Foundation talks at the OpenSSL Conference 2026

It's almost time for the second annual OpenSSL Conference in Prague. Whether you are getting your bags packed for a transcontinental flight or already in Czechia, now is a great time to start thinking about which talks you will attend. The OpenSSL Foundation  will be on stage throughout the conference and we hope you will consider some of our talks.

Matt Caswell

Our Executive Director will be especially busy this year:

• He will share the stage with the founders of SSLeay, Eric A. Young and Tim Hudson, to start the conference on Tuesday at 9:20: Three Decades of OpenSSL: A Leadership Conversation.
• At 16:05, he will give a technical talk: OpenSSL's TLS Implementation: Inside the State Machine and Record Layer
• On Thursday Matt will review the past year and look to the future of the project: OpenSSL Foundation — Delivering the Mission
• For a select few, Matt will be hosting a table on the Monday before the conference.

Tomáš Mráz

Tomáš is the Foundation's Chief Technology Officer and he will be presenting The Security Response Process of the OpenSSL Library on Thursday at 9:30.

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Jon Ericson

Jon is the Foundation's Communities Manager and will be joined by his counterpart with the OpenSSL Corporation to talk about The State of the OpenSSL Community. Jon will also moderate the OpenSSL Foundation Advisory Committee panel.

Daniel Kubec

Daniel is a senior software engineer with the Foundation and on Wednesday at 17:30 he will discuss:  Zero-Overhead Cryptography in OpenSSL-Powered Network Stack.

Ryan Hooper

Ryan splits time between being on staff at the Foundation and Cisco. He will be talking about DTLS 1.3 in OpenSSL on Wednesday at 15:30.

Clemens Lang

Clemens represents the Distributions community on the Foundation Advisory Committee (FAC). He will be speaking about Instrumenting OpenSSL with Crypto-Auditing Probes for Post-Quantum Readiness on Tuesday at 17:00. He will also be on the FAC panel on Thursday at 17:00.

Carla Jedani‍

Carla is a newly elected representative to the FAC from the Individuals community. She will be speaking on Wednesday at 9:45: Securing the Next Generation: An OpenSSL Youth Outreach Strategy‍

Dmitry Belyavskiy

Dmitry is also on the FAC and is on the schedule several times:

• Community panel: Distributions on Wednesday at 14:20.
• At 16:40 later that day: OpenSSL Corporation Business & Technical Advisory Committees Panel.

• On Thursday at 10:30: From OpenSSL 3 to OpenSSL 4 in Fedora: true story.

Jelizaveta Vakarjuk

Jelizaveta is a junior researcher at Cybernetica and a PhD student at Tallinn University of Technology. She is also the designer of Post-Quantum Trails, the board game that every conference attendee will receive as a gift from the OpenSSL Foundation. On Wednesday at 17:30 she will be presenting: Lessons Learned from Constructing Estonia’s PQC Migration Roadmap.

Stop by and say "Hi!"

Come by the Rome room at the conference hotel to meet Foundation staff, get your copy of the game and maybe try it out with the designer! Also, add talks to your schedule so you won't miss them. Hope to see you there!