OSLO
FREEDOM
FORUM
Virtual Conference
Sept. 24 – 25, 2020
Schedule of Events
September 24, 2020
Marianne Hagen
Gulchehra Hoja
Mohamed Nagi Alassam
Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit
Uyghur European Ensemble
Mainstage II (10:20 – 11:30 EDT)
Masih Alinejad
Christopher Balding
Ariel Ruiz Urquiola
Ahmed Albasheer
Audrey Tang
Networking Sessions
OFF Community Mixer
Meet the Freedom Fellows
Panel Discussions
Defending the Defenders: Right to Protect the Environment
- Melissa Mahtani, Senior producer/reporter for TV & Digital at CNN
- Abubakr Mohammad, Sudanese conservationist and independent researcher
- Alex Gonzalez Davidson, Environmental activist and founder of Cambodian NGO Mother Nature
- Cristina Burelli, Venezuelan-American entrepreneur and founder of V5Initiative
- Irina Sukhy, Chairwoman of the Green Network Council
Doing Business with China
- Melissa Chen, Editor for Spectator and Managing Director of Ideas Beyond Borders
- Kyle Bass, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital Management, and founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China
- Christopher Balding, China expert and Oslo Freedom Forum speaker
- Jenny Wang, HRF Strategic Advisor
State-Sponsored Hacking: Russia, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea
- Philippa Thomas, Journalist and BBC correspondent
- Andy Greenberg, Senior writer for WIRED
- Iyad el-Baghdadi, President of Kawaakibi Foundation
- Jieun Baek, Founder and Co-Director of Lumen
Workshops
Digital Hygiene for Human Rights Defenders
Digital Transformation During a Pandemic: Risks & Solutions
How to Talk to Journalists
How to Pitch an Op-Ed
How to Pitch an Op-Ed
How to Talk to Journalists
Digital Transformation During a Pandemic: Risks & Solutions
2020 on Twitter: Your Voice, Your Trust, and Safety
Panel Discussions
The Repressive Nature of Cuba’s Medical Brigades
- José Moya, Professor of History at Barnard College
- Maria Werlau, President of the Free Society Project
- Annarella O’Mahony, Cuban author and editor
- Vincent Geloso, Author and Assistant Professor at King’s University College
The Rise of Global Protests: Part I
- Srdja Popović, Expert in nonviolent resistance and leader of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS)
- Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor at University of Notre Dame and Hong Kong democracy movement scholar
- Farida Nabourema, Togolese human rights activist, blogger, and founder of the Faure Must Go movement
- Rafaela Requesens, Venezuelan activist and anti-government student protest leader
Uncovering China’s Mass Internment Camps
- Megha Rajagopalan, International correspondent at Buzzfeed
- Gulchehra Hoja, Uyghur journalist and Oslo Freedom Forum speaker
Workshops
Digital Hygiene for Human Rights Defenders
The One Trick Hackers Hate: A Conversation with JSR
Networking Sessions & Workshops
How to be a Guest on Live TV from Home or the Field
Impactful Video Storytelling: How Stories Change the World
OFF Community Mixer
All About Vietnam
Bitcoin Development Fund: Q & A
Digital Hygiene for Human Rights Defenders
September 25, 2020
Mainstage III (9:00 – 10:00 EDT)
Fatou Toufah Jallow
Lyudmila Savchuk
Nathan Law
Bryan Fogel
Mainstage IV (10:20 – 11:25 EDT)
Jack Dorsey
Eunhee Park
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
Buika
Havel Prize Ceremony (11:25 – 11:50 EDT)
Garry Kasparov
Ramy Essam
Panel Discussions
Protecting and Advancing LGBTQI Rights Globally
- Leyla Hussein, Somali anti-FGM activist and psychotherapist
- Julia Maciocha, Polish LGBTQI activist and Director of Warsaw Pride
- Asif Iqbal, Bangladeshi LGBTQI activist and writer
- Amir Ashour, Iraqi LGBTQI activist and executive director of IraQueer
The Rise of Global Protests: Part II
- Thor Halvorssen, President of the Human Rights Foundation
- Jamila Raqib, Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution
- Ayah Bdeir, Inventor and co-founder of Daleel Thawra, Directory of the Lebanese Revolution
- Se-Woong Koo, Founder of Korea Exposé
- Diana Riba, Member of the European Parliament, and pro-Catalonia independence activist
Uyghur Forced Labor and the Global Fashion Supply Chain
- Tu Rinsche, Vice President of Strategic Engagement & Partnerships of Transparentem
- Rushan Abbas, Founder and Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs
- Johnson Yeung, Campaigner & Urgent Appeal Coordinator at Clean Clothes Campaign
- Amy Lehr, Director of the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Cecilie Hellestveit, Lawyer, political scientist, and member of the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Petroleum Fund
Data Collection & Censorship in the Coronavirus Outbreak
- Paul Mozur, Technology Correspondent for The New York Times
- Sophia Yan, China Correspondent for The Telegraph
Workshops
Digital Hygiene for Human Rights Defenders
How to Pitch an Op-Ed
How to Talk to Journalists
How to be a Guest on Live TV from Home or the Field
Digital Transformation During a Pandemic: Risks & Solutions
2020 on Twitter: Your Voice, Your Trust, and Safety
How to Talk to Journalists
Digital Transformation During a Pandemic: Risks & Solutions
Panel Discussions
The Telegram Revolution in Belarus
- Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, and journalist
- Franak Viacorka, Belarusian democracy activist and journalist
- Hanna Liubakova, Journalist
- Aliaksandr Herasimenka, Researcher at the University of Oxford
The Politics of Saudi Arabia's Sportswashing and Entertainment PR Campaigns
- Ahmed Gatnash, Host of The Arab Tyrant Manual Podcast
- Garry Kasparov, HRF Chairman
- Areej al-Sadhan, Saudi activist
- Karim Zidan, Investigative journalist
Workshops
Digital Hygiene for Human Rights Defenders
Impactful Video Storytelling: How Stories Change the World
The One Trick Hackers Hate: A Conversation with JSR
Networking Sessions & Workshops
SHEroes: Women in Activism
Digital Hygiene for Human Rights Defenders
All About Vietnam
Challenges During Transition to Democracy
London Pub Unwind
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