# Meetup #2: Tim Song

Source: https://www.meetup.com/cppsingapore/events/311295441/

Starts: 2025-10-23T18:30:00+08:00
Ends: 2025-10-23T21:00:00+08:00

Please join us for our second official C++ Singapore meetup!

This time, we have someone really special coming over — Tim Song.

👉 Tim Song is a senior software engineer at Jump Trading in Chicago, a technology and engineering-driven trading firm. A member of the ISO C++ Standards Committee, he spends most of his committee time helping standard library proposals get into shape and fixing bugs in the library specification. He is the author or co-author of a number of ranges features in C++23 and C++26, as well as more than 150 library defect reports. He is also an administrator on cppreference and a frequent participant in the C++ tags on StackOverflow.

👉 In a previous life, Tim worked on modeling gene expression in dividing budding yeast (*S. cerevisiae*) cells, for which he earned a Ph.D. in computational biology and bioinformatics.

The meet-up is going to be held at the JW Marriott, 30 Beach Road, Singapore. Food and beverages will be provided.

Anyone interested in the C++ programming language, from students to professionals, are welcome! In this event, there will be some snacks and time to network, followed by a series of talks about the C++ programming language.

**Please RSVP if you plan to attend, and please *cancel* your RSVP again if you find out later that you cannot attend so that someone else can use your slot.**

📍 **Where:** JW Marriott Singapore, The Assembly - Level 2, Novemeber-Oscar Room, 30 Beach Road, Nicolle Hwy, Access via, 189763
📅 **When:** October 23rd
🕡 Time: 6:30PM - 9:00PM

**Details**
There will be some networking and snacks from from 6:30PM - 7:15PM, followed by a talk with Tim and an AMA that could run until 9:00PM.

✅ **JSON and Back Again: Exploring C++26 reflection**

One of the biggest and most exciting C++ features is reflection. In this talk, we'll work through the examples that showcases the power of the feature by using reflection to serialize a struct into JSON and deserialize JSON back into a struct. Along the way, we'll also see a few new C++26 language features and common patterns in reflection code.

✅ **Ask Me Anything!**

An AMA w/ Tim, where the audience can ask all things C++!

📸 Note: Photographs will be captured during the event for future promotional activities.
🍻 Post-Meetup Networking: Stick around for casual networking after the meetup. Let’s connect and learn from each other!

***This event is sponsored by Jump Trading. We are grateful to them for helping us organise this meet-up and help finance it.***