On the road in North Carolina
In mid-November, OpenSSL Foundation staff will be on the road in North Carolina, and we’d love to see you there!
Join us on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at the All Things Open Meet-up where Foundation President Matt Caswell will speak on open source post-quantum cryptography.
Following Matt’s introduction to the topic, he’ll facilitate a panel discussion with local experts, including:
- Jai Arun, Head of Product Management & Strategy, Quantum Safe and Crypto-Agility Products, IBM Software
- Aydin Aysu, Associate Professor, University Faculty Scholar, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, North Carolina State University
- Scott Fluhrer, Principal Engineer, Cisco
- Panos Kampanakis, Principal Security Engineer, AWS
This event takes place on November 18 at 6:30 - 8:30pm and will be hosted at Cisco’s Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus. Doors open at 6:00pm. Learn more about the event and register here.
In addition to this free, public event, the Foundation also will be visiting with some local universities to build more relationships between the Foundation and the academic community that features so prominently in our mission. We’ll be meeting with faculty and students at both the graduate and undergraduate level, answering their questions about the OpenSSL project and inviting their engagement. We are grateful to the Secure Computing Institute at North Carolina State University and the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for welcoming us to their campuses!
To round our visit, we’ll be meeting with the Foundation’s generous corporate sponsors in the area – including Cisco and NetApp – for engineering meetings, tech talks, and more. Sponsors like these provide the critical funding we need for our ongoing operations and we look forward to their feedback, questions, and suggestions.
This is our first such “Foundation Tour,” doing outreach and engagement across a single geographical region over several days of meetings and events. It’s our hope that tours like these will help foster and grow the OpenSSL community while also raising awareness for the vital role of the OpenSSL Foundation in maintaining the OpenSSL project and community. As a nonprofit organization that relies entirely on donations and sponsorship, it’s vital that we grow our community in every way, from code contributors and non-technical volunteers to academic researchers and donors.
If you’re in central North Carolina and would like to meet up while we’re in town, please reach out to Amy Parker. And should you have another city to suggest for a future Foundation Tour, let us know that too!
Image: Leslie Cross for Unsplash.