Digital Twin Strategy Powering the National Economy Workshop

Agenda

1330 - 1345 Welcome and Introduction

1345 - 1415 Digital Leadership for Digitalization is Done Together

1415 - 1445 Towards a Societal Challenge-Oriented Digital Twin-Based Way of Working

1445 - 1505 Break

1505 - 1510 Welcome Back and Introduction Next Session

1510 - 1540 National Digital twin (NLDT) - An Open Architecture Based on Interoperability and Modularity

1540 - 1625 Panel Discussion and Q&A Sessie

1625 - 1630 Summary - Thoughts of the Day - Take Aways

Speakers

Rob van der Velde

Executive Director
Geonovum
The Netherlands

Rob van de Velde founded Geonovum in 2007 and is currently executive director at Geonovum, the Dutch National SDI Executive Committee. Geonovum's mission is to realize better access to geo-information in the public sector and full integration of its services to public and industry. Geonovum's key task is coordinating the adoption and implementation of standards that ensure the functioning of the national spatial data infrastructure. In his current role he is strongly engaged in stimulating location awareness and organizing strategic cooperation amongst leaders in national and local government, academia and industry. Since 2008 he is member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

Rosemarie Mijlhoff-Portier

Senior Consultant
Geonovum
The Netherlands

Rosemarie assists public and private organizations to initiate multi stakeholder partnerships or help them to break out of a deadlock. She accomplishes this through hands-on advice, on-the-job coaching and (scientific) research on organizational and collaboration issues.

For Geonovum she supports the learning processes of the use cases and the collaborating parties involved, on developing and embracing a Digital Twin as an instrument for policy and decision-making processes related to the spatial societal challenges the Netherlands faces. Therefor she developed a learning methodology which helps organizations to change to a digital twin-based way of working more easily. Rosemarie holds a PhD on public and private network collaborations, and a MSc. on governance and organizational sciences.

Bart De Lathouwer

Senior Expert
Geonovum
The Netherlands

Bart helps public organizations with their Digital Twin architectures, so that they are future proof, interoperable and implementable by various players in the industry. He has developed Local Digital Twin architectures (large city level) as well as overarching architecture at a country level, combining the Digital Twins from various domains.

For Geonovum, Bart is a Senior Expert, known for his expertise in the geospatial industry and his leadership roles in various organizations. With a background in engineering and extensive experience in geospatial technology, Bart has contributed significantly to advancing the field's capabilities and applications. He has held key positions in organizations such as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), where he served as the President. Through his work, De Lathouwer has been instrumental in promoting interoperability and standards in the Digital Twin community, fostering collaboration, and driving innovation in the field.

Lianne Sleebos

Program manager Network of (Local) Digital Twins (NLDT)
BZK
The Netherlands

Lianne is program manager Network of (Local) Digital Twins (NLDT) at the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affaire. The program aims to actively facilitate the development of Digital Twinning within existing 'triple helix' ecosystems to support policy- and decision-making processes of cross-sector social challenges in spatial planning. She works at the intersection between IT and Business, gets excited about challenging the 'status quo' and optimizing with a win-win-win mentality. Her strength lies in stakeholder management and coordinating (project) teams to realize IT products and services. Lianne studied innovation management and holds a MSc. Industrial Design Engineering at the Technical University of Delft. She has a range of valuable work experience in IT (program) management within the public and private sector including TU Delft, Schiphol Group, National Office for Identity Data (RvIG).

Arie Versluis

Manager Knowledge and (Geo) Information
Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
The Netherlands

Mieke van Schaik

Strategic Information Adviser
Gemeente Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Niels van der Graaf

Business Unit Manager Government - on behalf of CEO Wouter Brokx
Imagem
The Netherlands

Niels is Business Unit Manager Government at IMAGEM. His mission is to help the government to continuously work smarter and shorten decision making time by using smart digital reality solutions.

His primary focus is on delivering solutions, expertise, and knowledge to achieve the business goals of his relations. This entails providing software, consultancy, and professional services.

Henk Scholten

Director Research
Geodan
The Netherlands

From 1990 till 2021 he was professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, holding the chair of Spatial Informatics. From 2021 he is Guest Professor at the Vrije Universiteit. From 2017 till 2021 professor Scholten was Lead Scientist at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) to develop novel CAS (Centre for Advanced Studies) projects on Digital Transformation - Machine Intelligence and Human Behaviour. In this function, he established project plans contributing to high profile scientific results.

He was honoured in 2016 with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Geospatial Media and Communications for his contribution to the overall development of GIS/geospatial community worldwide. Together with his Research team he won the prestigious BIM World Digital Twin Award in Paris in 2023 and 2024.

Overview

A Digital Twin (DT) is a virtual representation of a physical object, that is periodic updated in lifecycle and uses real-time date. The DT enables stakeholders of the system to visualize the data in 3D, and enables simulation of consequences of future interventions, which can aid in enhanced decision-making. As a digital tool, the Digital Twins play a pivotal role in powering the national economy by enabling stakeholders to make better decisions across all the major sectors of the economy. A national Digital Twin, which is an interconnected system of Digital Twins built for different use cases in different domains, can aid in informed decision-making with regard to the multi-dimensional challenges which span multiple domains.

The development of a national Digital Twin necessitates understanding regarding the challenges faced by key user sectors in the country. The Digital Twin initiatives which are a part of the national Digital Twin should therefore also be aligned with the strategic development priorities of the country. This raises the need for co-operation and collaboration between data producers and users across sectors, including both government and private stakeholders. The implementation of a national Digital Twin also requires the buy-in from the policymakers across domains due to its multidisciplinary nature, which emphasizes the importance of demonstration of the impact of Digital Twins in the national economy.

The development of a national Digital Twin in The Netherlands can be fast-tracked through the development of a comprehensive national Digital Twin strategy which define the standards, processes, tools, and mechanisms which can help drive the growth of Digital Twins. The development and expansion of National Geospatial Information Infrastructure (NGII) is foundational for the implementation of a national Digital Twin. Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI) framework which places the principles of user-centricity, private sector participation, collaboration, and knowledge creation at its core, can aid in the integration of demand-driven, real-time data from diverse stakeholders, and development of a knowledge-focused NGII which can in turn aid in the development of the national Digital Twin. A national Digital Twin strategy developed in alignment with the principles of GKI will aid in driving Digital Twin maturity across domains and enhancing impact of Digital Twins across diverse domains of the economy and society.

Goal

The presentations and panel discussion aims to bring together stakeholders involved in the development of Digital Twins across domains and themes, with geospatial data providers, users across domains, and policymakers to discuss and debate the components of a strategy which will aid in the development of a interoperable National Digital Twin in The Netherlands.

Objectives

To ensure alignment of the Digital Twin initiatives with strategic priorities of The Netherlands

To encourage collaboration between Digital Twins from diverse domains and themes via interoperability and modularity

To ideate components of a Digital Twin Strategy for The Netherlands in alignment with GKI principles

Session Highlights

Towards a societal challenge-oriented Digital Twin-based way of working

National Digital Twin (NLDT) – An Open architecture based on interoperability and modularity. In short, build to work together.

Digital leadership for digitalization is done together. The major cities of Netherlands are joining forces.

Panel discussion and a Q&A session with the audience

Digital Twin Strategy Powering the National Economy

Co-Host