RightsCon

Thank you for RightsCon 2025!

For its 13th edition, RightsCon 2025 took place in Taipei, Taiwan and online from Monday, February 24 to Thursday, February 27, marking our return to the Asia Pacific region after a decade.

We are incredibly grateful for the participants, session organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and everyone that helped make RightsCon 2025 a space for discussions, networking and collaboration.

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37,000+

participants
in 12 years

17,000+

civil society participants

2,000+

government officials

4,000+

private sector participants

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

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

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 that joined us throughout the last 12 years.

RightsCon speakers have included

Meredith Whittaker

President, Signal

Owen Bennett

Head of International Online Safety, Ofcom, United Kingdom

Rashad Abelson

Tech Sector Lead, OECD

Alissa Starzak

Vice President & Global Head of Public Policy, Cloudflare

Lorraine Finlay

Human Rights Commissioner, Australia

Kehinde Adegboyega

Executive Director, Human Rights Journalists Network Nigeria

Jo-Fan Yu

CEO, Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC)

Grace Githaiga

CEO, Kenya ICT Action Network

Alexander White

Privacy Commissioner, Bermuda

Akvile Liudziene

Environmental, Social, and Governance Manager, Nord Security

KS Park

CEO, Open Net Korea

Lea Kaspar

Executive Director, Global Partners Digital

E-Ling Chiu

Director, Amnesty International Taiwan

Antonio Zappulla

Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Marwa Fatafta

MENA Policy and Advocacy Director, Access Now

Raman Jit Singh Chima

Global Cybersecurity Lead | Senior International Counsel & Asia Pacific Policy Director, Access Now

Aws Al-Saadi

Founder and President, Tech4Peace

Laura Tyrylyte

Head of Public Relations, Nord Security

David Sullivan

Executive Director, Digital Trust and Safety Partnership

Neema Lugangira

Chairperson, African Parliamentary Network on Internet Governance (APNIG); Member of Parliament, Tanzania

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“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

“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 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)