María Paz Canales

Executive Director, Derechos Digitales

Maria Paz Canales is a Chilean antitrust lawyer and UC Berkeley Master of Laws with a Certificate of Specialization in Law and Technology. She is the Executive Director of Derechos Digitales.

Shoshana Zuboff

Author, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"

Clément Voule

UN Special Rapporteur Freedom of Association

Nanjala Nyabola

Writer and Political Analyst

Audrey Tang

Digital Minister, Taiwan

E. Tendayi Achiume

UN Special Rapporteur, Racism & Discrimination

Fabrizio Hochschild

Special Adviser, United Nations 75th Anniversary

William Cathcart

Head, WhatsApp

Darrah Blackwater

Indigenous Connectivity Advocate

Brad Smith

President, Microsoft

Behrouz Boochani

Author, Journalist, Professor, University of New South Wales

Anthony D. Romero

Executive Director, ACLU

Edison Lanza

Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression

Rashad Robinson

President, Color Of Change

Derrick Johnson

President & CEO, NAACP

Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein

Former UN High Commissioner, Human Rights

Mikael Ekman

Interim Tech Ambassador of Denmark

Binalakshmi Nepram

Founder, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network

Niklas Zennström

CEO, Atomico & Co-founder, Skype

Mutale Nkonde

CEO of AI for the People

David Kaye

UN Special Rapporteur, Freedom of Expression

Prof. Kaye’s scholarship and teaching focus on public international law, especially international human rights law, international humanitarian law, accountability for violations of human rights, and the law governing the use of force. He is just as interested in efforts to translate international law—especially human rights law—in a domestic American context, whether in courts, legislatures, or the executive branches of government, at federal and state levels.Prof. Kaye has been appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to serve as Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, effective August 1, 2014, for three years. With the assistance of students in his International Justice Clinic, Prof. Kaye will report to the UN on some of the key issues in free expression worldwide, such as the safety of journalists, severe restrictions placed on Internet access and usage, the chilling effects of electronic surveillance, hate speech and incitement to violence. Prof. Kaye began his legal career with the U.S. State Department, handling such subjects as international claims, nuclear nonproliferation, international humanitarian law, and accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Prior to joining UC Irvine, he co-founded UCLA’s International Human Rights Program and founded its International Justice Clinic, working on projects dealing with accountability for international crimes around the world. In addition to his scholarship and teaching, Professor Kaye is an active member of the American Society of International Law, for which he served on its Executive Council and Executive Committee, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also published essays and opinion pieces in mainstream publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. As a clinical teacher, Professor Kaye aims to help students discover and put to use tools to advocate for implementation of human rights law and accountability for serious violations and to assist those worldwide who are looking to build the rule of law in their own countries. He also believes in scholarship that helps advance our understanding of how international law operates—and in translating that scholarship, as much as possible, to the broader public and policymaking communities.

Margaret Richardson

Vice President of Trust, Airbnb

Rashida Richardson

Director of Policy Research, AI Now Institute; Visiting Scholar, Rutgers Law

Rebecca Masisak

CEO, Tech Soup

Ingrid Beck

Journalist, Founder #NiUnaMenos

Uttara Sivaram

Global Head of Privacy & Security Public Policy, Uber

Alexis Ohanian

Venture Capitalist, Co-Founder of Reddit & Initialized Capital

Lacida Koné

Director General and CEO, SMART AFRICA

Jessica Rosenworcel

Federal Communications Commissioner

Charles Mok

IT Legislator, Hong Kong's Legislative Council

Nighat Dad

Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation

Nighat Dad is the Executive Director of Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan. She is an accomplished lawyer and a human rights activist.Nighat Dad is one of the pioneers who have been campaigning around access to open internet in Pakistan and globally. She has been actively campaigning and engaging at a policy level on issues focusing on Internet Freedom, Women and technology, Digital Security and Women’s empowerment. Ms.Dad has been recently included in Next Generation Leaders List by TIME's magazine for her work on helping women fight online harassment.

Moses Owiny

Technical Advisor, Rural Development, GIZ

Gbenga Sesan

Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative

Gbenga Sesan is the Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative. Originally trained as an Electronic & Electrical Engineer at Obafemi Awolowo University, Gbenga completed Executive Education programs at Lagos Business School, New York Group for Technology Transfer, Oxford University, Harvard University, Stanford University, Santa Clara University and University of the Pacific. His consulting experience includes assignments completed for numerous institutions, including Microsoft, Harvard University and United Nations agencies, among others, in over 30 countries. A Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2014) and former member of the United Nations Committee of eLeaders on Youth and ICT, he is a CyberStewards Fellow, Crans Montana Forum Fellow, Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, Our Common Future Fellow and Cordes Fellow. Gbenga served as a member of the Presidential committees on Harmonization of Information Technology, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Sectors (2006) and Roadmap for the Achievement of Accelerated Universal Broadband Infrastructure and Services Provision (2013), and was listed by CNN as one of the Top 10 African Tech Voices on Twitter and by Ventures Africa as one of 40 African Legends Under 40.

Stéphane Duguin

CEO, CyberPeace Institute

Jasmina Byrne

Chief of Policy, UNICEF

Maria Ressa

CEO, Rappler

Cindy Cohn

Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000-2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel. Ms. Cohn first became involved with EFF in 1993, when EFF asked her to serve as the outside lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: "[I]f Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn." She was also named in 2006 for "rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online." In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2010 the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California awarded her its Intellectual Property Vanguard Award and in 2012 the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded her the James Madison Freedom of Information Award.

Evan Greer

Deputy Director, Fight for the Future

Luis Fernando García Muñoz

Executive Director, R3D

Miranda Sissons

Human Rights Director, Facebook

Margarette May Macaulay

Rapporteur on the Rights of Woman, IACHR

Kai Hermsen

Co-founder TWINDS Foundations

Henri Verdier

Ambassador for Digital Affairs, France

Maike Luiken

IEEE Vice President–Elect

Cécile Aptel

Acting Under-Secretary General for Partnership, IFRC

Alexa Koenig

Executive Director, Human Rights Center

Rosa van den Beemt

VP, Responsible Investment Analyst BMO Global Asset Management

Pat Kane

Senior VP, Verisign Naming & Registry Services

Beeban Kidron

House of Lords, British Filmmaker

Alissa Starzak

Head of Public Policy at Cloudflare

Ulf Buermeyer

President, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte

Uri Rosenthal

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands