RightsCon 2025 in Taipei and online
Each edition of RightsCon convenes business leaders, policy makers, general counsels, government representatives, technologists, academics, journalists, and human rights advocates from around the world to tackle pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology. RightsCon is where the global community comes together to build strategies and drive forward change toward a more free, open, and connected world.
For its 13th edition, Access Now is excited to host RightsCon 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan and online from Monday, February 24 to Thursday, February 27, marking our first summit in East Asia and a return to the Asia Pacific region after a decade.
As a leading democracy in the region, Taiwan is recognized globally for the freest online environment and greatest human freedom in Asia, a whole-of-society approach to human rights, and a vibrant civil society community. As the routine location of large-scale international events, coupled with the rapidly growing presence of international NGOs and global tech companies, we look forward to convening our community in Taipei.
The latest from RightsCon
NEW AT RIGHTSCON 2025
The Privacy and Human Rights Award
The Privacy and Human Rights Award, developed by the Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) in collaboration with Access Now, is a new opportunity to celebrate and uphold an organization doing outstanding work to protect and promote privacy, data protection, and human rights — at any level and in any country. Send your nomination by September 1, 2024!
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
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)
Brett Solomon
Co-Founder, Access Now
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
Epsy Campbell Barr
President, Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, United Nations; Former Vice President of Costa Rica
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
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
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