CONFIRMED 2026 SPEAKERS

  • Jimmy Wales

    Founder of Wikipedia

  • Rikki Schlott

    Columnist, New York Post, and Media Fellow, CATO Institute

  • Sara Rogers

    Department of State Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy

  • Mark Sandler

    Chair, Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism

  • András Pethö

    Executive Director, Direkt36

  • Jeff Kosseff

    Nonresident Senior Legal Fellow, The Future of Free Speech

  • Beth Kerley

    Senior Program Officer, International Forum for Democratic Studies

  • Ahmad Ahmadian

    Founding Executive Director, Holistic Resilience

  • Mark Oppenheimer

    Advocate

  • Suzanne Nossel

    Senior Adviser, Democracy House

  • Nikola Ilic

    CEO, ChangeLab

  • Noam Lupu

    Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science

  • Johan Norberg

    Author, Speaker, and Historian of Ideas

  • Taylor Lorenz

    Taylor Lorenz

    Technology Journalist and Content Creator

  • Leopoldo López

    Venezuelan Opposition Leader and World Liberty Congress Co-Founder

  • Assita Kanko

    Member of European Parliament

  • Lilian Tintori

    Program Director, Political Prisoners Support Team

  • Mary Anne Franks

    Author, Commentator, and Legal Scholar at George Washington University Law School

  • Félix Maradiaga

    Nicaraguan Academic, Political Activist, and Former Presidential Candidate

  • Eugene Volokh

    Legal Scholar, Blogger, and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow

  • Nadine Strossen

    FIRE Senior Fellow and past ACLU President

  • Javier El-Hage

    Chief Legal & Policy Officer, Human Rights Foundation 

  • Jacob Mchangama

    Author, Research Professor, and Founder of The Future of Free Speech

  • Nigel Biggar

    Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology, University of Oxford

  • Francesca Procaccini

    Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University

  • Ge Chen

    Associate Professor in Global Media and Information Law, Durham University

  • Eka Gigauri

    Eka Gigauri

    Executive Director, Transparency International Georgia

  • Dave Willner

    Co-Founder at Zentropi

  • Toby Young

    Director, Free Speech Union

  • Mina Dennert

    Mina Dennert

    Founder, I Am Here International & Strategic Advisor on Psychological Defence

  • Natalie Alkiviadou

    Natalie Alkiviadou

    Senior Research Fellow, The Future of Free Speech

  • Alexandra Hudson

    Author, Founder of Civic Renaissance

  • Mike Masnick

    CEO & Editor, Copia Institute & Techdirt

  • Keri Lambert

    Vice President, Rutherford County Library Alliance (RCLA)

  • Jamil Assis

    Director, Sivis Institute

  • Iain Corby

    Executive Director, Age Verification Providers Association

  • Kevin Goldberg

    VP and First Amendment Expert, Freedom Forum

  • Nico Perrino

    Executive Vice President, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE

  • Jordi Calvet-Bademunt

    Senior Research Fellow, The Future of Free Speech

  • Isabelle Anzabi

    Research Associate, The Future of Free Speech

  • Ashkhen Kazaryan

    Senior Legal Fellow, The Future of Free Speech

  • Mary Kate Cary

    Founding Executive Director, John and Sandy Miller National Academy for Free Expression and Pluralism: University of Denver

  • Katrina Gulliver

    Editorial Director, Foundation for Economic Education

  • Katerina Eva Matsa

    Director, PEW Research Center

  • Jeffrey Howard

    Professor of Political Philosophy, University College London