GlobalCpp

Welcome to the landing page for GlobalCpp, a collaboration between numerous regional C++ User Groups. Very much new and very much under construction. Please join us on this endeavor!

Join us for our weekly online tech presentations Saturdays at 11 am CT, 12 pm ET.

• Zoom Link
• • NOTE: Not this week: Only Zoom * YouTube live
• Please join us on the GlobalCpp Discord Server to ask questions if you do not wish to have your voice on stream.
• Google Calendar for upcoming presentations

More Content!

• YouTube for all our videos, usually same-day, pending volunteer effort
• GoodReads for member-recommended C++ books
• Other C++ Videos recommended by our members

Please also check out our individual user groups:

• Bay Area
• Chicago Meetup, Chicago Info Page
• New York
• Portland
• Serbia
• Stockholm
• Tel Aviv
• Toronto
• Vienna
• Warsaw
• Windsor
• Winnipeg

And don’t forget to check out this year’s conferences:

• NDC {Toronto} : May 5-8 Toronto, CA : Check the discord server (in channel more-cpp) for discount code
• Cppcon 2026 : Sept 12-18 Aurora, CO

Session Presenters and Topics

Coming Soon

• 2026/05/02 : Joshua Berne - Contracts for C++26

Past Presentations

• 2026/04/25 : Ivica Bogosavljević - The Hidden Performance Price of C++ Virtual Functions Video
• 2026/04/18 : Jeff Garland - Let’s write some functions, how hard could it be? Video
• 2026/04/04 : Dušan Jovanović - It’s Time for better APIs Video
• 2026/03/28 : Fedor Pikus - Lock-Free Programming and Concurrent Data Structures on Modern Hardware Video Code Slides
• 2026/03/21 : Rob Douglas - A Coding Mid-Life Crisis: Are modern programming techniques really better? Video
• 2026/03/11 - 2026/03/13 : C++ Online We will skip this Saturday and encourage all of our members to check out C++Online
• 2026/03/07 : Mike Spertus - One C++26 App, Three Ways: By Hand, By AI, and Together Slides Video
• 2026/02/28 : Ahmad Sharif - Utilizing CUDA for better performance Slides Code Repository Video
• 2026/02/21 : Nishanth Shyamkumar - DPDK - Achieving high network performance on a CPU Video
• 2026/02/14 : Barry Revzin - Exploring reflection in C++26 Code Video
• 2026/02/07 : Matt Godbolt - Advent of Code Omnibus Video
• 2026/01/31 : Victor Eijkhout - Parallelism through OpenMP (in C++, of course) - Code Repository Video
• 2026/01/24 : Rob Douglas - Combining some C++17 and later features for elegance - Code Repository Video
• 2026/01/17 : Rob Douglas - 2 topics, Conda and Type Erasure - Code Repository Video

Upcoming in-person social events near you!

This Week

• 2026/04/16 : Free Times Cafe, Toronto, ON

Soon

• 2026/04/21 : Lucky Labrador Brew Pub, Portland, OR

Past Events

• 2026/03/17 : Lucky Labrador Brew Pub, Portland, OR
• 2026/02/17 : Lucky Labrador Brew Pub, Portland, OR
• 2026/01/20 : Franklin Tap in the Chicago Loop
• 2026/01/20 : Lucky Labrador Brew Pub, Portland, OR

Upcoming Meetups

• PDXCPP Portland: Feb 17th
• Chicago C/C++ User Group Chicago: Feb 19th
• Prague C++ Prague: Feb 24th