Roland is from origin a city planner, but always with a fascination for digital and data. The last 10 years he really focused on how the digital transformation is fundamentally changing the reality we live in.

Our ‘traditional’ social-physical world is more and more connected with the digital reality. Our behaviour, our challenges and therefor our city is affected by all this. In his current ‘digital city’-program he was responsible for a new vision on the city ‘Rotterdam in transformation’ and the development of a digital infrastructure for the city of Rotterdam in the form of an Open Urban Platform with Digital Twin, which will go operational in January of next year.

In Oktober he started a new program ‘Rotterdam Citiverse’, which will mainly focus on the social impact of the digital transformation, and in which the digital twin will be developed in the direction of the citiverse.