<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">​Dear All, <br><br></div><div>Apologies for cross posting (incase you have seen this message somewhere else)<br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We wanted to share an important update for </span><a href="https://www.rightscon.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016</span></a><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (Wednesday March 30- Friday April 1, 2016). We received lots of requests for it, so we’re happy to announce that we have </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">extended the program session submission deadline until Monday, December 14, 2015!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-7bf00093-8c87-01da-1393-866e0f7a8892"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Confirmed Speaker Highlights (To Date)</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/kaye/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">David Kaye</span></a><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://twitter.com/nicolewong?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Nicole Wong</span></a><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, Former US Deputy CTO, Legal Director for Products @Twitter, VP & Deputy GC for Google</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://twitter.com/SalilShetty" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Salil Shetty</span></a><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, Secretary General of Amnesty International, and former Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" s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background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, and founder of Psiphon, one of the world’s leading digital censorship circumvention services</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAUQCmkBlSKUbdgy-8vKLkNwSrqBg94vO2Y" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Stephen Lowe</span></a><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, Head of Business and Human Rights/Freedom of Expression Team, Human Rights and Democracy Department, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.ushrnetwork.org/about-us/who-we-are/staff/ejim-dike" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Ejim Dike</span></a><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network, and former Director of the Human Rights Project at the Urban Justice Center.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://twitter.com/danbross" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Dan Bross</span></a><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Privacy/SR/Pages/JoeCannataci.aspx" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Joe Cannataci</span></a><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.eff.org/about/staff/cindy-cohn" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Cindy Cohn</span></a><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.333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