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RightsCon Toronto 2018

Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon Toronto 2018. This year’s program, built by our global community, is our most ambitious one yet. Within the program, you will find 18 thematic tracks to help you navigate our 450+ sessions.

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Last updated: Version 2.3 (Updated May 15, 2018).

Lisa Jervis

Information Ecology
Principal Consultant
Oakland, CA

Lisa Jervis is a movement-building technology strategist with more than 20 years' experience building organizational infrastructure. She holds a Masters in Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley, where she nerded out big time on topics in information organization, work practice studies, computer-supported cooperative work, and user-centered design methods.

09:00 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Opening Ceremonies 206A

10:30 EDT

Making the Tech USABLE -- how to gather and share user feedback from our digital security trainings 200B Effective 21st Century Organizing: Learning From the Past, Building the Future 202B

11:00 EDT

Tech Policy Hackathons: how to encourage policy advocates and technologists to collaborate on digital rights Village Main Stage

17:15 EDT

Challenging our own digital security training communication and didactics 201B Scrutinizing the Little Brothers: Corporate Surveillance and the Roles of the Citizen, Consumer, and Company 203B Gendering Surveillance: From the Point of View of Marginalised Groups 206D

09:00 EDT

Help, We Are Under Attack! - a Peek into the Community of Rapid Responders 206A

10:30 EDT

Changes and Challenges, scary but necessary". Facing challenges in Digital Security Training models and how change could become a fantastic tool to achieve creative solutions 201A Secure UX Principles: Let's build a checklist for user security and good design 201C

12:00 EDT

My Network. My Choice - An overview of feminist and antipatriarchal autonomous infrastructures, from servers to hackerspaces 204A Prisoners' Rights in the Digital Age 205C

13:20 EDT

The future of Digital Security education for human rights defenders - developing sustainable continuous learning approaches 206C

14:30 EDT

Building Cross-sectoral Partnerships To Improve LGBTQIA Digital Security. 201A

16:00 EDT

Organizational Security for Organization Leaders 205C

17:15 EDT

Beyond security updates: Providing relevant, accessible, and sustainable digital security advice online 201C

09:00 EDT

Trainers Unite: Experience Exchange and Skill Building of Digital Security Trainers 204A What we don’t know about government intelligence sharing – Perspectives from the Global North and South 206C

10:30 EDT

Building Inclusive Community Based Digital Security Programs 200B Demystifying Organization Security Methodology 201A Lightning Talks: Testimony, Identity & Livelihood: Steps Toward Justice 205A

12:00 EDT

Abortion access in restricted settings: Tech challenges and opportunities 206B

13:20 EDT

Proceeding with Caution: Doing good work in difficult places 205C

14:30 EDT

Seen, Tweeted and Heard: It’s time to finally listen to Black women 206A The Internet Giants: concentration in the Internet layers and its impacts to freedom of expression and other human rights 206B

17:15 EDT

Building the anti-spyware toolbox: from reporting to lawsuits 205C