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Tuesday, October 13
 

09:00 CEST

Conference Opening
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST
Welcome to Prague! We open the second edition of the OpenSSL Conference with a brief hello, a few practical notes for the days ahead, and an introduction of the people leading OpenSSL Corporation today.
Speakers
MZ

Magda Zdunkiewicz

OpenSSL Corporation
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST
Room 1
  Community, Talk

09:50 CEST

Three Decades of OpenSSL: A Leadership Conversation
Tuesday October 13, 2026 09:50 - 10:50 CEST
Thirty years ago, SSLeay β€” the library that became OpenSSL Library β€” was born from the work of Eric A. Young and Tim Hudson. In this conversation, moderated by Magda Zdunkiewicz, they join Matt Caswell to reflect on how a two-person project became critical global infrastructure, the lessons of three decades, and where OpenSSL Library goes from here.
Speakers
MC

Matt Caswell

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... Read More →
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Tim Hudson

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... Read More →
EA

Eric A. Young

The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
MZ

Magda Zdunkiewicz

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
  Community, Panel

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
NIST published ML-KEM/ML-DSA/SLH-DSA in Aug 2024, yet stable specs for TLS, email, code signing remain elusive. This panel explores why and what the community can do.
Speakers
MO

Mike Ounsworth

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... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Talk

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
OpenSSL's contributor record shows the library is written overwhelmingly by paid engineers β€” a corrective to the volunteer-burnout narrative.
Speakers
KS

Kajal Sapkota

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... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Talk
 
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