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Register now for RightsCon 2025
For its 13th edition, Access Now will host RightsCon 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan and online from Monday, February 24 to Thursday, February 27, marking our first summit in East Asia and a return to the Asia Pacific region after a decade.
RightsCon is home to countless movements, from fight for an end to internet shutdowns with the #KeepItOn coalition, ensuring people’s right to equality and non-discrimination in machine learning with the Toronto Declaration, campaigning to #FreeAlaa, and many others – and our 13th edition will be no exception!
Visit our Registration page to learn more about what’s included in your ticket, discounts, and more. If you’re ready to join us, grab your early bird ticket today!
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Meet a few of the organizations who join us year-after-year
RightsCon speakers have included
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Amandeep Singh Gill
United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology
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Timnit Gebru
Founder and Executive Director, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR)
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Brett Solomon
Co-Founder, Access Now
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Jacinda Ardern
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
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Will Cathcart
Head of Whatsapp, Meta
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Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen
Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Denmark
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Kent Walker
President, Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet
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Meredith Whittaker
President, Signal
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Pedro Vaca Villareal
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
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Nabiha Syed
CEO, The Markup
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Epsy Campbell Barr
President, Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, United Nations; Former Vice President of Costa Rica
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Brad Smith
President, Microsoft
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Irene Khan
United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion
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Paola Vega Castillo
Minister, Science, Technology and Telecommunications, Government of Costa Rica
![Black and white photo of Erika Cheung](https://rightscon.org/cms/assets/uploads/2022/11/Erika-Cheung-771x463.jpg)
Erika Cheung
Theranos Whistleblower; Executive Director, Ethics in Entrepreneurship
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Emel Mathlouthi
Tunisian Musician, Producer, and Activist, “The Tunis Diaries”
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Valeriia Ionan
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Digital Transformation, Government of Ukraine
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Tawana Petty
Director of Community, Algorithmic Justice League
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Samantha Power
Administrator, United States Agency for International Development
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John Githongo
CEO, Inuka
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Maria Ressa
Co-founder & CEO, Rappler; Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Angela Hession
Global VP of Trust and Safety, Twitch
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Vint Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
![Black and white photo of Chelsea Manning](https://rightscon.org/cms/assets/uploads/2022/05/Chelsea-Manning-scaled-e1651750040552-771x771.jpeg)
Chelsea Manning
Security and Hardware Optimization Advisor, Nymtech
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