[Announce] Everything Open 2026: Announcing Emma Davidson as a keynote

[Everything Open Team]

We are pleased to announce Emma Davidson will be presenting a keynote at Everything Open in Canberra.

## About Emma Davidson

Emma works in the university sector to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in Australian university technology courses like computing and software engineering. She has previously been the ACT Minister for Disability; Minister for Mental Health; Minister for Population Health; Minister for Community Services, Seniors and Veterans; Minister for Corrections and Justice Health; and ACT Greens spokesperson for Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence, and Digital Technology.

She has worked as a social researcher and advocate in public health, housing affordability, and social determinants of women’s health and criminogenic pathways. Half her working life has been in open source software development and management in private and public sector and in Navy.

Emma has been a volunteer worker and radical love activist for most of her life. She lives on Ngunnawal country (Canberra) with her family and dogs, blocks coal ships in kayaks despite not being able to swim, loves live music, and falls over a lot while skating. Her current preferred distro is Mint XFCE, but her ideal work setup requires multiple operating systems (not THAT operating system).

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Please remember that all attendees need to abide by our Code of Conduct <https://2026.everythingopen.au/attend/code-of-conduct/>.
If you have questions please contact the Organising Team via email at contact at everythingopen.au.

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