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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 — the library that became OpenSSL Library — 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 →
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 →
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 — 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
 
Wednesday, October 14
 

09:30 CEST

From Zero to Hero: A Student's Journey Contributing to Production Cryptography
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 09:45 CEST
A student's journey: build systems, navigating a mature codebase, contribution workflows, and academic vs production crypto, mentored by IBM.
Speakers
SE

Stefan Eberle

MSc Computer Science (University of Konstanz), Independent
I am currently student at the university of Konstanz (Germany) and writing my masters thesis in collaboration with IBM about some improvement of a IBM-Z specific OpenSSL functionality. I actually studied to be a teacher, but in the end found my interest in Crypto.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 09:45 CEST
Room 4
  Community, Talk

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

09:30 CEST

Shipping OpenSSL downstream and its challenge
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00 CEST
Distribution maintainers as system integrators: maintaining multiple OpenSSL versions across OS releases while keeping them secure and compatible.
Speakers
PM

Pedro Monreal

Software Engineer - Cryptography, SUSE Software Solutions
Software Engineer at SUSEkey member of the Cryptography Group. As a dedicated maintainer of OpenSSL and other cryptographic libraries. His work also involves participating in FIPS certification rounds for SUSE, where he focuses on the implementation of FIPS requirements... Read More →
LM

Lucas Mülling

Linux Distribution Engineer Cryptography, SUSE Software Solutions
Computer scientist with experience in PKI, protocols, and cryptography. Maintainer for SUSE.
AY

Angel Yankov

Linux Distribution Engineer Cryptography, SUSE Software Solutions
Embedded engineer, transitioned to maintaining cryptographic libraries at SUSE.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00 CEST
Room 3
  Community, Talk

09:45 CEST

Securing the Next Generation: An OpenSSL Youth Outreach Strategy
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:45 - 10:00 CEST
An OpenSSL youth outreach strategy: a sustainable ecosystem also needs informed users who understand what cryptography does for them.
Speakers
CJ

Carla Jedani

-, Individual
Carla Jedani is a lawyer, founder and researcher. She is the founder of a civic engagement platform for Gen Z built on open source, open data and federated governance principles. Her published work reflects more than two decades of engagement with open source principles and their... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:45 - 10:00 CEST
Room 4
  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

Navigating the Post-Quantum Transition: Integrating FAEST and Classic McEliece into libOQS
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Practical challenges and implementation details of integrating FAEST and an updated Classic McEliece into libOQS.
Speakers
NA

Norman Ashley

Software Engineer, Cisco Systems
Software Engineer working crypro libraries at Cisco. Contributor to OQS
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Room 3
  Community, Talk

11:00 CEST

Self-Encrypting Disks in Linux - Fast, Expensive, and Mostly Harmless
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Adding Opal2 self-encrypting drive support to cryptsetup: what we achieved, what we found, and why industry standards miss each other.
Speakers
MB

Milan Brož

Research & Development Manager, OpenSSL Corporation
A grumpy developer and researcher in the area of storage security. Linux cryptsetup and LUKS maintainer. For more info see https://mbroz.fedorapeople.org/talks/
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Talk

13:20 CEST

The State of the OpenSSL Community
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 13:50 CEST
Session details are being finalized with the speakers and will be published here as soon as they are available.
Speakers
avatar for Jon Ericson

Jon Ericson

Communities Manager, OpenSSL Foundation
Jon Ericson is the OpenSSL Foundation Communities Manager. He started his career as a C programmer for the US National Weather Service and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. When Stack Overflow launched in beta, Jon was an early contributor and later joined as a full-time community... Read More →
CW

Chris Ward

Community Manager, OpenSSL Corporation
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 13:50 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Talk

13:20 CEST

Advancing Clarity Through Collaboration
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
The CMUF Request for Guidance Working Group: how government, labs and industry create community-driven guidance for cryptographic modules.
Speakers
TW

Tricia Wolff

Security Reserch Engineer Technical Leader, Cisco Systems, Inc
Tricia Wolff is a Security Research Engineer Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, Inc., serving as an expert in Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). With over a decade of experience in cybersecurity, she shapes cryptographic compliance strategies across Cisco’s global... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Room 3
  Community, Talk

13:20 CEST

The Security Response Process of the OpenSSL Library
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
The history and current state of the OpenSSL Library security response process and policy, including the impact of AI-generated security reports.
Speakers
TM

Tomas Mraz

Chief Technology Officer, OpenSSL Foundation
Tomáš Mráz is the Chief Technology Officer at OpenSSL Foundation and also a member of the Board of Directors of OpenSSL Foundation. He joined the OpenSSL team in 2021 as a Software Developer after being a long-time maintainer of OpenSSL and other crypto packages in Red Hat Enterprise... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Room 4
  Community, Talk

14:00 CEST

Community panel: Distributions
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:50 CEST
A distributions panel on upstream time-to-merge bottlenecks and how upstream, distros and enterprises can share the certification burden.
Speakers
LM

Lucas Mülling

Linux Distribution Engineer Cryptography, SUSE Software Solutions
Computer scientist with experience in PKI, protocols, and cryptography. Maintainer for SUSE.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:50 CEST
Room 3
  Community, Panel

14:20 CEST

Open Source: The Road to EU Sovereignty
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 CEST
The EU's 2026 Open Source Strategy as a sovereignty turning point, and its loopholes, weak enforcement and thin SME support.
Speakers
AG

Alix Guillard

individual, individual
Worked as webmaster for several organisations including leading Linux distribution. Lead the Paris Linux user group before leaving France. Living and working in Czechia as a developer for 12 years.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:20 - 14:50 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Talk

16:10 CEST

Shim in 2026: A Certificate Rotation and a Decade-Overdue OpenSSL Migration
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Shim ships a vendored, long-frozen OpenSSL in every UEFI Secure Boot distro. The story of finally migrating it plus a certificate rotation.
Speakers
avatar for Brian

Brian "bex" Exelbierd

Product Manager, Azure, Microsoft
Brian “bex” Exelbierd is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, where he shapes Azure’s upstream Linux strategy and is the product manager for Flatcar Container Linux. Previously, he spent a decade at Red Hat in roles spanning development, the open source program office... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Room 4
  Community, 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

17:30 CEST

Lessons Learned from Constructing Estonia’s PQC Migration Roadmap
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
National-scale PQC migration: designing a roadmap practical under incomplete visibility, heterogeneous systems, supplier dependencies.
Speakers
JV

Jelizaveta Vakarjuk

Junior Researcher, Cybernetica AS
Jelizaveta is a junior researcher at Cybernetica and a PhD student at Tallinn University of Technology. She has been doing research in post-quantum cryptography, focusing more on cryptographic design of post-quantum threshold signature schemes. Additionally, she is a co-author of... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room 4
  Community, Talk

17:30 CEST

What shall we do with two PKCS#11 providers?
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
openssl-projects' pkcs11-provider vs libp11's new provider: two implementations of the same thing, and the resulting user confusion.
Speakers
avatar for Jakub Jelen

Jakub Jelen

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Everything Smart Cards, PKCS#11 and OpenSSL (mostly from outside).
Wednesday October 14, 2026 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Talk
 
Thursday, October 15
 

11:15 CEST

The Family Reunion: OpenSSL, BoringSSL, AWS-LC, and LibreSSL on Why They Forked and What Happens Now
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
In 2014 after Heartbleed the OpenSSL family split into LibreSSL, BoringSSL, AWS-LC, QuicTLS. A panel on why they forked and what happens now.
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 →
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Panel

14:30 CEST

Student Bug Bounties for OpenSSL-Based Products
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00 CEST
Whether supervised university students can responsibly extend security testing, from integrating bug bounties into a secure-coding course.
Speakers
KM

Kamil Malinka

associate professor, Brno University of Technology
Kamil Malinka is an associate professor at FIT VUT in Brno and head of the Security@FIT research group, which focuses on information technology security. His research focuses primarily on the security aspects of artificial intelligence, such as the risks associated with the misuse... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00 CEST
Room 2
  Community, Talk

16:15 CEST

Breaking Deepfakes with Shared Secrets
Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:55 CEST
Deepfakes attack the human decision layer, not the crypto; a shared-secret approach where passwords, OTP and biometrics fail.
Speakers
JB

Jonathan Bateman

Founder, realxreal.ai | Senior @ RIT, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jonathan Bateman is a secure‑software developer and applied mathematician who blends technical depth with social awareness to solve complex problems. As the founder of Real Recognizes Real AI (realxreal.ai), he helps people authenticate the online identities of their digital contacts... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:55 CEST
Room 3
  Community, Talk

17:00 CEST

OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee
Thursday October 15, 2026 17:00 - 17:50 CEST
The OpenSSL Foundation's community delegates on stage — the newly merged advisory committee (formerly separate Business and Technical Advisory Committees) on guiding the Foundation's mission, priorities, and community representation. Moderated by Jon Ericson.
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
avatar for Jon Ericson

Jon Ericson

Communities Manager, OpenSSL Foundation
Jon Ericson is the OpenSSL Foundation Communities Manager. He started his career as a C programmer for the US National Weather Service and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. When Stack Overflow launched in beta, Jon was an early contributor and later joined as a full-time community... Read More →
BF

Barry Fussell

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 →
SK

Shubham Kumar

The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
avatar for Clemens Lang

Clemens Lang

RHEL Crypto Team Product Owner, Red Hat
Product Owner of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Crypto Team. Resident Post-Quantum Transition Wrangler.
YO

Yi Ouyang

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

Nicola Tuveri

Tampere University
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
avatar for Igor Ustinov

Igor Ustinov

Senior Software Engineer, OpenSSL Foundation
I'm a cryptographer by training with a career spanning applied cryptography in professional software development. I've been working closely with OpenSSL for two decades.
Thursday October 15, 2026 17:00 - 17:50 CEST
Room 1
  Community, Panel
 
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