§ 07 · Host Dinners Mon 12 October · Prague

Three tables.
One night.

— the night before it all begins —

Hosts 3 Hudson · Hook · Caswell
Guest seats 15 Five per table
When 12Oct Mon · 17:30 onwards

Hosts confirmed · rooms announced July · €250 per seat

Come a day early. Eat better than you planned to. Ask the person who wrote the code you run.

17:30

You're met at the door of one of Prague's finest rooms.Your host is already at the table.

The table

Six people, one conversation.No agenda, no speeches — ask anything.

After

A car takes you to the conference opening at the Diplomat.Drinks & conversation.

Tim Hudson
Your host Tim Hudson President, OpenSSL Corporation
Dinner 01 · Mon 12 Oct

Tim Hudson
the first code · the long arc

Ask the man who wrote the first lines. Tim co-wrote SSLeay in the mid-1990s, the codebase the community forked into OpenSSL. He is CTO of Cryptsoft and President of the OpenSSL Corporation. A table small enough that every question gets answered first-hand. How we got here, where we go next.

  • WhenMon 12 Oct · 17:30smart casual · no speeches
  • WhereOne of Prague’s finest roomsannounced July — seat holders hear first
  • MenuIn the chef’s hands — wine on the table
  • AfterA car collects youfor the opening at the Diplomat
Five seatsfirst come · first seated Ticketed separately
€250/ seat Reserve a seat at Tim's table →
David Hook
Your host David Hook Bouncy Castle Inc.
Dinner 02 · Mon 12 Oct

David Hook
Bouncy Castle & the JVM

Twenty-five years of Bouncy Castle, one table, five guests. David's library quietly underpins most of the JVM ecosystem. Java, Kotlin, FIPS-140, the long tail of enterprise crypto. Your questions answered by the maintainer who wrote it.

  • WhenMon 12 Oct · 17:30smart casual · no speeches
  • WhereOne of Prague’s finest roomsannounced July — seat holders hear first
  • MenuIn the chef’s hands — wine on the table
  • AfterA car collects youfor the opening at the Diplomat
Five seatsfirst come · first seated Ticketed separately
€250/ seat Reserve a seat at David's table →
Matt Caswell
Your host Matt Caswell President, OpenSSL Foundation
Dinner 03 · Mon 12 Oct

Matt Caswell
the Foundation & the long view

The long-view table. Matt is President of the OpenSSL Foundation and shipped much of the TLS 1.3 implementation the world now runs. A real conversation about stewardship, governance, and keeping civic infrastructure alive across decades. With room for every question.

  • WhenMon 12 Oct · 17:30smart casual · no speeches
  • WhereOne of Prague’s finest roomsannounced July — seat holders hear first
  • MenuIn the chef’s hands — wine on the table
  • AfterA car collects youfor the opening at the Diplomat
Five seatsfirst come · first seated Ticketed separately
€250/ seat Reserve a seat at Matt's table →
§ 07 · three tables · one Monday evening · fifteen guest seats