# Meetup #3: Herb Sutter

Source: https://www.meetup.com/cppsingapore/events/311763731/

Starts: 2025-11-20T18:30:00+08:00
Ends: 2025-11-20T21:30:00+08:00

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

This time, we have one of the biggest names in the C++ community joining us — Herb Sutter!

👉 Herb Sutter is a technical fellow at Citadel Securities, designer of several Standard C++ features, and chair of the ISO C++ committee and the Standard C++ Foundation. His current interest is simplifying C++.

The meet-up will be held at the Clifford Pier at the Fullerton Bay Hotel.

Anyone interested in the C++ programming language, from students to professionals, is welcome!

**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:** Clifford Pier, Fullerton Bay Hotel
📅 **When:** November 20th
🕡 Time: 6:30PM - 9:30PM

***Format of event*:**

1. 6:00-7:30PM – arrivals/networking (food/drinks)
2. 7:30-8:30PM – presentation by Herb
3. 8:30-9:15/30 – Q&A / AMA
4. 9:15/30-10:00PM – networking

The details of the talk are given below.

✅ **Reflection -- C++'s decade-defining rocket engine**

In June 2025, C++ crossed a Rubicon: it handed us the keys to its own machinery. For the first time, C++ can describe itself—and generate more. The first compile-time reflection features in draft C++26 mark the most transformative turning point in our language’s history by giving us the most powerful new engine for expressing efficient abstractions that C++ has ever had, and we’ll need the next decade to discover what this rocket can do.

This talk is a high-velocity tour through what reflection enables today in C++26, and what it will enable next. The point of this talk isn’t to immediately grok any given technique or example. The takeaway is bigger: to leave all of us dizzy from the sheer volume of different examples, asking again and again, “Wait, we can do *that* now?!”—to fire up our imaginations to discover and develop this enormous new frontier together, and chart the strange new worlds C++ reflection has just opened for us to explore.

Reflection has arrived, more is coming, and the frontier is open. Let’s go.

📸 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 Citadel Securities. We are grateful to them for helping us organise and finance this meet-up.***

*Please note information filled up in the registration form will be shared with our sponsor Citadel Securities.*