The RightsCon Young Leaders Summit brings together students and young professionals for a one-day workshop. The program invests in and empowers young people to join policy and advocacy discussions around human rights in the digital age. Facilitated by leaders of the digital rights community, the workshop engages participants on advocacy, policy making, and movement building for a wide range of emerging issues, such as data protection and privacy, network discrimination and connectivity, digital security, diversity and digital inclusion, artificial intelligence and algorithmic accountability, and more.

Access Now offered its first RightsCon CLE and CPD Credit Bearing Course “Ethical Duties in the Digital Age: Encryption Done Dirt Cheap” at RightsCon Toronto. This workshop was an interactive opportunity for lawyers to learn about data security strategies to help protect confidential information.

This course was CPD accredited by the Law Society of Ontario and CLE approved by the California State Bar. NY State Attorneys will receive CLE credits through the NYSBA Approved Jurisdiction policy.

Hosted by Just Net Coalition (JNC), the event Contending with the digital horizon – What next for social movements? was hosted on Day Zero of RightsCon. It convened a space for representatives of social movements (focused on social, economic and cultural rights) to speak from their situated experiences on emerging insights about the ‘digital revolution’. These exchanges and interactions helped in exploring how individual and collective rights movements can work together for data and digital justice.