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Wednesday, October 14
 

09:00 CEST

OpenSSL Corporation Keynote
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 CEST
A look at where OpenSSL is heading from the Corporation's perspective: what the past year changed, and the priorities shaping the future — from post-quantum cryptography to long-term sustainability of the world's most widely deployed cryptographic software.
Speakers
avatar for Tim Hudson

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 →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 CEST
Room 1
  Keynote, Keynote

09:30 CEST

Nobody Told Maintainers They Were Saving The World. Now Is The Time.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00 CEST
Walks through Red Hat's decades-long investment in open source security and presents three structural responses to the maintainer sustainability crisis: Lightwell (a five-billion-dollar commitment to automated vulnerability remediation), Akrites (a Linux Foundation shared Security Incident Response Team), and Red Hat's Responsible CRA Stewardship approach. (Sponsor talk — Red Hat.)
Speakers
RZ

Roman Zhukov

Red Hat
Roman is a cybersecurity expert and leader with 20+ years of experience securing complex systems and products. As Principal Architect at Red Hat, he drives open-source security strategy and cross-industry collaboration. Formerly, he led Product Security & Privacy for Data Center and... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00 CEST
Room 1
  Community, Talk

10:30 CEST

TLS keyshare caching for faster handshakes
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Caching server keyshare preferences after the first handshake to avoid slow TLS 1.3 retry round-trips during crypto transitions.
Speakers
PK

Panos Kampanakis

Principal Security Engineer, AWS
Panos is a Principal Security Engineer at AWS. He has experience with cybersecurity, applied cryptography, security automation, and vulnerability management. He has coauthored publications on cybersecurity and participated in various security standards bodies to provide common interoperable... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Room 1
  Community, Talk

11:00 CEST

Cryptsoft — Session Title Coming Soon
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Session details are being finalized with the sponsor and will be published here as soon as they are available.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Room 1
  Business, Talk

11:30 CEST

Bill Buchanan — Session Title Coming Soon
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Session details are being finalized with the speaker and will be published here as soon as they are available.
Speakers
avatar for Bill Buchanan

Bill Buchanan

Professor of Applied Cryptography, Edinburgh Napier University
William (Bill) J Buchanan OBE FRSE is a Professor of Applied Cryptography in the School of Computing, Edinburgh and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University. He is a Fellow of the BCS and a Principal Fellow of the HEA. Bill was appointed an Officer of the Order of the... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Room 1
  Security, Talk

13:20 CEST

Artificial Insecurity: how AI threatens digital security and what we can do about it
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
How the proliferation of LLMs impacts privacy and encryption, with a focus on at-risk communities.
Speakers
MK

Marcel Kolaja

Policy and Advocacy Director — Europe, Access Now
Marcel Kolaja is the Policy and Advocacy Director for Europe at Access Now, an organization defending and extending the digital rights of people and communities at risk. He leads a team of digital rights policy experts and drives the advocacy agenda at the intersection of human rights... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Room 1
  Security, Talk

14:00 CEST

Daniel J. Bernstein — Session Title Coming Soon
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Session details are being finalized with the speaker and will be published here as soon as they are available. This session will be presented remotely.
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Bernstein

Daniel Bernstein

Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago
Prof. Daniel J. Bernstein designs cryptography to proactively reduce risks. His designs with large-scale deployment include X25519, Ed25519, ChaCha20, SipHash (co-designed with Jean-Philippe Aumasson), Streamlined NTRU Prime (with various co-designers), and Classic McEliece (with... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Room 1
  Technical, Talk

15:30 CEST

PLANTS and Merkle Tree Certificates
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Merkle Tree Certificates provide a post-quantum proof of name-to-key that avoids enormous PQ signatures on the wire.
Speakers
BB

Bob Beck

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... Read More →
AD

Andrew Dinh

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.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Room 1
  Technical, Talk

16:10 CEST

Why People Trust the Internet but Ignore What Protects It
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
When security works it becomes invisible; the resulting adoption and explanation problem for cryptographic infrastructure.
Speakers
BP

Brandan Payne

Owner, Payne Point Media
Brandan Payne is an entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of Payne Point Media, where he helps organizations bridge the gap between complex technology and the people expected to buy, adopt, and trust it. His work focuses on human behavior, communication, marketing, and business strategy... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Room 1
  Business, Talk

16:50 CEST

OpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:50 CEST
The Business and Technical Advisory Committees of the OpenSSL Corporation on stage: how community delegates shape business and technical decisions, what the committees achieved in their first term, and where advice turns into action. Moderated by Chris Ward.
Speakers
RB

Randall Becker

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

Dmitry Belyavskiy

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Stockholm syndrome with OpenSSL
NG

Nikolas Gauder

Technical University of Munich
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
JJ

Jeff Johnson

Senior Leader, S/W Engineering, Security and Trust Organization, Cisco Systems, Inc
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
AK

Aditya Koranga

PQStation
Aditya Koranga has a strong backround in PQC and serves as Principal Security Architect at PQStation, where he helps banks and government agencies across Southeast Asia navigate their quantum-safe migration journey. He is the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Chair of the Post-Quantum... Read More →
KM

Kevin Micciche

HPE
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
avatar for Simo Sorce

Simo Sorce

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
... Read More →
CW

Chris Ward

Community Manager, OpenSSL Corporation
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
PY

Paul Yang

Director, Lenovo
OpenSSL Committer since 2018 and a member of the OpenSSL Corporation BAC. Currently serving as Director of Cloud Security at Lenovo, specializing in confidential computing and privacy-preserving technologies.
avatar for Jaroslav Řezník

Jaroslav Řezník

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... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:50 CEST
Room 1
  Community, Panel
 
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