Transparency.dev Summit 2025 Schedule

The schedule for the 2025 summit may still undergo small tweaks in the lead up to the event.

Full Schedule
Monday, 20th October
9:00am Registration
10:00am Welcome
10:15am Keynote: To be announced
10:45am Break
11:00am Real-world lessons and insights:
Learning from Certificate Transparency Log Failures - Andrew Ayer
CT: Managing uptime as a CA - Matthew McPherrin
⚡ How Chrome monitors CT logs - Mustafa Emre Acer
⚡ Monitoring Brand Logos through Certificate Transparency - Bhushan Lokhande
⚡ When things go bad: real world breakage from a transparency library misconfiguration - Joe DeBlasio
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Operations and new developments:
⚡ Android Certificate Transparency - Roger Ng
⚡ HelioTorrent: Serving Static CT over BitTorrent - Dennis Jackson
Running production-grade logs safely with Tessera - Philippe Boneff, Roger Ng
Merkle Tree Certificates: transparency as the root of trust for the post-quantum age - Joe DeBlasio
3:20pm Introducting breakout sessions
3:30pm Swedish fika
4:00pm Breakout sessions and collective summary
5:00pm Efficient and effective monitoring:
⚡ silentct: A Certificate Transparency monitor that filters out the noise - Rasmus Dahlberg
Verifiable Indexes for a More Usable Transparency Ecosystem - Martin Hutchinson
5:40pm Closing remarks
Evening Free time
Tuesday, 21st October
9:00am Welcome
9:10am Hardware-backed approaches:
Transparent transparency hardware - Fredrik Stromberg
Confidential computing: Trusted computing in the cloud - Adit Sachde
10:10am Website Transparency:
Let’s Make the Internet an App Store (but not in the dystopian way) - Michael Rosenberg, Dennis Jackson
⚡ A decentralized integrity and transparency model for web applications - Giulio Berra
10:50am Break
11:20am Package management:
Go module notifications with gopherwatch.org, and more! - Mechiel Lukkien
End-to-End Transparent Package Registries - Hayden Blauzvern
⚡ Reproducible Builds, a very brief summary of the last 12 years and a glimpse into the future - Holger Levsen
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Breakout sessions and collective summary
3:20pm Identity systems:
⚡ Transparency in Digital ID Systems - Alexis Hancock
3:30pm Swedish fika
4:00pm Binary/Firmware Transparency:
Implementing transparency in UEFI boot managers - Andrea Barisani, Daniele Bianco
Binary Transparency via Endorsements - Tom Binder
Crescendo: Increasing the intensity of binary transparency in the Android ecosystem - Billy Lau
⚡ ent: a protocol for distributed Content Addressable Storage - Tiziano Santoro
5:40pm Closing remarks
Evening Social dinner at Restaurant Tegel (within walking distance of venue)
Wednesday, 22nd October
9:20am Welcome
9:30am Key Transparency:
Key Transparency: Introduction, recent results, and active research areas - Melissa Chase
⚡ Key Transparency / When Collusion-Based Security Fails - Brendan McMillion
⚡ Split-View protection in centralised transparency logs - Elena Pagnin
10:30am Break
10:45am Quiz
11:30am Lightning talks (unscheduled / signup during the conference)
12:15pm Close