With a passion for Software Engineering challenges, both technical and social, Ali dedicates his time designing software systems and building engineering organizations. He is currently the managing director at KOPERA, a Stavanger based embedded software consulting firm. Before which, he held the CTO role at Soundrop, and worked as a software engineer for Cisco and TANDBERG where he built enterprise video conferencing and telepresence systems.

It was at this latter where he began his now 12 years journey with Erlang, from building a video-enabled social network and communication system to deploying a large scale online music event platform and shipping various embedded systems powered by Erlang.

Ali holds a Master of Engineering in Computer Technology from INSA Lyon coupled with 15 years of professional experience. He is fluent in various programming languages including C, C++, Python, Erlang, Elixir and TypeScript; as well as human languages: English, French, Arabic and some Norwegian.

Anders started programming in Turbo Pascal in 1995, and has been programming professionally in various languages since 2001. He's currently a senior developer at Zivid, making 3D cameras for robot vision. He's the author of cppquiz.org and the blog C++ on a Friday. 

25+ years of experience in global product development leading world class cross functional teams. Arild’s passion in life is product development leading development teams to perform and innovate to make great products. Currently leading the development team in one of the most exciting startup companies in Norway, Zivid As. Previously, Arild was Senior Director and Site lead for Cisco Engineering Norway with global responsibility for a top performing team of 300+ people in Oslo and Bangalore developing world-class portfolio of Collaboration and Video Systems. Before that Arild had various leadership positions in Ask/InFocus leading engineering teams developing a portfolio of world class projectors

Arne Mertz has been working with modern and not-so-modern C++ codebases for over 13 years in embedded and enterprise contexts. He is a mentor and teacher for clean code and modern C++ for colleagues and customers at Zühlke Engineering and a freelance trainer. Since 2015 he writes more or less frequently about those topics on his blog "Simplify C++!"

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.

Embedded software developer with over 10 years of experience in writing firmware for Nordic's low power wireless chips. Working in Bluetooth low energy and cellular IOT technologies. Been in software industry for over 17 years.

Björn wrote his first program in 1980. After completing his MSc in CS and Engineering in 1994, programming has been the primary source of income, mostly from writing embedded software for communications systems. He has been working for a while at Net Insight, where he wears many hats, including mentor, trouble shooter, network communications expert, software architect and programmer; the latter in increasingly modern C++.

Occasionally Björn has been seen tinkering with unorthodox software constructs, pondering "what can be done with this?" He lives in Stockholm

Chris Simmonds is a software consultant and trainer living in southern England. He has spent almost two decades designing and building open-source embedded systems of all shapes and sizes, and he has encapsulated much of that experience in his book, “Mastering Embedded Linux Programming”.

He is a frequent presenter at open source and embedded conferences, including the Embedded Linux Conference and Embedded World. You can see some of his work on the “Inner Penguin” blog at www.2net.co.uk

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.

Eirik has spent most of his career working with embedded systems and wireless communication, mainly as a software engineer. Now he mainly spends his time in customer meetings, trying to understand their needs, propose solutions, and convey the customer needs to the engineers. Having a deep interest in how work works he try to be the manager he wish he had when he was working with code.

Feross Aboukhadijeh is a programmer, designer, teacher, and mad scientist. He is currently building WebTorrent, a streaming BitTorrent client for the browser, powered by WebRTC. Before that, he built PeerCDN, a peer-to-peer content delivery network that makes sites faster and cheaper. He is a graduate of Stanford University and he has worked at Quora, Facebook, and Intel. In the past, Feross did research in the Stanford human-computer interaction and computer security labs. He enjoys working on "mad science" — projects that make people say, "Whoa! I didn't know that was possible!".

She is a staff scientist in Avast Software where she is working on distributed and high-performance backend systems. She is the chair of SG7 (Study Group for Reflection and Compile-Time Programming) and Czechia National Body representative in WG21 (ISO C++ committee). Hana is also the author of the CTRE library (Compile Time Regular Expressions).

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.

While surrounded by computers since before they could walk, Inge first learned programming at university. At university Inge received a Master of Science in Engineering Cybernetics from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).  Inge is now fast approaching 15 years of programming experience.  After many years as a consultant, they are comfortable in a more stable endeavour as a senior software engineer at Tomra Collection making Reverse Vending Machines.  Inge is most interested in making code not only readable, but understandable.  They try to avoid programming in their spare time, instead playing music and building LEGO.

James Lewis is a Software Architect and Director at ThoughtWorks based in the UK. He’s proud to have been a part of ThoughtWorks’ journey for fifteen years and it’s ongoing mission of delivering technical excellence for its clients and in amplifying positive social change for an equitable future. As a member of the ThoughtWorks Technical Advisory Board, the group that creates the Technology Radar, he contributes to industry adoption of open source and other tools, techniques, platforms and languages.

He is an internationally recognised expert on software architecture and design and on its intersection with organisational design and lean product development. As such he’s been a guest editor for IEEE Software, written articles, delivered training and spoken at more conferences than he can remember.

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.

After almost 20 years in product design and development consulting, Jonathan now provides Rust language training and support at Ferrous Systems. His back story covers satellite modems, Bluetooth hands-free kits, wildlife cameras in Antarctica and LF/UHF proximity warning systems.

Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make an Agile transition. She has a unique experience in applying Agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects. Jutta has recently pair-written with John Buck a book entitled Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova). Besides that, she has published her experience in her books Agile Software Development in the Large, Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, Retrospectives for Organizational Change, and together with Johanna Rothman Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio.
Jutta is a member of the Agile Alliance (having served the board of directors from 2003-2007) and a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian, and European conferences, where she has also presented her work. She holds a M.A. in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl. Eng. (MSc.) in Product-Engineering, a B.A. in Education, and is trained as a pollution control commissioner on ecological environmentalism.

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.

Kate Gregory has been paid for program for over forty years, mostly in C++. She writes, teaches, mentors, codes, and leads projects, primarily in C++. Kate is a a Visual C++ MVP, has written over a dozen books, and speaks at conferences and user groups around the world. Kate develops courses on C++, Visual Studio, and Windows programming for Pluralsight, is active on over a dozen StackExchange sites, and blogs infrequently.

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 author of "C++ Software Design" (https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/c-software-design/9781098113155/), 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/).

Dr. Kotowick is the founder of a Canadian consulting and development firm focusing on prototype and POC development for complex systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Systems Integration from MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which he completed in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He has served as a consultant, architect, and developer for global firms, startups, and universities; as the Director of Information Technology for an ambulance service; and as a researcher for military navigation systems and for life support systems in space. He specializes in working with enterprise clients to define requirements and explore possible solutions, as well as in leading the development of project architecture, cloud services, and back-end software. He volunteers as a team leader and technology specialist for World Health Organization Emergency Medical Teams deployed to disaster zones, and has a passion for exploring the uses of technology in high-risk environments.

Kyle has been doing vulnerability research as a hobby for about 17 years and has been working professionally in that area for 9 of those years.  He still gets excited whenever he manages to pop a remote shell.

For work he performs in-depth security evaluations of Cisco products written in a plethora of languages, but his focus is on C/C++ and native binary targets.  He has worked to bring a culture of automation where possible to his work in the form of fuzzing and tool scripting.

Outside of work he enjoys working with the greater security community to discuss interesting new targets, improve open-source tools, and discover new techniques.

Martin Hořeňovský is currently a researcher at Pex. He has taught modern C++ at Czech Technical University in Prague, and maintains Catch2, a popular C++ unit testing framework, in the little free time he has left.


Michael Kerrisk is a trainer, author, and programmer 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.

I have been a C/C++ developer for over 10 years which I spend working with many various platforms with and without operating system.

I am Qt contributor, author of official porting Qt on MCU, maintainer of QHttpServer. 

My hobby is to dig into a source code and understand how everything works. 

 is well-known in the community for his authoritative books and talks. For more than 20 years he has been a member of the C++ Standard Committee. He is the author of several worldwide best-sellers, including:

The C++ Standard Library - A tutorial and Reference

C++ Templates - The Complete Guide (with David Vandevoorde and Doug Gregor)

Polyglot hacker passionate about reverse-engineering and dynamic instrumentation.

Olve loves to write code, but he is just as interested in how software is developed as what it actually does. Main interests are knowledge management, embedded systems, organizational theories, C++, Python, C, TDD, secure coding, systems thinking, software architecture, energy systems, thermodynamics and machine learning. Olve is based in Oslo where he works for Equinor. 

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.

Phil is the author of the C++ test framework, Catch2, and the composable command line parser, Clara. As Developer Advocate at SonarSource he's involved with SonarLint, SonarCloud and SonarQube, primarily from a C++ perspective. More generally he's an advocate for good testing practices, TDD and using the type system, functional techniques and static analysis to reduce complexity and increase correctness. He's previously worked in Finance and Mobile as well as an independent consultant and coach specialising in TDD on iOS.

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 Effective C (No Starch, 2020), 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.

Sebastian is a chemical engineer turned software developer. Previously working with fire simulation and probabilistic risk analysis in the Oil & Gas sector, he has transitioned into software engineering and now works as an independent consultant. 

Sebastian is passionate about improving quality and reproducibility in science and research by bridging the knowledge gap between scientists and software engineers.

Tamir is a software engineer and reverse engineer. He likes playing around with software and finding simple solutions for complex problems, and complex solutions for simple problems.

Timur Doumler is C++ Developer Advocate at JetBrains and an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee. As a developer, he worked many years in the audio and music technology industry and co-founded the music tech startup Cradle. Timur is passionate about building inclusive communities, clean code, good tools, low latency, and the evolution of the C++ language.

Vitaly is a senior software engineer at Zivid, SDK team. He has been designing and developing software with using C++ and some other languages for over 8 years. 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.

Ólafur Waage is a Senior Software Developer working for TurtleSec in Norway. Previously he worked for many years in the gaming and air traffic control industries. His work focuses mainly on programming with C++. In his spare time he unsurprisingly likes video games and puzzles but he 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

Ali Sabil

Anders Schau Knatten

Arild Ulfeng

Arne Mertz

Austin Bingham

Balaji Srinivasan

Björn Fahller

Chris Simmonds

Daniela Engert

Eirik Midttun

Feross Aboukhadijeh

Hana Dusíková

Hans Elias B. Josephsen

Inge Fredriksen

James Lewis

James Westfall

Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant

Jutta Eckstein

Jørgen Kvalsvik

Kate Gregory