RightsCon Silicon Valley 2014 was an incredible mixture of 723 attendees from 65 countries and 365 institutions. You can view many of the videos from each day here. To revisit the program, which includes content and participant details of each session, you can download a pdf. And don’t forget to check out the Outcomes. The agenda represents the contributions of over 40 institutions and almost 300 individual speakers, many of whom are highlighted below. To get onto the agenda, each session was judged by our all-star Programming Committee, which was composed of leading internet and human rights experts. Information about that stellar cast is below. |
Check out up to 27 quality sessions, liveblogs, and dozens of photos to catch the spirit of the event.
Executive Chair, Mozilla
CEO, Digg
Executive Director, Point of View; Board Member, Wikimedia Foundation
Director of Global Affairs, Human Rights Watch
Head of Public Policy, Mozilla
Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
Senior Director of Trust & Safety, Twitter
Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft
Director of Ranking Digital Rights Project, New America Foundation
Legislative Council, Hong Kong
Founder, GNU Project and Free Software Foundation
Director, Internet Democracy Project
Founding Director, Open Net, Professor, Korea University Law School
Executive Director, Global Partners
Renata Avila, Global Campaigns Manager, Web We Want
Co-founder of Foundation for Internet and Civic Culture and a coordinator
Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Principal Director, Open Technology Fund, Radio Free Asia
Director, Internet & Jurisdiction Project
Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society India, Brown University
Public Policy Manager, Facebook
Program Director, Witness
Project Coordinator and Researcher on Digital Rights, Center for Technology and Society/Fundação Getulio Vargas
Professor of Business and Society, NYU's Stern School of Business
Programme Support Manager: ICT, Institute for Human Rights and Business
Senior Researcher on Internet & Human Rights, Human Rights Watch
Project Director at New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute (OTI)
General Manager Policy and Outreach, Union Square Ventures
Vice President, Human Rights Program, Benetech
Co-founder and Executive Director, Access
Head of Global Public Policy, Twitter
Deputy Head, Human Rights & Democracy Department
Global Public Policy Manager, Google
Azerbaijani Blogger & Journalist
Researcher, Center for Technology and Society (CTS)
President, Group Public and Government Affairs, British Telecom (BT)
Alternatif Bilisim (Alternative Informatics), Turkey
International Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
CTO, Evernote
Founder & Director of MideastYouth.com
CTO and Co-Founder, renesys
Chief Security Officer, Facebook
Policy and Investigation, CloudFlare
Co-founder & CEO, CloudFlare
Co-Founder & CEO, Open Garden
Senior Director of International Law and Policy, Amnesty International
Public Policy & Government Relations Senior Counsel, Google
Executive Vice President, Verizon Communications
Executive Director, NGO Institute of Mass Information
Head of Free Expression & Int'l Relations, Google
Sexual Minorities Research Manager, SMUG
Technical Director, Virtualroad.org/Qurium Media Foundation
Associate, Foley Hoag
Associate Director, Center for Media Justice
Researcher on Censorship
Program Director, Abundance Foundation
President & CEO, Chairman of the Board at Benetech
Deputy Director Human Rights Division, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Development Director, The Tor Project
Policy Director, Open Technology Institute - New America Foundation
Executive Director, Open Media and Information Companies Initiative
Director of Investments, Humanity United
Program Director, S.A.F.E. Initiative
Director, Citizen Lab
Co-Director, Center for Business and Human Rights - NYU
Country Director, Bytes for All
Executive Director, Human Rights Center, University of California Berkeley School of Law
Executive Director, Foundation for Media Alternatives
Independent Journalist
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Access enlists an all-star multi-stakeholder Programming Committee of leading internet and human rights experts to help us build the best possible conference programs. They help us rank and review the hundreds of session proposals which we receive, and hone in on the best and most outcome-oriented program. These Committees are composed of members of civil society, private sector, government officials, journalists, and other leaders in the field. Below is the committee members for RightsCon Silicon Valley 2014.
Senior Researcher on Internet & Human Rights, Human Rights Watch
Executive Director, Global Partners
Director, Internet & Jurisdiction Project
Head of Public Policy, Mozilla
Principal Director, Open Technology Fund, Radio Free Asia
Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society India, Brown University
Project Coordinator and Researcher on Digital Rights, Center for Technology and Society/Fundação Getulio Vargas
Programme Support Manager: ICT, Institute for Human Rights and Business
CEO, Be Bold Media
Public Policy Manager, Facebook
General Manager Policy and Outreach, Union Square Ventures
Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Senior Director, Labor & Corporate Responsibility at Sorini Samet & Associates LLC
Researcher, Internews
Program Officer, Internet Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Senior Director of Trust & Safety, Twitter
Global Public Policy Manager, Google
Founder & Director of MideastYouth.com
Executive Director, European Digital Rights
Associate, Foley Hoag
Founder, MayFirst/PeopleLink
Associate Director, Center for Media Justice
Co-founder, Tech LadyMafia
GM, International Independent Publishing, Kindle, Amazon
Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications
Director, ONG Derechos Digitales
Researcher on Censorship
Founder & Principal, Article 3 Advisors
CEO & Co-Founder, AnchorFree
Policy & Communications Director, Global Network Initiative
Program Director, Abundance Foundation
Director, Global Voices Advocacy (Advox)
Policy and Investigation, CloudFlare
President & CEO, Chairman of the Board at Benetech
Deputy Director Human Rights Division, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Development Director, The Tor Project
Policy Director, Open Technology Institute - New America Foundation
Coordinator, Information Society and Internet Governance, Council of Europe
Independent Journalist
Executive Director, Open Media and Information Companies Initiative
Director of Investments, Humanity United
CEO, Floor64
Program Director, S.A.F.E. Initiative
Director, Citizen Lab
Program Director, re:publica
Co-Director, Center for Business and Human Rights - NYU
Entrepreneur and Digital Rights Activist, CTO at StopWatching.us, Co-Founder of OpenSignal
Country Director, Bytes for All
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Access would like to thank the below institutions for their remarkable contributions to RightsCon Silicon Valley
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