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Welcome to RightsCon Silicon Valley
March 30 — April 1, 2016

2016 will see a bigger, brighter, and better RightsCon, more dynamic and outcome-oriented than ever before. While programmatic development is ongoing, planned elements will tackle topical and current issues in the digital sector such as encryption and cybersecurity, intermediary liability and data center location, transparency reporting and best practices on user trust, the growing internet of things, complex compliance and regulatory environments, and more:

Confirmed 2016 speakers include: David Kaye, Nicole Wong, Salil Shetty, Bruce Schneier, Eileen Donahoe, Matthew Prince, Cindy Cohn, Dan Bross, Joe Cannataci, and more.

150 breakout sessions featuring the world's leading companies, investors, and technologists;

Private roundtables and closed-door bilateral meetings to encourage cross-stakeholder engagement and collaboration;

Satellite events like Crypto Summit 2.0, the second event in a series hosted by Access Now on encryption and the future of cybersecurity;

Demo Room and Lightning Talks to showcase the latest technologies, tools, and initiatives from Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Past Speakers

The RightsCon Summit Series engages stakeholders from all sectors of the tech/policy arena. Below are a sample of the speakers from previous conferences.

Mitchell Baker

Executive Chair, Mozilla

Del Harvey

Senior Director of Trust & Safety, Twitter

Dan Bross

Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft

Brad Burnham

Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures

Bishakha Datta

Executive Director, Point of View; Board Member, Wikimedia Foundation

Charles Mok

Legislative Council, Hong Kong

Kilnam Chon

EO Networking, Inc, Internet Hall of Fame Global Connector

Richard Lusimbo

Sexual Minorities Research Manager, SMUG

Richard Stallman

Founder, GNU Project and Free Software Foundation

David Kaye

Special Rapporteur, United Nations Human Rights Council

Khailee Ng

Managing Partner, 500 Startups. Founder, SAYS.com

Rebecca MacKinnon

Director of Ranking Digital Rights Project, New America Foundation

Morgan Marquis-Boire

Director of Security for First Look Media

Eileen Donahoe

Director of Global Affairs, Human Rights Watch

Gbenga Sesan

Executive Director, Paradigm Iniitiative

Nighat Dad

Executive Director, Digital Rights Pakistan

Jacob Appelbaum

Independent Computer Security Researcher & Core Member of Tor Project

Libby Liu

President, Radio Free Asia

Anja Kovacs

Director, Internet Democracy Project

Arthit Suriyamongkol

Co-founder of Foundation for Internet and Civic Culture and a coordinator

Photo Credit - Aj Molina

Photo Credit - Kiri Delena

Photo Credit - Mon Paet

Past Satellite Events

To complement official programming, Access Now partners with various organizations to host Satellite Events before and after RightsCon. Below is a sample. Have an idea for a Satellite Event? Tell us about it!