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.

Erik Engheim has a passion for the interaction between humans and technology, and writes regularly about user interface design, technology behind crypto currencies or programming languages as well as creating educational material such as videos and books.

He loves trying out new programming language and likes both the very abstract like Haskell or LISP as well as low-level programming with C or e.g. programming assembly language on a micro-controller.

Erik has worked many years in the oil industry developing 3D modeling and simulation software for the oil industry and worked as a consultant developing software for tablets and smart phones.



Hana is working as a senior researcher at Avast Software. Her responsibility is exploring new ideas and optimizing existing ones. She also propagates modern C++ techniques and libraries in internal tech talks and gives talks at local C++ meetups. She studied computer science at Mendel University and subsequently taught several courses there, including Data Structures, Computability and Complexity, and Formal Languages and Automata.

Hans is a programmer and speaker with an interest in everything from electronic engineering to compiler development.
He regularly speaks at conferences about his Rust and Elixir work, and has been involved in the Rust community since 2015. He is a regular contributor to variety of open source Rust projects.

Polyglot Coding Architect in London, founder of #ldnug, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on @BrighterCommand

Jason has 2 decades of C++ experience and is a regular conference speaker, developer, and trainer. He is host of the YouTube channel C++ Weekly and co-host of CppCast, the first podcast for C++ developers.

I'm head of software at Merkely. I specialise in practice, process, test driven development, and complex-adaptive systems-thinking.
I'm 35 years old (hex) and I've loved software since I was 10 (decimal).
I'm married to the beautiful Natalie, and proud father of Ellie, Penny and Patrick.
I built 

 to promote deliberate practice for software developers.
I was a self-employed consultant for 20 years. I worked with Accenture, Aviva, Cisco, Ericsson, Friends Provident, HP, Microsoft, Opera, Ordnance Survey, RBS, Reuters, Renault F1, Schlumberger, Tandberg and many many more.
I'm the co-author (with Olve Maudal) of the Deep C/C++ slide deck (over 1,000,000 views)
I'm the ex ECMA Task Group 2 C# convenor.
I've had some C# books published.
I'm the ex ACCU conference chairman.
I love coarse fishing and salmon fishing.
I live in Somerset, England.
On twitter I'm @JonJagger

Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, trainer, speaker, and author. She has a unique experience in applying Agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects. She has published several books, the most recent one is: Company-wide Agility with Beyond-Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (co-authored with John Buck).

Jørgen is a programmer and free software enthusiast, with a passion for programming languages, high-quality software, and beautiful programs. He mostly works with developing libraries for scientific computing and peculiar legacy industry files in the energy industry. He has an MSc in Computer Science from NTU and develops free software at Equinor in Bergen.

Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites, including Better Software, The Register, Application Development Advisor, Java Report and the C/C++ Users Journal. Kevlin is co–author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern–Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know site and book.

Marit is a Senior Software Engineer working with secure development and application security at Sopra Steria. She is engaged in the hacking community in Norway and is the former leader of Norway’s largest CTF, TG:HACK.

Together, Marit and Christian compete in CTFs with the top Norwegian CTF team, bootplug. At the time of writing bootplug is ranked 7 in the world. In competitions Marit usually starts at the easy end of the binary exploitation challenges, while Christian starts at the advanced end. Together they make a great team!

Martin Ertsås is a software developer working for Cisco Systems in Norway on their Telepresence Hardware Endpoints. His main interests are C++, Linux, Security, Embedded Systems, and Developer Happiness. Martin enjoys digging through new code to unravel how it works or spending time improving a tool or process to increase the happiness and productivity of those around him.

A software architect, principal engineer, and security champion with more than 15 years of experience in designing, writing, and maintaining C++ code for fun and living. A trainer with 10 years of C++ teaching experience, consultant, conference speaker, and evangelist. His main areas of interest and expertise are Modern C++, code performance, low latency, safety, and maintainability.

Mateusz worked at Intel for 13 years, and now he is a Principal Software Engineer and the head of the C++ Competency Center at EPAM Systems. He is also a founder of Train IT that provides dedicated C++ trainings and consultant services to corporations around the world.

Mateusz is a contributor and an active voting member of the ISO C++ Committee (WG21) where, together with the best C++ experts in the world, he shapes the future of the C++ language. He is also a co-chair of WG21 Study Group 14 (SG14) responsible for driving performance and low latency subjects in the Committee. Recently also joined MISRA to help make self-driving cars safer.

Michael Kerrisk is a programmer, writer, and trainer who has a passion for investigating and explaining software systems. He is the author of "The Linux Programming Interface", a widely acclaimed book on Linux (and UNIX) system programming. He has been actively involved in the Linux development community since 2000, operating mainly in the area of testing, design review, and documentation of kernel-user-space interfaces. Since 2004, he has maintained the Linux "man-pages" project, which provides the primary documentation for Linux system calls and C library functions. Michael is a New Zealander, living in Munich, Germany, from where he operates a training business (man7.org) providing low-level Linux programming courses in Europe, North America, and occasionally further afield.

Nicolai M. Josuttis is an independent technical consultant who designs mid-sized and large software systems for the telecommunication, traffic, finance, and manufacturing industries. A former member of the C++ Standard Committee library working group, Nico is well known in the programming community for his authoritative books. In addition to

 a worldwide best-seller since its first publication in 1999, his books include 

 (with David Vandevoorde, Addison-Wesley, 2003) and 

SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design

Polyglot hacker passionate about reverse-engineering and dynamic instrumentation.

Patricia Aas is an international speaker and has spoken at CppCon, ACCU, C++OnSea, NDC Security, NDC Oslo and many other conferences on subjects ranging from Sandboxing in Chromium to Vulnerabilities in C++. She has taught a range of subjects in Computer Science at the University of Oslo.

Patricia has a masters degree in Computer Science and 13 years professional experience as a programmer, most of that time programming in C++. During that time she has worked in codebases with a high focus on security: two browsers (Opera and Vivaldi) and embedded Cisco telepresence systems.

Robert Seacord is a Technical Director at NCC Group, where he develops and delivers secure coding training in C, C++, and other languages. Robert is an expert on ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14, the international standardization working group for the C programming language. He is the author of seven books, including 

The CERT C Coding Standard, Second Edition

Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition

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.

Sebastian is an independent consultant and international speaker and workshop organizer.

His nine years of experience span Oil & Gas, Industrial IT and IoT. Prior to starting his consulting practice, he worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Whitson AS.



His main areas of interest include consulting practices, IoT and Python.

Tony Van Eerd makes magic with light at Christie Digital. If awards are to be believed, he is a very engaging speaker. He is a member of the C++ Standards Committee. He is also both a Ninja and a Jedi.

Ólafur Waage is a Senior Programmer that has worked for 7 years in the gaming industry and previously worked in the Air Traffic Control industry. His work focuses mainly on programming with C++ and TypeScript. In his spare time he unsurprisingly likes video games and puzzles. Also enjoys non-fiction audio books and it would be a very strange day if it were not filled with music in some way.

NDC { TechTown }

Speakers

Anders Schau Knatten

Austin Bingham

Christian Resell

Corentin Jabot

Daniela Engert

Erik Engheim

Hana Dusíková

Hans Elias B. Josephsen

Ian Cooper

Jason Turner

Jon Jagger

Jutta Eckstein

Jørgen Kvalsvik

Kevlin Henney

Marit Iren Rognli Tokle

Martin Ertsås

Mateusz Pusz

Michael Kerrisk

Nicolai Josuttis

Ole André Vadla Ravnås