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Amandeep Singh Gill, United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology

Meet our RightsCon Costa Rica speakers

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 set to join us this June in Costa Rica.

Meredith Whittaker, President, Signal

Meet our RightsCon Costa Rica speakers

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 set to join us this June in Costa Rica.

Carine Kanimba, Activist, Daughter of Imprisoned Hotel Rwanda Dissident Paul Rusesabagina

Meet our RightsCon Costa Rica speakers

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 set to join us this June in Costa Rica.

Sevgil Musaieva, Ukrainian Journalist from Crimea, Editor-in-chief, Ukrainska Pravda

Meet our RightsCon Costa Rica speakers

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 set to join us this June in Costa Rica.

For over a decade, we’ve welcomed leaders from around the world

Black and white photo of Paola Vega Castillo

Paola Vega Castillo

Minister, Science, Technology and Telecommunications, Government of Costa Rica

Black and white photo of Erika Cheung

Erika Cheung

Theranos Whistleblower; Executive Director, Ethics in Entrepreneurship

Black and white photo of Emel Mathlouthi

Emel Mathlouthi

Tunisian Musician, Producer, and Activist, “The Tunis Diaries”

Black and white photo of Valeriia Ionan

Valeriia Ionan

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Digital Transformation, Government of Ukraine

Black and white photo of Tawana Petty

Tawana Petty

Director of Community, Algorithmic Justice League

Black and white photo of Samantha Power

Samantha Power

Administrator, United States Agency for International Development

Black and white photo of John Githongo

John Githongo

CEO, Inuka

Black and white photo of Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern

Prime Minister of New Zealand

Black and white photo of Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa

Co-founder & CEO, Rappler; Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Black and white photo of Antony J. Blinken

Antony J. Blinken

United States Secretary of State

Black and white photo of Angela Hession

Angela Hession

Global VP of Trust and Safety, Twitch

Black and white photo of Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf

Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

Black and white photo of Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning

Security and Hardware Optimization Advisor, Nymtech

Black and white photo of Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul

Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul

Thai Pro-Democracy Activist; Leader, United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration

Black and white photo of DJ Switch

DJ Switch

Nigerian DJ; #EndSARS Movement Activist

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Chung Ching Kwong

Hong Kong Digital Rights Activist; Hong Kong Campaigns Coordinator, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China

Black and white photos of Manal al-Sharif

Manal al-Sharif

Human Rights Activist; Cybersecurity Expert; Founder, The Ethical Technologists Society; Host, Tech4Evil.com Podcast;

Black and white photo of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

National Leader of Belarus, Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Safiya Umoja Noble

Associate Professor, UCLA; Co-Founder and Co-Director, C2i2

Jeppe Kofod

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng

Special Rapporteur on the right to health

Vijaya Gadde

Former Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust, Twitter

Irene Khan

U.N Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion

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Agnès Callamard

Secretary General, Amnesty International

Jane Horvath

Chief Privacy Officer, Apple

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Pedro Vaca Villarreal

Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Black and white photograph of Lina Alhathloul

Lina Alhathloul

Head of Monitoring and Communication, ALQST For Human Rights

Brad Smith

President, Microsoft

William Cathcart

Head, WhatsApp

Shoshana Zuboff

Author, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”

Matthew Prince

Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare

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Julie Owono

Executive Director, Content Policy & Society Lab, Stanford University; Executive Director, Internet Sans Frontières

+many more!

10,000+

participants

1,500+

organizations, companies, and governments

150+

countries

500+

sessions

Meet a few of the organizations who join us year-after-year

Amazon
Amnesty International
Cisco
Digital Security Lab
Discord
Global Partners Digital
Human Rights Watch
Internews
Meta
Wikimedia
Center for Democracy & Technology Logo
Association for Progressive Communications Logo
Berkman Klein Center for internet & society at Harvard University Logo
CIPESA Logo
Dangerous Speech Project Logo
Freedom House Logo
Open Net Logo
Privacy International Logo
Small Media Logo
The Engine Room Logo
Jacinda Ardern

“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
Mutale Nkonde

“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
Matt Peacock

“RightsCon is the Davos of Digital Rights.” (2017)

Matt Peacock

Group Director of Corporate Affairs at Vodafone Group
Alejandro Mayoral Banos

“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
Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin

“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
Christina Goodness

“I found the conference to be game-changing for my work in the peace and security sector in the UN, in that it pulled together actors from the private sector, NGOs, activist world and UN who can speak powerfully to the core issues. The multiple tracks allowed for a lot of flexibility and provided a real wealth of global expertise on all the issues that I needed to gain current insight on, and unexpected areas as well. The many tracks spoke directly to the heart of the core issue: the mixed impact of a technology-infused world on citizens, institutions, and governments who haven’t reconciled the market economy dynamics with long-standing norms and expectations on human rights. Complicated, yet RightsCon opened up multiple conversations that I am continuing to this day. Thank you for organizing this excellent space for dialogue.”

Christina Goodness

Chief, DPPA-DPO, Information Management Unit, United Nations
Gbénga Sèsan

“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
Bec Hamilton

“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
Ron Deibert

“There are other events out there of various sorts. But this one is increasingly seen as the most important event to come to.” (2018)

Ron Deibert

Director, Citizen Lab
Uri Rosenthal

“… a truly impressive event that clearly demonstrates how NGOs have become redoubtable players in cyberspace.” (2016)

Uri Rosenthal

Dutch Special Envoy Cyberspace and Former Dutch Foreign Minister
Melanio Escobar

“For us in Venezuela, I think it’s very important to be in RightsCon because we can engage with the technology community and the people working worldwide on human rights. Here, we can have an update on what is happening in the tech world and all the tools we can use in Venezuela to keep our work going. I think it’s very important, all the connections we made here and all the people willing to help you do the work on the web without being blocked by the government.” (2018)

Melanio Escobar

Founder, Redesayuda
Airbnb
Canada
Cisco
Cloudflare
Discord
Duck Duck Go
ICANN
ISOC
Meta
Microsoft
Mozilla
Reddit
SIDA Sweden
Swiss FDFA
Denmark MFA
IDRC

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