RightsCon 2021 | Access Now | 7 June 2021 | Online
Venue
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| Event Date | Mon Jun 7 EDT - Fri Jun 11 EDT (over 3 years ago) |
| Location | Online |
| Region | All |
Details
Every year, we bring together business leaders, policy makers, general counsels, advocates, technologists, academics, government representatives, and journalists from around the world to tackle the most pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology.
Speakers
2021 Speakers
Kojo Boakye
Director of Public Policy for Africa, Facebook
Chenie Yoon
Head of Public Policy, Twitter Korea
Agnès Callamard
Secretary General, Amnesty International
Cory Doctorow
Activist, Science Fiction Author, Attack Surface
Fatema Kothari
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Gerard Quinn
U.N. Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
Irene Khan
U.N Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
U.N. Special Rapporteur on the protection of human rights
Jane Coffin
Senior Vice President, Internet Growth, ISOC
Lina al-Hathloul
Saudi activist, sister of Loujain al-Hathloul
Sejal Parmar
Lecturer in Law, University of Sheffield
Catherine Muya
Tech Policy Fellow, Lawyers Hub Kenya
James Alkove
Chief Trust Officer, Salesforce
Eleanor Sarpong
Deputy Director and Policy lead, Alliance for Affordable Internet
Evelyn Douek
Lecturer and SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School
Peace Oliver Amuge
Executive Director, Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
Kishonna Gray
Professor, Author, "Intersectional Tech"
Prof. Changrok Soh
U.N. Human Rights Committee Member
Joan Katambi
Founder and Team Leader, Digital Literacy Initiative (DLI)
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Research Scientist, MIT
Wafa Ali Mustafa
Syrian activist and journalist
Antonio Zappulla
Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Mary Lawlor
U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders
Katie Shay
Head of Privacy Legal & Human Rights, Cisco
Beatriz Busaniche
Director, Fundación Vía Libre
Clint Smith
Chief Legal Officer, Discord
Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen
Denmark’s Tech Ambassador
Jane Horvath
Chief Privacy Officer, Apple
Pedro Vaca
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, IACHR
Carmen Cheung
Executive Director, Center for Justice and Accountability
Cameron F. Kerry
Ann R. & Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Jennifer Stein
Acting Section Chief Internet Freedom and Business and HR, U.S. DOS
Mohamad Najem
Executive Director, SMEX
Hadi Al Khatib
Executive Director of Mnemonic and founder of Syrian Archive
Professor Can Yeginsu
Member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom
Javier Pallero
Policy Director, Access Now
David R. Boyd
U.N. Special Rapporteur on the environment
Waad Al-Kateab
Filmmaker, Activist, Founder of Action For Sama
Professor Kyung-Sin Park
Co-founder and Director of Open Net Korea
Maize Longboat
Producer, Writer, and Game Designer
Clément Voule
U.N. Special Rapporteur Freedom of Association
Osama Manzar
Founder and Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
Yara Sallam
Egyptian feminist and author of Even the Finest of Warriors
Mama Fatima Singhateh
U.N Special Rapporteur on sale and exploitation of children
Julie Owono
Executive Director, Internet Sans Frontières
Mutale Nkonde
Leader, AI for the People
Matthew Prince
Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare
Peggy Hicks
Director, U.N. Human Rights
Gbenga Sesan
Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative
Brett Solomon
Executive Director and Co-Founder, Access Now
Maria Ressa
CEO, Rappler
Miranda Sissons
Human Rights Director, Facebook
Caroline Greer
Director of Public Policy & Government Relations, TikTok
Megha Rajagopalan
International Correspondent, BuzzFeed News
Lene Wendland
Head of Business & Human Rights, UN Human Rights
Deji Olukotun
Director of Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility, Sonos
Sponsors & Partners
2021 Sponsors
• Sida.se
• Microsoft
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
• Google
• Global Affairs Canada
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
• Luminate
• Twitter, Inc.
• german cooperation
• NordVPN
• Facebook
• Amazon.com, Inc.
• Ford Foundation
• Mozilla Corporation
• Filecoin
• Internet Society
• Humanity United
• Wikimedia Foundation, Inc
• Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
• Cloudflare
• Spotify
• Apple Inc.
• Cisco
• Reddit Inc.
• Fenwick & West LLP
• TunnelBear LLC
• Discord
• Shopify
• Centre for International Governance Innovation
• Verizon
• Verizon Media
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
• AT&T Intellectual Property
• VERISIGN
• Zoom Video Communications, Inc.