[NCUC-DISCUSS] RightsCon Silicon Valley: Extended submission deadline fast approaching

Thu Dec 10 16:38:11 CET 2015

Dear All,

Apologies for cross posting (incase you have seen this message somewhere
else)

We wanted to share an important update for RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016
<https://www.rightscon.org/> (Wednesday March 30- Friday April 1, 2016). We
received lots of requests for it, so we’re happy to announce that we
have extended
the program session submission deadline until Monday, December 14, 2015!

Confirmed Speaker Highlights (To Date)

   -

   David Kaye <http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/kaye/>, UN Special
   Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
   -

   Nicole Wong
   <https://twitter.com/nicolewong?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor>,
   Former US Deputy CTO, Legal Director for Products @Twitter, VP & Deputy GC
   for Google
   -

   Salil Shetty <https://twitter.com/SalilShetty>, Secretary General of
   Amnesty International, and former Director of the United Nations Millennium
   Campaign
   -

   Bruce Schneier
   <https://twitter.com/schneierblog?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor>,
   Internationally renowned security technologist, cryptographer, privacy
   specialist, and author of 13 books
   -

   Eileen Donahoe <https://www.hrw.org/about/people/eileen-donahoe>,
   Director of Global Affairs at Human Rights Watch, former U.S. Ambassador to
   the United Nations
   -

   Matthew Prince
   <https://twitter.com/eastdakota?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor>,
    Co-Founder and CEO of CloudFlare, a website performance and security
   service that processes more than 5% of global web requests
   -

   Judith Lichtenberg
   <https://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/news/global-network-initiative-announces-new-executive-director-judith-lichtenberg>,
    Executive Director at Global Network Initiative, previously Head of
   Regulatory Affairs & Digital Rights at Vodafone Netherlands
   -

   Ron Deibert
   <https://twitter.com/RonDeibert?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor>,
   Director of the Citizen Lab, renowned author (including Access
   Controlled), and founder of Psiphon, one of the world’s leading digital
   censorship circumvention services
   -

   Stephen Lowe
   <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAUQCmkBlSKUbdgy-8vKLkNwSrqBg94vO2Y>,
   Head of Business and Human Rights/Freedom of Expression Team, Human Rights
   and Democracy Department, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
   -

   Ejim Dike
   <http://www.ushrnetwork.org/about-us/who-we-are/staff/ejim-dike>,
   Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network, and former Director of
   the Human Rights Project at the Urban Justice Center.
   -

   Dan Bross <https://twitter.com/danbross>, Senior Director of Corporate
   Citizenship at Microsoft
   -

   Joe Cannataci
   <http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Privacy/SR/Pages/JoeCannataci.aspx>, UN
   Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
   -

   Cindy Cohn <https://www.eff.org/about/staff/cindy-cohn>, Executive
   Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
   -

   Chris Riley <https://twitter.com/mchrisriley>, Head of Public Policy,
   Mozilla
   -

   Paul Nemitz <https://twitter.com/PaulNemitz>,  Director for Fundamental
   Rights and Union Citizenship, European Commission.
   -

   Esra'a Al Shafei, <https://twitter.com/ealshafei> Founder and director
   of Mideast Youth, a network of online platforms marginalized voices
   throughout the Middle East and North Africa, Bahrain
   -

   Yasmin Green <https://twitter.com/yasmind?lang=en>, Head of Research and
   Development for Google Ideas
   -

   Jillian York <https://www.eff.org/about/staff/jillian-york>, Director
   for International Freedom of Expression Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
   -

   Barton Gellman <https://www.bartongellman.com/>, Journalist, bestselling
   author, and Pulitzer Prize-winner on the global surveillance disclosure
   -

   Morgan Marquis-Boire <https://citizenlab.org/author/mmboire/>,  Director
   of Security for First Look Media, contributing writer for The Intercept,
   and Senior Researcher and Technical Advisor at the Citizen Lab
   -

   Walid Al-Saqaf
   <http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/board-trustees/walid-al-saqaf>,
   Board Trustee for the Internet Society (ISOC)
   -

   Lisl Brunner <https://twitter.com/brunnla>, Facilitator for the
   Telecommunications Industry Dialogue at The Global Network Initiative
   -

   Chinmayi Arun <https://twitter.com/chinmayiarun?lang=en>, Research
   Director of Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University,
   Delhi
   -

   Kenneth Carter <https://twitter.com/carterkr>, Counsel at CloudFlare, a
   website performance and security service that processes more than 5% of
   global web requests
   -

   Rebecca MacKinnon <https://twitter.com/rmack>, Author of Consent of the
   Networked, Co-founder of Ranking Digital Rights, GNI and Global Voices
   -

   Esther Dyson <https://twitter.com/edyson>, Entrepreneur, angel investor,
   and Principal of EDventure Holdings
   -

   Ronaldo Lemos <https://twitter.com/lemos_ronaldo>, founder of the Center
   for Technology & Society at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School
   Brazil
   -

   Christian Dawson <https://twitter.com/mrcjdawson>, Chairman and
   co-founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition)
   -

   Nicole Karlebach
   <http://yahoobhrp.tumblr.com/post/75544734087/yahoo-business-human-rights-program-yahoo>,
   Senior Legal Counsel, Business & Human Rights at Yahoo
   -

   Kevin Bankston
   <https://twitter.com/KevinBankston?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor>,
   Director of the Open Technology Institute (OTI) at New America
   -

   Andrew Puddephat, <https://twitter.com/AndrewPuddephat> Director, Global
   Partners and Associates
   -

   Katie Shay <https://twitter.com/km_shay>, Legal Counsel, Business &
   Human Rights at Yahoo
   -

   Brett Solomon <https://twitter.com/solomonbrett>, Executive Director and
   Co-founder, Access Now
   -

   Elinor Buxton, ‎Senior Cyber Research Analyst at Foreign and
   Commonwealth Office, UK Government
   -

   Eve Chaurand <https://twitter.com/evecandf>, General Counsel,
   Change.org, an online petition tool with over 100 million users
   -

   Wesley Diphoko <https://twitter.com/wesleydiphoko>, Founder of
   KayalabsOnline, an ICT4Development NGO based in South Africa
   -

   Ben Rowswell
   <https://twitter.com/benrowswell?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor>,
   Canada’s Ambassador to Venezuela, former chargé d’affaires in Baghdad/
   deputy head of mission in Kabul, Afghanistan
   -

   Andrew McLaughlin <https://twitter.com/McAndrew>,
   entrepreneur-in-residence at betaworks, former Deputy CTO at the White
   House, and former Director of Global Public Policy at Google.
   -

   David Pashman <https://twitter.com/davidpashman>, General Counsel at
   Meetup, co-chair of policy committee of NY Tech Meetup.
   -

   Keith Winstein <http://cs.stanford.edu/~keithw/>, Stanford Secure
   Internet of Things Project
   -

   Jochai Ben-Avie
   <https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/author/jbenaviemozilla-com/>, Senior
   Global Policy Manager at Mozilla, former Policy Director at Access Now

If you have any questions please feel free to ask Access Now's Rightscon
Coordinator Nick ( conference at accessnow.org.) or if you prefer to email me
on (ephraim at accessnow.org)

--

Best Regards,

*Ephraim Percy Kenyanito*
Website: http://about.me/ekenyanito
Twitter: @ekenyanito
PGP: E6BA8DC1
Blog: https://thediaryofaglobalcitizen.wordpress.com/

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*Due to popular demand, we've extended our program session submission
deadline to Monday, December 14th.* That means now is your time to act
quickly and help shape the agenda at RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016.
You can submit
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*Who you're joining: RightsCon speakers to date*

RightsCon 2016 is shaping up to be better than ever, with some of the
world's leading experts on technology and human rights confirmed to speak -
including *Bruce Schneier* (renowned security expert), *Nicole Wong* (former
US Deputy CTO), *Salil Shetty* (Secretary General of Amnesty
International), *Mathew Prince* (Co-Founder and CEO of CloudFlare), and
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Looking forward to seeing how your submissions will help shape the
RightsCon program!

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