Authentication Security Events

Join developers and security specialists throughout 2025 as we explore authentication challenges, share practical solutions, and build systems that actually protect users. Real problems, real discussions, real learning.

Upcoming Sessions

We're running several focused sessions this year. Each one tackles specific authentication issues that developers face when building secure systems. Registration opens six weeks before each event.

September 14, 2025

Token Management Workshop

Three hours dedicated to JWT implementation, refresh token strategies, and handling token expiration. We'll work through actual code samples and debug common mistakes together.

  • Live coding session with real authentication flows
  • Q&A with developers who've solved these problems
  • Hands-on debugging exercises
  • Limited to 40 participants for meaningful interaction
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October 22, 2025

OAuth Implementation Deep Dive

OAuth2 and OpenID Connect confuse a lot of developers. This session walks through building a complete OAuth flow from scratch, including the parts that documentation often skips.

  • Build a working OAuth provider step by step
  • Security considerations nobody mentions
  • Testing strategies for authentication flows
  • Afternoon session with breaks for questions
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December 8, 2025

Multi-Factor Authentication Patterns

Adding MFA without making users miserable is tricky. This workshop covers TOTP, SMS backup codes, and recovery flows that don't leave people locked out of their accounts.

  • Implementing TOTP with actual code examples
  • Recovery mechanisms that balance security and usability
  • Testing MFA flows in development
  • Morning session with practical exercises
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January 19, 2026

Session Management Best Practices

How you handle sessions matters as much as your login flow. This session covers session storage, timeout strategies, and preventing common session-based attacks.

  • Redis vs database session storage trade-offs
  • Handling concurrent sessions across devices
  • Session fixation and hijacking prevention
  • Afternoon workshop with code review
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Developers collaborating on authentication code during workshop session

How Our Workshops Actually Work

These aren't lecture-style presentations. You'll spend most of your time working with code, asking questions, and solving problems alongside other developers who are dealing with similar authentication challenges.

What to Expect

  • Bring your laptop with your development environment ready
  • Small groups allow everyone to participate and ask specific questions
  • We provide code repositories and testing environments
  • Sessions include breaks and time for one-on-one help
  • Leave with working examples you can adapt for your projects

Registration typically fills up within two weeks. We send reminder emails with setup instructions about ten days before each session. All workshops run in Tainan, but we're planning remote options for early 2026.

Previous Events

Over the past year, we've hosted several focused sessions on authentication topics. Here's what we covered and what participants learned from each one.

March 2025

Password Security Workshop

We spent an afternoon discussing password hashing algorithms, salt generation, and pepper usage. Lots of questions about bcrypt vs Argon2, which led to some interesting performance testing.

32 Participants
4.5hrs Session Length
Workshop participants reviewing password hashing implementation on screens
November 2024

API Authentication Strategies

This session focused on API keys, bearer tokens, and signature-based authentication. Several participants were building microservices and had great questions about service-to-service authentication.

28 Participants
3.5hrs Session Length
Group discussion about API authentication patterns and implementation

Session Leaders

Our workshops are led by developers who've spent years implementing authentication systems and debugging the problems that come with them. They share what actually works, not just what sounds good in documentation.

Portrait of Linnea Virtanen, authentication systems developer

Linnea Virtanen

Senior Security Developer

Linnea has been building authentication systems for fintech applications since 2018. She's dealt with everything from basic login flows to complex multi-tenant authorization. Her sessions focus on practical implementation details that documentation often glosses over.

Portrait of Brynn Calloway, authentication architecture specialist

Brynn Calloway

Authentication Architect

Brynn specializes in OAuth and OpenID Connect implementations. She's helped migrate several legacy authentication systems to modern protocols and knows where all the edge cases hide. Her workshops emphasize testing strategies and debugging techniques.