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.

Highlights

Check out up to 27 quality sessions, liveblogs, and dozens of photos to catch the spirit of the event.

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Speakers

Mitchell Baker

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Executive Chair, Mozilla

Andrew McLaughlin

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CEO, Digg

Bishakha Datta

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

Eileen Donahoe

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Director of Global Affairs, Human Rights Watch

Chris Riley

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Head of Public Policy, Mozilla

Brad Burnham

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Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures

Del Harvey

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Senior Director of Trust & Safety, Twitter

Dan Bross

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Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft

Rebecca MacKinnon

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Director of Ranking Digital Rights Project, New America Foundation

Charles Mok

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Legislative Council, Hong Kong

Richard Stallman

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Founder, GNU Project and Free Software Foundation

Anja Kovacs

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Director, Internet Democracy Project

Professor Park Kyung-sin

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Founding Director, Open Net, Professor, Korea University Law School

Andrew Puddephatt

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Executive Director, Global Partners

Renata Avila

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Renata Avila, Global Campaigns Manager, Web We Want

Arthit Suriyamongkol

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

Jillian York

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Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Dan Meredith

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Principal Director, Open Technology Fund, Radio Free Asia

Bertrand de La Chapelle

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Director, Internet & Jurisdiction Project

Pranesh Prakash

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Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society India, Brown University

Matt Perault

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Public Policy Manager, Facebook

Sam Gregory

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Program Director, Witness

Joana Varon Ferraz

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Project Coordinator and Researcher on Digital Rights, Center for Technology and Society/Fundação Getulio Vargas

Michael H. Posner

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Professor of Business and Society, NYU's Stern School of Business

Lucy Purdon

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Programme Support Manager: ICT, Institute for Human Rights and Business

Cynthia Wong

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Senior Researcher on Internet & Human Rights, Human Rights Watch

Carolina Rossini

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Project Director at New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute (OTI)

Nick Grossman

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General Manager Policy and Outreach, Union Square Ventures

Enrique Piracés

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Vice President, Human Rights Program, Benetech

Brett Solomon

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Co-founder and Executive Director, Access

Colin Crowell

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Head of Global Public Policy, Twitter

John Fox

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Deputy Head, Human Rights & Democracy Department

Derek Slater

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Global Public Policy Manager, Google

Arzu Geybullayeva

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Azerbaijani Blogger & Journalist

Luca Belli

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Researcher, Center for Technology and Society (CTS)

Larry Stone

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President, Group Public and Government Affairs, British Telecom (BT)

Burak Arikan

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Alternatif Bilisim (Alternative Informatics), Turkey

Danny O'Brien

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International Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Dave Engberg

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CTO, Evernote

Esra'a al Shafei

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Founder & Director of MideastYouth.com

James Cowie

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CTO and Co-Founder, renesys

Joe Sullivan

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Chief Security Officer, Facebook

Jamie Tomasello

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Policy and Investigation, CloudFlare

Matthew Prince

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Co-founder & CEO, CloudFlare

Micha Benoliel

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Co-Founder & CEO, Open Garden

Michael Garcia Bochenek

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Senior Director of International Law and Policy, Amnesty International

Patrick Ryan

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Public Policy & Government Relations Senior Counsel, Google

Randal S. Milch

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Executive Vice President, Verizon Communications

Romaniuk Oksana

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Executive Director, NGO Institute of Mass Information

Ross LaJeunesse

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Head of Free Expression & Int'l Relations, Google

Richard Lusimbo

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Sexual Minorities Research Manager, SMUG

Tord Lundstrom

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Technical Director, Virtualroad.org/Qurium Media Foundation

Vivek Krishnamurthy

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Associate, Foley Hoag

Amalia Deloney

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Associate Director, Center for Media Justice

Collin Anderson

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Researcher on Censorship

Emi Kane

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Program Director, Abundance Foundation

Jim Fruchterman

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President & CEO, Chairman of the Board at Benetech

Johan Hallenborg

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Deputy Director Human Rights Division, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Karen Reilly

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Development Director, The Tor Project

Kevin Bankston

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Policy Director, Open Technology Institute - New America Foundation

Michael Connor

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Executive Director, Open Media and Information Companies Initiative

Michael Kleinman

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Director of Investments, Humanity United

Oktavía Jónsdóttir

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Program Director, S.A.F.E. Initiative

Ron Deibert

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Director, Citizen Lab

Sarah Labowitz

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Co-Director, Center for Business and Human Rights - NYU

Shahzad Ahmad

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Country Director, Bytes for All

Alexa Koenig

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Executive Director, Human Rights Center, University of California Berkeley School of Law

Al Alegre

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Executive Director, Foundation for Media Alternatives

Marcy Wheeler

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Independent Journalist

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Programming Committee

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.

Cynthia Wong

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Senior Researcher on Internet & Human Rights, Human Rights Watch

Andrew Puddephatt

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Executive Director, Global Partners

Bertrand de La Chapelle

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Director, Internet & Jurisdiction Project

Chris Riley

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Head of Public Policy, Mozilla

Dan Meredith

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Principal Director, Open Technology Fund, Radio Free Asia

Pranesh Prakash

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Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society India, Brown University

Joana Varon Ferraz

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Project Coordinator and Researcher on Digital Rights, Center for Technology and Society/Fundação Getulio Vargas

Lucy Purdon

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Programme Support Manager: ICT, Institute for Human Rights and Business

Sabrina Hersi Issa

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CEO, Be Bold Media

Matt Perault

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Public Policy Manager, Facebook

Nick Grossman

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General Manager Policy and Outreach, Union Square Ventures

Jillian York

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Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Eryn Schornick

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Senior Director, Labor & Corporate Responsibility at Sorini Samet & Associates LLC

Carolyn Anhalt

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Researcher, Internews

Laura Mottaz

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Program Officer, Internet Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

Del Harvey

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Senior Director of Trust & Safety, Twitter

Derek Slater

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Global Public Policy Manager, Google

Esra'a al Shafei

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Founder & Director of MideastYouth.com

Joe McNamee

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Executive Director, European Digital Rights

Vivek Krishnamurthy

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Associate, Foley Hoag

Alfredo Lopez

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Founder, MayFirst/PeopleLink

Amalia Deloney

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Associate Director, Center for Media Justice

Aminatou Sow

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Co-founder, Tech LadyMafia

Andrew Cohen

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GM, International Independent Publishing, Kindle, Amazon

Anriette Eysterhuesen

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Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications

Claudio Ruiz

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Director, ONG Derechos Digitales

Collin Anderson

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Researcher on Censorship

Darian Swig

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Founder & Principal, Article 3 Advisors

David Gorodyansky

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CEO & Co-Founder, AnchorFree

David Sullivan

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Policy & Communications Director, Global Network Initiative

Emi Kane

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Program Director, Abundance Foundation

Hisham Almiraat

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Director, Global Voices Advocacy (Advox)

Jamie Tomasello

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Policy and Investigation, CloudFlare

Jim Fruchterman

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President & CEO, Chairman of the Board at Benetech

Johan Hallenborg

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Deputy Director Human Rights Division, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Karen Reilly

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Development Director, The Tor Project

Kevin Bankston

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Policy Director, Open Technology Institute - New America Foundation

Lee Hibbard

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Coordinator, Information Society and Internet Governance, Council of Europe

Marcy Wheeler

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Independent Journalist

Michael Connor

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Executive Director, Open Media and Information Companies Initiative

Michael Kleinman

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Director of Investments, Humanity United

Mike Masnick

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CEO, Floor64

Oktavía Jónsdóttir

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Program Director, S.A.F.E. Initiative

Ron Deibert

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Director, Citizen Lab

Sandra Mamitzsch

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Program Director, re:publica

Sarah Labowitz

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Co-Director, Center for Business and Human Rights - NYU

Sina Khanifar

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Entrepreneur and Digital Rights Activist, CTO at StopWatching.us, Co-Founder of OpenSignal

Shahzad Ahmad

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Country Director, Bytes for All

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Satellite Events

Access would like to thank the below institutions for their remarkable contributions to RightsCon Silicon Valley

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