RightsCon 2020 - Costa Rica | Access Now | 9 June 2020 | Virtual Event

What to Expect at RightsCon?

Every participant’s RightsCon experience is a little different, with endless opportunities to make the event your own. Get a sense of what the experience was like at RightsCon Tunis in this video. Everyone who joins our community can expect:

• Showcase
Meet with people from every corner of the world working to protect and extend our human rights.
• Learn
Attend workshops and skill-building seminars with the world’s leading experts.
• Showcase
Get feedback on your latest report, find new members for your coalition, or present a tech tool.
• Recharge
Take advantage of unconference space to relax and unplug.
• Solve Problems
Map solutions to complex problems and find partners to help put them into action.
• Set Norms
Influence policy making and contribute to priority setting in the public and private sectors.

20202 Speakers

María Paz Canales
Executive Director, Derechos Digitales

Zeynep Tufekci
Writer, Professor, and Techno-Sociologist

Dragana Kaurin
Founder and Director, Localization Lab

Matthew Prince
Co-Founder and CEO of CloudFlare

Michelle Bachelet
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Tarcila Rivera Zea
President, FIMI and Vice President, CHIRAPAQ

Nanjala Nyabola
Writer and Political Analyst

Mohamed al-Maskati
Digital Security Consultant, Frontline Defenders

Edward Snowden
Board Member, Freedom of the Press Foundation

Rawya Rageh
Senior Crisis Adviser, Amnesty International

Steve Huffman
CEO and Co-Founder, Reddit

Kathy Brown
Former President and CEO, ISOC

Steve Crown
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft

E. Tendayi Achiume
UN Special Rapporteur on Racism and Racial Discrimination

Nathaniel Gleicher
Head of Cybersecurity Policy, Facebook

Gideon Lichfield
Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review

Kathryn Hume
Vice President, Product & Strategy, integrate.ai

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin
Chair, CNIL (French Data Protection Authority)

Alix Dunn
Former Executive Director, The Engine Room

Salil Shetty
Former Secretary General at Amnesty International

Harlem Désir
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Noomane Fehri
CEO, BiatLabs

Matt Chessen
Senior Technology Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of State

Uri Rosenthal
Special Envoy for Cyberspace and Former Foreign Minister, Netherlands

Michel Forst
UN Special Rapporteur, Situation of Human Rights Defenders

Alex Walden
Counsel, Free Expression and Human Rights, Google

Clément Voule
UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Assembly and Association

Mikael Ekman
Interim Tech Ambassador of Denmark

Julie Owono
Executive Director, Internet Sans Frontières

Dunja Mijatović
Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe

Michael Geist
Professor, University of Ottawa

David Kaye
UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression

Binalakshmi Nepram
Founder, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network

Edward Santow
Human Rights Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission

Japleen Prasicha
Founder & Editor-In-Chief, Feminism In India

Débora Diniz
Deputy Director, International Planned Parenthood Federation / WHR

Marc-Etienne Ouimette
Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, Element AI

Agnès Callamard
UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions

Peggy Hicks
Director, United Nations Human Rights

Jim Halloran
Global Lead, Strategy, Policy, and Narrative, Google

Sunita Bose
Former Head of Policy and Global Brand, Change.org

Rauno Merisaari
Ambassador, Human Rights and Democracy, Finland

Alp Toker
Executive Director, Turkey Blocks

John Graham-Cumming
Chief Technology Officer, Cloudflare

Jackeline Stewart
Former Vice President, Spitfire Strategies

Rebecca MacKinnon
Director, Ranking Digital Rights

Melissa Tidwell
Vice President & General Counsel, Reddit

Mario Oetheimer
Head of Sector Information Society, Privacy and Data Protection, EU FRA

Antonio Zappulla
CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF)

Ei Myat Noe Khin
Digital Rights Program Manager, Phandeeyar

Ron Deibert
Director, Citizen Lab

Nighat Dad
Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation

Hillary Hartley
Chief Digital Officer, Province of Ontario

Lea Kaspar
Executive Director, Global Partners Digital

Carmelyn Malalis
Chair and Commissioner, NY City Commission on Human Rights

Tara Denham
Director, Democracy Unit, Global Affairs Canada

Gabriella Coleman
Wolfe Chair Scientific & Technological Literacy, McGill

Brett Solomon
Executive Director and Co-Founder, Access Now

Gbenga Sesan
Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative

Rodrigo de la Parra
Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, ICANN

Dubravka Šimonovic
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women

Rohinton Medhora
President, Centre for International Governance Innovation

Renu Mandhane
Chief Commissioner, Ontario Human Rights of Ontario

Lilian Edwards
Professor of Law, Innovation, and Society, Newcastle University

Cindy Cohn
Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Milton Mueller
Professor, Georgia Tech School of Public Policy

Uffa Modey
Co-Founder, Digital Grassroots

Thomas Drake
Whistleblower

Eva Galperin
Director, Cybersecurity, lectronic Frontier Foundation

Maryam Al-Khawaja
Bahraini Human Rights Activist

Scott Busby
Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State

Jen Castro
Program Coordinator, Digital Democracy

Cathleen Berger
Global Engagement Lead, Mozilla

Ramy Raoof
Technologist and Privacy Researcher

Deborah Brown
Global Policy Advocacy Lead, APC

Michael Posner
Director, NYU Stern Center for Business & Human Rights

Nicole Karlebach
Global Head, Business and Human Rights, Verizon and Verizon Media

Deji Bryce Olukotun
Head of Social Impact, Sonos

Bassem Awad
Deputy Director for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation, CIGI

Mark Surman
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation

Sam Gregory
Program Director, WITNESS

Avery Davis-Roberts
Associate Director, Democracy Program, The Carter Center

Kaja Ciglic
Director, Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft

Fabrice Houdart
Human Rights Officer, United Nations

Lorena Jaume-Palasi
Founder & Executive Director, AlgorithmWatch

Courtney C. Radsch
Advocacy Director, Committee to Protect Journalists

Megha Rajagopalan
World Correspondent, BuzzFeed News

Tanya O’Carroll
Director, Global Tech & Human Rights Programme, Amnesty International

Matt Mitchell
Director, Digital Safety & Privacy, Tactical Tech

An Xiao Mina
Director of Product, Meedan

Chenai Chair
Researcher, Research ICT Africa

Mira Milosevic
Executive Director, Global Forum for Media Development

Maryant Fernandez Perez
Senior Policy Advisor, European Digital Rights (EDRi)

Anahi Ayala Iacucci
Senior Humanitarian Director, Internews

Ursula Wynhoven
Representative to the United Nations, ITU

Hans de Zwart
Executive Director, Bits of Freedom

Ann Cavoukian
Former Three-Term Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

Bertrand De La Chapelle
Executive Director, Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network

Sandro Gianella
Head, EMEA Policy, Stripe

Katie McInnis
Policy Counsel, Consumer Reports

2020 Sponsors

• Sweden
• Google
• Microsoft
• Luminate
• Mozilla
• twitter
• NordVPN
• LCOUDFLARE
• HUMANITY UNITED
• cisco
• AT&T
• reddit
• BT