Ms. Hyland is CEO of 3 Round Stones, a Linked Data company based Washington,D.C., and co-chair of the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group. Bernadette is an advocate of open data and Web standards for better knowledge sharing. She has been a founder of several successful startup companies and actively supported Open Source projects related to RDF and Linked Data, including the Mulgara Semantic Store, Persistent URLs and the Callimachus Project. She is an editor of the W3C Best Practices for Government Linked Data and author of peer reviewed chapters on Linked Data.