Join us in South Korea for the 13th edition of the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age
Help us shape RightsCon South Korea
A global leader in technology innovation with a vibrant civil society, South Korea offers a dynamic environment to convene and engage our community. Our first-ever summit in East Asia, and the second in the Asia Pacific region, RightsCon South Korea will address the most pressing local, regional, and global issues at the intersection of human rights and technology. Read our blog post to learn more about how and why we chose South Korea.
We want to build RightsCon South Korea together with you – the RightsCon Community. We’re hosting a series of consultation calls over the next several weeks to learn more about your experiences and gather feedback and suggestions for the future of RightsCon.
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The RightsCon Community
RightsCon offers a platform for thousands of participants around the world to convene, connect, and contribute to a shared agenda for the future. Join our global community of business leaders, activists, technologists, policymakers, journalists, philanthropists, researchers, and artists, and explore opportunities to advance human rights in the digital age.
37,000+
participants
in 12 years
17,000+
civil society participants
2,000+
government officials
4,000+
private sector participants
Meet a few of the organizations who join us year-after-year
For over a decade, we’ve welcomed leaders from around the world
RightsCon features prominent voices from companies, governments, foundations, think tanks, civil society organizations, universities, and international institutions. Check out a small selection of the experts that joined us throughout the last 12 years.
RightsCon speakers have included
Amandeep Singh Gill
United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology
Timnit Gebru
Founder and Executive Director, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR)
Clint Smith
Chief Legal Officer, Discord
Jacinda Ardern
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Will Cathcart
Head of Whatsapp, Meta
Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen
Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Denmark
Kent Walker
President, Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet
Meredith Whittaker
President, Signal
Pedro Vaca Villareal
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Nabiha Syed
CEO, The Markup
Brad Smith
President, Microsoft
Irene Khan
United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion
Paola Vega Castillo
Minister, Science, Technology and Telecommunications, Government of Costa Rica
Erika Cheung
Theranos Whistleblower; Executive Director, Ethics in Entrepreneurship
Emel Mathlouthi
Tunisian Musician, Producer, and Activist, “The Tunis Diaries”
Valeriia Ionan
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Digital Transformation, Government of Ukraine
Tawana Petty
Director of Community, Algorithmic Justice League
Samantha Power
Administrator, United States Agency for International Development
John Githongo
CEO, Inuka
Maria Ressa
Co-founder & CEO, Rappler; Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Antony J. Blinken
United States Secretary of State
Angela Hession
Global VP of Trust and Safety, Twitch
Vint Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Chelsea Manning
Security and Hardware Optimization Advisor, Nymtech
“The issues that RightsCon addresses deserve leader-level attention … these are some of the most important issues that we could be talking about today.” (2022)
Jacinda Ardern
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
“This was my first RightsCon conference and what an experience it was, hosting a conversation about healing, hope and protest was just what I needed during a summer during which Black people were grappling with mass deaths through COVID and evidence that we are still continually hunted and killed by the police. […] I hope this will be the beginning of a long relationship with RightsCon as they think about how anti-racist policies and practices can become part of human rights frames.” (2020)
Mutale Nkonde
CEO AI for the People, Key Constituent of the UN 3C Round Table on AI
“RightsCon is the Davos of Digital Rights.” (2017)
Matt Peacock
Group Director of Corporate Affairs at Vodafone Group
“RightsCon is an online and offline space to build relationships on the digital rights’ agenda among actors and communities from diverse sectors and geographical locations. It allows people to imagine and strategize in the same space how digital technologies can create better and safer understandings between different societies.” (2019)
Alejandro Mayoral Banos
Executive Director, Indigenous Friends Organization
“I must say I’m amazed. It’s enormous. It gathers people from the NGOs, academics, private sector – a convergence and divergence of all these people.” (2018)
Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin
Chair and President of the CNIL
“I mean where have you been if you haven’t been to RightsCon! This is where you get to do the real work… It’s where you get to meet people who you can mentor, who want to do what you’re doing, where you can meet people who have done what you’re trying to do, who can mentor you, and it’s where you can meet your peers, so you know you’re not the only crazy person who wants to save the world.” (2018)
Gbénga Sèsan
Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative
“Perhaps the most striking, joyous, part of it was being at a conference where diversity in all its forms was essential to its lifeblood – in contrast to most conferences I attend where diversity is too often thought of in terms of checking boxes.”
Bec Hamilton
Assistant Law Professor, American University
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Thanks to our sponsors
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