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. 

Antonio Liccardi is a book author and trainer working as Chief Technical Officer at Blexin. Thanks to his love for sharing, he co-founded “DotNetCampania” (an Italian .NET community), with which he helps others to improve their knowledge about .NET Ecosystem and more in general about coding.
Antonio is a frequent speaker at conferences, and Microsoft has awarded him as MVP for Visual Studio Developer Technologies since 2015.
You can find him on Twitter as @turibbio.

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.

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

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.


SW developer since 1999. Passionate about software development and writing high-quality testable code.

Guy Davidson has been making games for over forty years, the last twenty of which have been with Creative Assembly, the UK's oldest and largest games company. He is a regular C++ committee member, cofounder of the #include diversity and inclusion group for C++, and enjoys practicing the piano. He is the author of "Beautiful C++ - 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code", edited by Kate Gregory, soon to be published by Addison Wesley.

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.

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

James has been working for more than 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 Tomra’s Reverse Vending Machines strange dreams, James enjoys the Norwegian outdoors, especially when skiing and flyfishing.

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 https://cyber-dojo.org 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

Jussi Pakkanen is the creator and project lead of the Meson build system. He has worked with almost every part of a modern Linux system ranging from the kernel all the way to GUI applications and web services. He is currently working as a consultant working on a wide variety of fields from 3D architectural software to computer security and slot machines. When not working on computers, he might be found watching bad movies or drawing.

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.

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 a (co-)organizer of the Munich C++ user group (https://www.meetup.com/MUCplusplus/).

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 Colaboration Video Endpoints.

Martin views himself as a code monkey, enjoying the weird parts of C++, Linux and Security. He enjoys digging through new code to figure out how it works, and spending time improving tools to increate the happiness and workflow of the people he works with.

While not working, Martin loves creating and playing out stories in role playing games, especially Dungeons and Dragons. Or grabbing a tent and running out into the woods with his wife to escape from the fast pace of everyday life.

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.


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.

Michael D. Shah completed his Ph.D. at Tufts University in the Redline Research Group in 2017. Michael finished his Masters degree in Computer Science in 2013 at Tufts University and Bachelors in Computers Science Engineering at The Ohio State University in 2011. Currently Michael is an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University and occasionally consults as a Senior 3D Graphics Engineer. 

Michael discovered computer science at the age of 13 when googling ”how do I make games”. From that google search, Mike has worked as a freelance game developer, worked in industry for Intel, Sony PlayStation, Oblong Industries, and researched at The Ohio Supercomputer Center to name a few. Mike cares about building tools to help programmers monitor and improve the performance of realtime applications–particularly any visual multimedia. Mike believes computer science can be learned by all.

In Michael’s spare time he goes for long runs, plays video games while on his exercise bike, learns guitar, and considers himself an amateur pizza and wine maker.

I have been a C/C++ developer for over 9 years which I spend working with many various platforms with and without operating system.
I am an active 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. 

Nir Dobovizki is a software architect and a consultant at CodeValue, Nir has been developing software professionally for over two decades and recently started building all sort of robots, both professionally and at home.

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.

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 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.

From 8-bit machines via the Amiga demoscene to a career in realtime video processing, Sjur Julin has been using and producing high performance multimedia applications for decades. Recently co-authored the book 'Real Programming' with companion Nils L. Corneliusen.

Tamir is a programmer and a reverse engineer. He currently works as a binary-analysis team leader at Vdoo.

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.

Yuri is working in the PVS-Studio company as one of developers of the C++ static analyzer.
His primary responsibility is to keep low-level stuff in order and add new features to the core module.
He joined the team in 2018 after about 12 years of IT experience.
Apart from that, he periodically gives talks at various conferences - mainly on topics related to static analysis and C++.

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

Antonio Turibbio Liccardi

Austin Bingham

Björn Fahller

Chris Simmonds

Christian Resell

Corentin Jabot

Daniela Engert

Erik Engheim

Espen Albrektsen

Guy Davidson

Hana Dusíková

Hans Elias B. Josephsen

Ian Cooper

James Westfall

Jason Turner

Jon Jagger

Jussi Pakkanen

Jørgen Kvalsvik

Klaus Iglberger