Transparency.dev Summit 2026 Schedule

The schedule for the 2026 summit may still undergo small tweaks in the lead up to the event.
All times are in local Montreal time i.e. EDT (UTC/GMT-4)

Full Schedule
Tuesday, 29th September
9:00am - 10am Arrival and registration
10:00am Welcome and opening remarks
10:15am Welcome, Transparency overview & Getting started with MTCs — Martin Hutchinson, Rasmus Dahlberg, & Joe DeBlasio
10:45am Break
11:00am Transparency Log Developments from MTCs - David Benjamin (Google Chrome)
How Let's Encrypt is deploying Merkle Tree Certificates - Matthew McPherrin (Let's Encrypt)
Deploying MTCs at CDN Scale - Luke Valenta (Cloudflare)
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm MTC support is only step 1: How Chrome will protect all users from quantum attackers - Joe DeBlasio (Google Chrome)
⚡ Nobody Can Lint a Merkle Tree Certificate Yet - Corey Bonnell (TurboLight Solutions)
⚡ Project Hail Merkle - MTCs: a new way for PKI and Trust Services - Jan Klaussner (Bundesdruckerei GmbH)
⚡ MTC Revocation Status (MTCRS) - Rob Stradling (Sectigo)
3:15pm Break
3:45pm Breakout sessions and summaries
5:30pm Closing remarks
6:00pm - 9:00pm Evening reception
Wednesday, 30th September
9:00am - 9:25am Arrival and badge collection
9:25am Welcome
9:30am ⚡ Google's Transparency Log Witnessing Programme - Ben Birt (Google)
⚡ Setting Thresholds in Witness Cosigning - Lucia Lavagnino (Chalmers University)
⚡ LogCabin: a split-view resistant ledger as a t-log witness - Ernesto Ocampo (Google DeepMind)
Trusting Third Parties: transparency systems with designated auditors - Tjaden Hess (Trail of Bits)
10:45am Break
11:00am So, you want to deploy Key Transparency? - Brendan McMillion
Operation Transparency for Encrypted Spaces - Trevor Perrin (Encrypted Spaces Foundation)
⚡ Verifiable Index: from prototype to production architecture - Martin Hutchinson (Google)
⚡ tlog-addenda: an adoptable standard for log-adjacent data, mirroring, and redaction too! - Eric Myhre (Geomys)
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Breakout sessions and summaries
3:30pm Break
4:00pm Sostenuto: Scaling & Sustaining Android Binary Transparency - Billy Lau (Google)
When Every Retry Matters: Tamper-Evident Passkey Recovery at Internet Scale - Joe Linscott (Microsoft)
⚡ Archive Transparency - Matthieu Daumas
⚡ Git-ratchet: tooling for Git commit transparency - Ben Birt (Google)
5:30pm Closing remarks
Evening Free Time
Thursday, 1st October
9:00am - 9:25am Arrival and badge collection
9:25am Welcome
9:30am Simplicity through Transparency: How the PQC Migration is Streamlining Sigstore - Hayden Blauzvern (Google)
⚡ The diff between sigsum/v1 and sigsum/v2? - Rasmus Dahlberg (Glasklar Teknik)
The TKey sign-if-logged tool - Niels Möller (Glasklar Teknik)
10:45am Break
11:00am Quiz
11:45am Lightning talks (unscheduled / signup during the conference)
12:30pm Close