Your host Tim Hudson · Founder & President, OpenSSL Corporation
Dinner 01 · Mon 12 Oct · venue firms up by June

Tim Hudson
the first code · the long arc

Tim co-wrote SSLeay with Eric Young in the mid-1990s — the cryptographic library that, after they joined RSA in 1998, was forked and continued by the community as OpenSSL. Without that original codebase there would be no OpenSSL. Tim co-founded Cryptsoft and is now Founder & President of the OpenSSL Corporation. His table is for the "how did we get here" story told first-hand by one of the people who wrote the first lines — and the "where do we go from here" question asked seriously.

  • When19:30 — late · ~3 hours
  • MenuFive courses, paired
  • ToneSmart casual · no speeches
5 of 5 guest seats open Add-on · set spring 2026
Your host David Hook · Bouncy Castle · Keyfactor
Dinner 02 · Mon 12 Oct · venue firms up by June

David Hook
Bouncy Castle & the JVM

David has run Bouncy Castle for twenty-five years. His library quietly underpins most of the JVM ecosystem. Java, Kotlin, FIPS-140 in JVM-land, and the long tail of enterprise crypto — on the menu with the maintainer who wrote it.

  • When19:30 — late · ~3 hours
  • MenuFive courses, paired
  • ToneSmart casual · no speeches
5 of 5 guest seats open Add-on · set spring 2026
Your host Matt Caswell · President, OpenSSL Foundation
Dinner 03 · Mon 12 Oct · venue firms up by June

Matt Caswell
the Foundation & the long view

Matt is President of the OpenSSL Foundation and has shipped much of the TLS 1.3 implementation the world now runs. His table is for a conversation about stewardship, governance, and what it takes to keep civic infrastructure alive across decades. The long-view room, for the long-view conversation.

  • When19:30 — late · ~3 hours
  • MenuFive courses, paired
  • ToneSmart casual · no speeches
5 of 5 guest seats open Add-on · set spring 2026
§ 07 · three Monday tables · one evening · fifteen guest seats in total · advance sign-up, first come