The 13th edition of the RightsCon Summit Series will be held in South Korea and online in February 2025. Our recent announcement outlined our location selection process, provided context on why we’ve shifted our timeline, and shared our intention to host RightsCon in Africa in 2026.

As part of our commitment to foster greater transparency, as well as incorporate community input into the decision-making around RightsCon, we are embarking on a series of community consultations to learn more about your experiences and gather feedback and suggestions for the future of RightsCon.

The aim of these consultations is to ensure that your voice remains front and center as we redesign the core elements of RightsCon in order to build a safer, more caring, and more equal space together. We acknowledge the labor this work requires and hope you will engage with us in whichever way makes sense to you.

Ways to engage

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You can reach out to us directly with any feedback or reflections you’d like to share about your experience at RightsCon.

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Community Calls

We will be hosting a series of community calls to get your input as we redesign the core elements of RightsCon. We invite you to join the calls that you resonate with and that are most applicable to you.

Decision-making around where and when RightsCon is hosted in 2026

This includes creating pathways for the community to provide input into the location selection process.

Community input into location selection for RightsCon 2026 (slot 1)

January 23: 3am New York | 9am Brussels | 4pm Hong Kong

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Community input into location selection for RightsCon 2026 (slot 2)

January 25: 10am New York | 4pm Brussels | 11pm Hong Kong

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Our role in mitigating barriers to travel to RightsCon (by region)

This includes visa and travel-related concerns for RightsCon South Korea, steps we can take to address and mitigate challenges, and ways in which we can provide more effective support to participants

Asia Pacific region participants

November 1: 3am New York | 8am Brussels | 3pm Hong Kong

Thanks for participating! We’ll share the notes of this session soon.

Africa region participants

November 1: 9am New York | 2pm Brussels | 9pm Hong Kong

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Central Asia and Eastern Europe region participants

November 8: 3am New York | 9am Brussels | 4pm Hong Kong

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Middle East and Northern Africa region participants

November 8: 8am New York / 2pm Brussels / 9pm Hong Kong

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Latin America region participants

November 15: 10am New York / 4pm Brussels / 11pm Hong

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Participant experience at RightsCon

This includes the ways in which we can facilitate community connections within and beyond the summit, increasing participant support during the summit, and suggestions on non-programmatic spaces we can foster.

Rethinking participant experience at RightsCon (slot 1)

November 14: 3am New York / 9am Brussels / 4pm Hong Kong

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Rethinking participant experience at RightsCon (slot 2)

November 16: 9am New York / 3pm Brussels / 10pm Hong Kong

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RightsCon’s program structure, development, and execution (for session organizers only)

This includes the hybrid model, the size of the community-sourced program, and the support provided to session proposers. If you are a session organizer, the RightsCon team will send you an invite via email.

Online session organizers only:
Rethinking the RightsCon program (slot 1)

October 17: 10am New York | 4pm Brussels | 10pm Hong Kong

Thanks for participating! We’ll share the notes of this session soon.

Online session organizers only:
Rethinking the RightsCon program (slot 2)

October 31: 4am New York | 9am Brussels | 4pm Hong Kong

Thanks for participating! We’ll share the notes of this session soon.

In-person session organizers only:
Rethinking the RightsCon program (slot 1)

October 19: 10am New York / 4pm Brussels / 10pm Hong Kong

Thanks for participating! We’ll share the notes of this session soon.

In-person session organizers only:
Rethinking the RightsCon program: (slot 2)

November 2: 4am New York / 9am Brussels / 4pm Hong Kong

Thanks for participating! We’ll share the notes of this session soon.

Hybrid session organizers only:
Rethinking the RightsCon program (slot 1)

November 7: 10am New York / 4pm Brussels / 11pm Hong Kong

Thanks for participating! We’ll share the notes of this session soon.

Hybrid session organizers only:
Rethinking the RightsCon program (slot 2)

November 9: 4am New York / 10am Brussels / 5pm Hong Kong

Thanks for participating! We’ll share the notes of this session soon.

RightsCon model of community support

This includes where our community support mechanisms have been successful, where they have fallen short, and gaps we need to fill.

Reviewing our approach to community support (slot 1)

October 24: 10am New York / 4pm Brussels / 10pm Hong Kong

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Reviewing our approach to community support (slot 2)

October 25: 4am New York / 10am Brussels / 4pm Hong Kong

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Reviewing the RightsCon Call for Proposals (CFP) process

These calls will focus on getting input from those who have previously participated in our CFP process on how we can refine the timeline and evaluation process, provide better support to session proposers, and reduce barriers to sending in a session proposal.

Reviewing the RightsCon Call for Proposals process (slot 1)

October 30: 10am New York / 3pm Brussels / 10pm Hong Kong

Thanks for participating! We’ll share the notes of this session soon.

Reviewing the RightsCon Call for Proposals process (slot 2)

November 7: 3am New York / 9am Brussels / 4pm Hong Kong

Thanks for participating! We’ll share the notes of this session soon.

Notes and follow-up

We will be publicly sharing anonymized notes from the community calls, as well as do regular progress reports on action items that arise out of these calls.

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