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09:00 CEST
Conference Opening
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST
Speakers MZ
OpenSSL Corporation
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:00 - 09:05
CEST
Room 1
09:05 CEST
Welcome to the OpenSSL Conference 2026
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:05 - 09:20 CEST
Speakers
Director, OpenSSL Corporation
Anton Arapov is a Director of the OpenSSL Corporation, where he manages both strategic direction and day-to-day operations. He has a background in software development and services, which he applies to improving processes, increasing efficiency, and supporting innovation. Anton is...
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Dev Team, OpenSSL
Tim Hudson has been involved in system security for more than 20 years. Tim's day job is as the CTO at Cryptsoft where he provides advice and guidance on security technology design and architecture. Tim is involved in KMIP, PKCS#11, FIPS140, OASIS and SNIA and is a long time OpenSSL...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:05 - 09:20
CEST
Room 1
09:20 CEST
Cisco — Session Title Coming Soon
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:20 - 09:50 CEST
Speakers JF
VP Engineering - Foundational Security Technologies, Cisco
Jonathan Felten is Vice President of Engineering in Cisco's Security and Trust Organization. He leads the Foundational Security Technology teams, which design, develop, and deploy security technologies and cryptographic services across Cisco's product and solution portfolio. With...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:20 - 09:50
CEST
Room 1
09:50 CEST
Three Decades of OpenSSL: A Leadership Conversation
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:50 - 10:50 CEST
Speakers MC
Executive Director, OpenSSL Foundation
Matt Caswell is Executive Director and Principal Software Engineer at the OpenSSL Foundation, where he has been a core developer for over a decade. He has contributed to every layer of the libssl codebase and is a subject matter expert on OpenSSL's TLS implementation, with particular...
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Dev Team, OpenSSL
Tim Hudson has been involved in system security for more than 20 years. Tim's day job is as the CTO at Cryptsoft where he provides advice and guidance on security technology design and architecture. Tim is involved in KMIP, PKCS#11, FIPS140, OASIS and SNIA and is a long time OpenSSL...
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The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
MZ
OpenSSL Corporation
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:50 - 10:50
CEST
Room 1
10:50 CEST
Bouncy Castle — Session Title Coming Soon
Tuesday October 13, 2026 10:50 - 11:20 CEST
Speakers
VP Software Engineering, Bouncy Castle
David has been working on Cryptography APIs and secure protocols since the mid-1990s and in IT and open-source since the mid-1980s. He is a founder and still active committer of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle Cryptography project which began in the year 2000 and provides APIs in...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 10:50 - 11:20
CEST
Room 1
11:20 CEST
Rebranding OpenSSL FIPS 140-3 Validations from a Laboratory Perspective
Tuesday October 13, 2026 11:20 - 11:50 CEST
Speakers JP
Associate FIPS Tester, Lightship Security, Inc
Jonathan (Jon) Park is an Associate FIPS Tester with Lightship Security Inc. and brings more than 25 years of experience in IT, project support, and compliance testing. Leveraging a strong background in technology operations and quality assurance, he now focuses on cybersecurity testing...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 11:20 - 11:50
CEST
Room 1
12:00 CEST
Lunch
Tuesday October 13, 2026 12:00 - 13:10 CEST
Tuesday October 13, 2026 12:00 - 13:10
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All Rooms
13:20 CEST
13:50 CEST
Securosys — Session Title Coming Soon
Tuesday October 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Speakers
Executive Vice President of Engineering, Securosys
Throughout his career, Marcel has amassed a comprehensive skill set in engineering, applied cryptography, and technical leadership. He is an expert in designing and implementing secure, scalable, and high-performance systems, with a deep understanding of the latest trends and best...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 13:50 - 14:20
CEST
Room 1
14:20 CEST
Beyond the Checkbox: How Product Certifications Drive Ongoing Security Strategy and Market Access
Tuesday October 13, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 CEST
Speakers LR
Product Certification, NetApp, Inc.
Lisa Rogers is a Technical Program Manager at NetApp, with more than 12 years of experience leading certifications including FIPS 140, Common Criteria, CSfC, DoDIN APL, FedRAMP, HITRUST, EUCC, 508 VPAT, Ready Logo, USGv6, and related frameworks. She partners with engineering, legal...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 14:20 - 14:50
CEST
Room 1
14:50 CEST
Afternoon Tea
Tuesday October 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:20 CEST
Tuesday October 13, 2026 14:50 - 15:20
CEST
All Rooms
15:20 CEST
Why have the PQC standards taken so long? Bottlenecks, bickering, and building momentum
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Speakers MO
Lead open source maintainer, Cryptic Forest Software
Mike Ounsworth is a software security architect and cryptographic protocol designer. He is deeply involved in the Post-Quantum transition, particularly in re-designing IETF networking protocols to accommodate the new PQC algorithms, dual-algorithm hybrids, and mechanisms to ease migration...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00
CEST
Room 2
15:20 CEST
The EU CRA vs. Community: Why You’re Safe, and How Stewards Help
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Speakers
Program Manager, Red Hat Czech, s.r.o.
Jaroslav is the Principal Program Manager guiding standards and regulatory initiatives for Red Hat's Product Security Compliance team. His 18-year tenure is defined by his unique versatility: he is as dedicated to his beloved Fedora open-source community as he is to ensuring Red Hat...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00
CEST
Room 3
15:20 CEST
Hybrid FIPS module using OpenSSL code: the Kryoptic project
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Speakers
Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat, LLC
Simo Sorce is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat based in New York,
where he has served as the RHEL Crypto Team Lead for many years. While he was a founder of the FreeIPA and SSSD projects and a long-time member of the Samba Team, his work now centers on the architectural security and cryptographic integrity of the platform. He maintains core cryptographic...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00
CEST
Room 1
15:20 CEST
Open Quantum Safe: Post-Quantum software research in the era of the first PQC standards
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Speakers RM
Senior Cryptography Researcher, Indra Sistemas de Comunicaciones Seguras / Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Rodrigo is a Senior Cryptography Researcher at Indra Sistemas de Comunicaciones Seguras, with experience both in pre-quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography, his area of expertise. He is also an Industrial PhD candidate, focused on the algebraic aspects of PQC, specifically Algebraic...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00
CEST
Room 4
16:05 CEST
During a Breach: How Encryption is Evaluated by Regulators, Insurers, and Counsel
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:45 CEST
Speakers AM
Senior Counsel, Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP
Amanda is a cybersecurity and privacy attorney focused on incident response and regulatory compliance. She advises organizations on complex data security incidents, including ransomware attacks and business email compromises, as well as compliance with a wide range of data protection...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:45
CEST
Room 3
16:05 CEST
Architecting the Agility Layer: Forging a Common Crypto API for the Post-Quantum Era
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
Speakers
VP Software Engineering, Bouncy Castle
David has been working on Cryptography APIs and secure protocols since the mid-1990s and in IT and open-source since the mid-1980s. He is a founder and still active committer of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle Cryptography project which began in the year 2000 and provides APIs in...
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Senior Product Architect, Keyfactor
Mike Kushner is a Senior Product Architect at Keyfactor and a longtime contributor to EJBCA, one of the world's leading open-source PKI platforms. A self-described "certificate nurturer," Mike brings deep expertise in public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, and cryptographic lifecycle...
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VP, Cryptographic Technology, Keyfactor
Vladimir Soukharev, Ph.D., is a cryptographer specializing in post-quantum security and the broader cryptographic landscape. He earned his doctorate at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, focusing on elliptic curve cryptography under Professor...
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Distinguished Technologist, HP Security Lab
Murugiah Souppaya is a Distinguished Technologist at HP Security Lab, where he leads strategic advanced development projects to help customers adopt state of the art endpoint security capabilities to further enterprise zero trust and security outcomes. He collaborates with HP’s...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55
CEST
Room 4
16:05 CEST
Merkle Tree Certificate Proofs - How Merkle Trees and Merkle Subtrees are used in MTC's
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
Speakers BB
Software Engineer, OpenSSL Corporation
Bob was born in the USA, with his parents escaping to Canada in a balloon during the Nixon Regime. He gained much unix experience at an early age and a fasicnation with fiddling with network stacks led tohis finding of a used SparcStation in the early 90's, When NetBSD did not run...
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Software Engineer, OpenSSL Corporation
Andrew is a smart guy who is Bob's co-conspirator for these talks. this bio needs to be fixed by Andrew.
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55
CEST
Room 2
16:05 CEST
OpenSSL's TLS Implementation: Inside the State Machine and Record Layer
Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55 CEST
Speakers MC
Executive Director, OpenSSL Foundation
Matt Caswell is Executive Director and Principal Software Engineer at the OpenSSL Foundation, where he has been a core developer for over a decade. He has contributed to every layer of the libssl codebase and is a subject matter expert on OpenSSL's TLS implementation, with particular...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 16:05 - 16:55
CEST
Room 1
17:00 CEST
Verifiable Builds in Untrusted Clouds
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Speakers RM
CTO, Flowrate
René Malmgren is a cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of experience in secure systems, cryptography, and software engineering. He specializes in the design and implementation of hyper-secure development environments, trusted computing architectures, and high-assurance...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30
CEST
Room 4
17:00 CEST
Who Pays for Open Source? A First-Party Answer from the OpenSSL Corporation
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Speakers KS
Business Development Manager, OpenSSL Corporation
Kajal Sapkota is Business Development Manager and Commercial Lead at OpenSSL Corporation, where she manages its funding: support contracts and partnerships across roughly one hundred organizations. She also leads sponsor relations for the OpenSSL Conference and has worked across marketing...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30
CEST
Room 2
17:00 CEST
17:00 CEST
17:30 CEST
The Perfect Storm: Why Tech Is the Next Target for Destructive Regulation
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Speakers DY
Chair of the Board, OASIS-Open
Daniella Taveau is the Founder of Bold Text Strategies and, as of September 2025, Chair of the Board for OASIS-Open. She is an internationally recognized expert in government affairs, global trade, regulation, and complex business strategy, with deep experience across international...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00
CEST
Room 3
17:30 CEST
1 Module 3 Transitions
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Speakers JM
Director of Engineering, SafeLogic
Jake Maynard has been in the Cyber Security industry for over twenty years. He spent over 17 years with Citrix Systems (Sponsor of OpenSSL’s 2.x FIPS canister) working on Networking, Mobile Device Management, and Virtualization technologies ultimately landing in the security engineering...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00
CEST
Room 4
17:30 CEST
17:30 CEST
Lessons learned on proper cryptographic hygiene in Rust
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Speakers MO
Lead open source maintainer, Cryptic Forest Software
Mike Ounsworth is a software security architect and cryptographic protocol designer. He is deeply involved in the Post-Quantum transition, particularly in re-designing IETF networking protocols to accommodate the new PQC algorithms, dual-algorithm hybrids, and mechanisms to ease migration...
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Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:30 - 18:00
CEST
Room 2