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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
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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
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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
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Room 1
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
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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
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
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Room 1
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
17:30 CEST
09:00 CEST
OpenSSL Corporation Keynote
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 CEST
Speakers
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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Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:00 - 09:30
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Room 1
09:30 CEST
Nobody Told Maintainers They Were Saving The World. Now Is The Time.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00 CEST
Speakers RZ
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...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 09:30 - 10:00
CEST
Room 1
10:30 CEST
TLS keyshare caching for faster handshakes
Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Speakers PK
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...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 10:30 - 11:00
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Room 1
11:00 CEST
11:30 CEST
Bill Buchanan — Session Title Coming Soon
Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Speakers
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...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 11:30 - 12:00
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Room 1
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
Speakers MK
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...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 13:20 - 14:00
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Room 1
14:00 CEST
Daniel J. Bernstein — Session Title Coming Soon
Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Speakers
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...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 14:00 - 14:40
CEST
Room 1
15:30 CEST
PLANTS and Merkle Tree Certificates
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 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.
Wednesday October 14, 2026 15:30 - 16:10
CEST
Room 1
16:10 CEST
Why People Trust the Internet but Ignore What Protects It
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50 CEST
Speakers BP
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...
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Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:10 - 16:50
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Room 1
16:50 CEST
OpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel
Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:50 CEST
Speakers RB
Nexbridge
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
DB
Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Stockholm syndrome with OpenSSL
NG
Technical University of Munich
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
JJ
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
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...
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HPE
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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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Community Manager, OpenSSL Corporation
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
PY
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.
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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Wednesday October 14, 2026 16:50 - 17:50
CEST
Room 1
09:00 CEST
OpenSSL Foundation — Delivering the Mission
Thursday October 15, 2026 09:00 - 09:35 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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Thursday October 15, 2026 09:00 - 09:35
CEST
Room 1
10:30 CEST
Tanja Lange — Session Title Coming Soon
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:10 CEST
Speakers
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology
Prof Dr. Tanja Lange joined Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) as full professor in 2006. Her work bridges the gaps between algebraic geometry, theoretical cryptography, and real-world information security. She is an expert on curve-based cryptography and post-quantum cryptography...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:10
CEST
Room 1
11:15 CEST
The Case for Binding and Embedding – Many Modules One Validation
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
Speakers TW
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...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 11:15 - 11:55
CEST
Room 1
13:20 CEST
Agentic AI in security operations, liability when the agent acts
Thursday October 15, 2026 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Speakers
Partner, Thomson Geer Lawyers
With both law and IT qualifications, Hayden has a deep understanding of the technology and digital economy sector. Hayden can quickly grasp how both new and established technologies impact a client’s legal and commercial risks, and also how it can transform a business. He is sought...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 13:20 - 14:00
CEST
Room 1
14:00 CEST
Performance: The little sibling of cryptography
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 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
I am an open source veteran of the last 25 years, working initially on the network stack in the linux kernel, and some cryptographic primitives, more recently working witht he OpenSSL corporation, focused on my favorite thing, but fixing and performance.
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:00 - 14:30
CEST
Room 1
14:30 CEST
The Cost of Stunt Cryptography
Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00 CEST
Speakers
Founder and Maintainer, cryptlib
Peter Gutmann is a researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland working on design and analysis of cryptographic security architectures, security usability, and embedded systems security. He helped write the popular PGP encryption package, has authored...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 14:30 - 15:00
CEST
Room 1
15:30 CEST
Beyond copyright: IP strategy in the age of generative AI
Thursday October 15, 2026 15:30 - 16:10 CEST
Speakers
Partner, Thomson Geer Lawyers
With both law and IT qualifications, Hayden has a deep understanding of the technology and digital economy sector. Hayden can quickly grasp how both new and established technologies impact a client’s legal and commercial risks, and also how it can transform a business. He is sought...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 15:30 - 16:10
CEST
Room 1
16:15 CEST
What's behind the MASQUE
Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:55 CEST
Speakers YR
Chief Scientist, Zscaler
Yaroslav Rosomakho is Chief Scientist at Zscaler, where he leads research and innovation in secure networking, infrastructure resiliency, protocol design, and post-quantum cryptography. He is an IAB member and an active contributor to the IETF, currently chairing the HPKE and SEAT...
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Thursday October 15, 2026 16:15 - 16:55
CEST
Room 1
17:00 CEST
OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee
Thursday October 15, 2026 17:00 - 17:50 CEST
Speakers RB
Nexbridge
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
DB
Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Stockholm syndrome with OpenSSL
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...
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The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
AK
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...
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The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
RHEL Crypto Team Product Owner, Red Hat
Product Owner of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Crypto Team. Resident Post-Quantum Transition Wrangler.
YO
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NT
Tampere University
The speaker's biography is being finalized and will be published here shortly.
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