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SOUTH KOREA AND ONLINE | February 2025

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JOIN US ON OUR JOURNEY TO RIGHTSCON SOUTH KOREA

A global leader in technology innovation with a vibrant civil society, South
Korea offers a dynamic environment to convene and engage our community. Our
first-ever summit in East Asia, and the second in the Asia Pacific region,
RightsCon South Korea will address the most pressing local, regional, and global
issues at the intersection of human rights and technology. Read our blog post to
learn more about how and why we chose South Korea.

We want to build RightsCon South Korea together with the RightsCon Community. We
are immensely grateful for the invaluable insight and feedback over 700 of you
provided to us during the 19 community consultation calls we ran from
October-January!

But that is not the end – we look forward to creating more spaces for community
input and continuing the conversation with you from consultation to redesign to
implementation. Subscribe to our newsletter for date announcements, program
updates, and new opportunities for engagement .





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THE RIGHTSCON COMMUNITY

RightsCon offers a platform for thousands of participants from 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.



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

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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


AMANDEEP SINGH GILL

United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology


TIMNIT GEBRU

Founder and Executive Director, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research
Institute (DAIR)


CLINT SMITH

Chief Legal Officer, Discord


JACINDA ARDERN

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand


WILL CATHCART

Head of Whatsapp, Meta


ANNE MARIE ENGTOFT LARSEN

Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Denmark


KENT WALKER

President, Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet


MEREDITH WHITTAKER

President, Signal


PEDRO VACA VILLAREAL

Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights


NABIHA SYED

CEO, The Markup


EPSY CAMPBELL BARR

President, Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, United Nations; Former
Vice President of Costa Rica


BRAD SMITH

President, Microsoft


IRENE KHAN

United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion


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


MARIA RESSA

Co-founder & CEO, Rappler; Nobel Peace Prize Winner


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

See More Speakers

“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)

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

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REVISIT RIGHTSCON COSTA RICA

Explore again the best of RightsCon Costa Rica with hundreds of sessions on our
summit platform and on our YouTube channel.

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REVISIT RIGHTSCON COSTA RICA

Explore again the best of RightsCon Costa Rica with hundreds of sessions on our
summit platform and on our YouTube channel.

visit our youtube channel
login to the summit platform


REVISIT RIGHTSCON COSTA RICA

Explore again the best of RightsCon Costa Rica with hundreds of sessions on our
summit platform and on our YouTube channel.

visit our youtube channel
login to the summit platform
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THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

We are grateful to our sponsors, who have invested in RightsCon over the last
decade. RightsCon sponsorship offers a unique opportunity to advance policy on
human rights in the digital age, support a global community of grassroots
actors, and demonstrate an enduring commitment to human rights. 


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