Meeting C++ in Berlin, Germany 2014

A huge thank you for the scholarship, which allowed me to attend this conference! I vastly enjoyed both the workshops and the conference, and wouldn't have been able to experience any of it without your sponsorship.

On December 5th and 6th of 2014, Europe’s largest C++ conference took place at andel’s hotel in Berlin. think-cell is pleased to have been a key sponsor of this event. As we are enthusiastic about C++, we offered 50 European computer science students a conference scholarship. With this scholarship, we provided free attendance of the conference, free entrance to three C++ related workshops with our C++ experts, and participation in a dinner event for all scholarship holders.

This third ever Meeting C++ conference was particularly well-attended. 330 participants came to Berlin from all over the world to learn the newest C++ insights. Keynote speaker Scott Meyers opened the conference by talking about The Evolving Search for Effective C++. His talk was followed by three parallel series of seven lectures each. Two of these lecture series offered general C++ talks, while the third series was exclusively featuring lectures about scientific programming in C++. Valentin Ziegler, senior software engineer at think-cell, talked about concurrent programming in his lecture The C++ Memory Model.

think-cell's workshop day started on December 4th with Industrial Strength Software Hacking by Simon McPartlin, senior software engineer at think-cell. In this lecture, Simon looked at software patching and the design and implementation of robust patches. The two following workshops were dedicated to Ranges for the Standard Library (Part 1 and 2) and A Practical Approach to Error Handling, and were held by think-cell's CTO Arno Schödl. Arno’s goal was to enable the attendees to be informed participants in the upcoming standardization discussion on Ranges. He taught think-cell's method of error handling in order to help the aspiring developers write more reliable software with less effort.

The following video gallery features all think-cell lectures from the conference and the workshops:

An enjoyable evening gathering rounded off the scholarship. While having a good meal and a glass of wine, our scholarship awardees met the think-cell team to laugh, eat, and discuss C++ topics in depth.