Dr Robert Woodcock is a Research Scientist and Consultant in Earth Data and Analytics infrastructures with CSIRO Minerals and CSIRO Space and Astronomy. Data and its conversion to useful, decision supporting information is a universal need for business, community, and Government across a broad range of areas from improving business operations through application in decision support at a national and international levels in earth resource, urban and environmental management. As our ability to gather data has grown exponentially, so has our need to manage the flow of information within and between organisations and to make it useful. Dr Woodcock and his teams have address the issues of information flow across organisational boundaries and have developed innovative information systems adopted into national infrastructure and achieved lasting large scale economic impact on multiple organisations. Dr Woodcock's portfolio of activities involves national spatial data infrastructure and CSIRO Earth Analytics Science Innovation Cloud platform. His team’s portfolio has seen national application in Australian Industry and Government including the AuScope national geoscience information infrastructure. Internationally, he is a member of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and Chair for the CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services. Robert has worked for almost two decades in the field of visualisation, spatial information systems and analytics and its application to Earth Science with a focus on ensuring research innovation leads to business innovation.