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Tuesday, October 13
 

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
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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 →
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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
 
Wednesday, October 14
 

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
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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

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
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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
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Nikolas Gauder

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

HPE
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
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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 →
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Chris Ward

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

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
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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 →
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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.
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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.
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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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