Dr Bernadette Hyland-Wood co-leads the QUT Responsible Data Science Program within the QUT Centre for Data Science in Brisbane and is an Affiliated Investigator within the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. During the second decade of the Web, she helped pioneer graph data technologies that are foundational digital platform infrastructure for the Web, including international data standards and best practices for linking data. As an invited expert to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Bernadette chaired the working group charted to formulate Web data standards used by governments to share open public data. Bernadette was founder of Brisbane-based Plugged In Software P/L, an early Web studio and went on to lead three startups including a spin-out from MIT that pioneered the use of semantic technologies and linked data globally.  Dr Hyland-Wood has authored highly cited publications on graph technologies for AI and ML, public data supply, and highly cited research on crisis communications during COVID-19. She contributes to national data legislation, including the U.S. DATA Act and has been featured in media outlets, including the ABC and Radio New Zealand. She is a co-founder of Women in Technology and received WiT’s Outstanding Achievement Award sponsored by AWS and WiT’s Established Entrepreneur Award sponsored by Queensland Government (2017).