June 5-8, 2023
The 12th edition of the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age
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Early bird prices have been extended until April 7, 2023.
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125
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Private Sector and Investors
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Meet our RightsCon Costa Rica speakers
Carine Kanimba
Activist, Daughter of Imprisoned Hotel Rwanda Dissident Paul Rusesabagina
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.
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Amandeep Singh Gill
United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology
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.
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Meredith Whittaker
President, Signal
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.
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Sevgil Musaieva
Ukrainian Journalist from Crimea; Editor-in-chief, Ukrainska Pravda
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.
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Will Cathcart
Head of WhatsApp, Meta
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
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
Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister of New Zealand
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
Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul
Thai Pro-Democracy Activist; Leader, United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration
DJ Switch
Nigerian DJ; #EndSARS Movement Activist
Chung Ching Kwong
Hong Kong Digital Rights Activist; Hong Kong Campaigns Coordinator, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
Manal al-Sharif
Human Rights Activist; Cybersecurity Expert; Founder, The Ethical Technologists Society; Host, Tech4Evil.com Podcast;
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
Agnès Callamard
Secretary General, Amnesty International
Jane Horvath
Chief Privacy Officer, Apple
Pedro Vaca Villarreal
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
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
Julie Owono
Executive Director, Content Policy & Society Lab, Stanford University; Executive Director, Internet Sans Frontières
+many more!
Who comes to RightsCon?
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.
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
“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 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
“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
“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
“… 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
“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
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