On Tuesday, June 2, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) will host the Freedom Tech track at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum.
This track will explore how new technologies are weaponized by authoritarian regimes and how tools like Bitcoin, offline messaging like Bitchat, decentralized communication protocols like Nostr, and open-source AI are helping human rights defenders on the front lines transact, communicate, and organize where they otherwise could not.
Meet the Freedom Tech Speakers
Leopoldo López
Co-founder, World Liberty Congress
Farida Nabourema
Founder, Africa Bitcoin Conference; Genesis Committee, Finney Freedom Prize
Anaïse Kanimba
Director and Founder, Africa Bitcoin Institute
Álvaro Salas Castro
President & CEO, The Reynolds Foundation
Félix Maradiaga
President, World Liberty Congress
Fergus Ryan
Senior China Analyst, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Alex Gladstein
Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation
Elizabeth Stark
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lightning Labs
Matt Corallo
Bitcoin Open-Source Engineer, Spiral
Seongmin Lee
Director of Korea Desk, Human Rights Foundation
Justin Moon
AI Technical Lead, Human Rights Foundation
Ben Perrin
Bitcoin Educator, BTC Sessions
Reyna Chicas
Bitcoin Training Coordinator, My First Bitcoin
Abubakar Nur Khalil
Chief Executive Officer, Btrust
niftynei
Founder, bitcoin++ and Base58, Genesis Committee, Finney Freedom Prize
Janet Maingi
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Gridless
Obi Nwosu
Chief Executive Officer, Fedi; Genesis Committee, Finney Freedom Prize
