CppCon 2017

Herb chairs the ISO C++ committee and is the primary author or co-author of a number of Standard C++ features, including nullptr, enum class, parallel algorithms, C++17 structured bindings, and the in-progress unified ＜=＞ comparison operator.

Michael Wong is VP of R&D at Codeplay Software. He is a current Director and VP of ISOCPP , and a senior member of the C++ Standards Committee with more then 15 years of experience. | He chairs the WG21 SG5 Transactional Memory and SG14 Games Development/Low Latency/Financials C++ groups and is the co-author of a number C++/OpenMP/Transactional memory features including generalized attributes, user-defined literals, inheriting constructors, weakly ordered memory models, and explicit conversion operators. He has published numerous research papers and is the author of a book on C++11. He has been in invited speaker and keynote at numerous conferences. | | He is currently the editor of SG1 Concurrency TS and SG5 Transactional Memory TS. He is also the Chair of the SYCL standard and all Programming Languages for Standards Council of Canada. | | Previously, he was CEO of OpenMP involved with taking OpenMP toward Acceelerator support and the Technical Strategy Architect responsible for moving IBM's compilers to Clang/LLVM after leading... Read More →