Guest speaker Jon Kalb presenting: The C++ Beast is Back

This presentation will cover why engineers looking for performance choose C++. Jon will present a historical perspective of C++ focusing on what’s going on in the C++ community right now and where the language and its user base is heading. With a renewed interest in performance for both data centers and mobile devices, and the success of open source software libraries, C++ is back, and it is hot!

About Jon:
Jon Kalb is a freelance C++ instructor and chairs C++Now, CppCon, and the Boost Steering Committee. He has been programming in C++ for over 25 years and has written C++ for Amazon, Apple, Dow Chemical, Intuit, Lotus, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, and Yahoo!