Strategische Agenda 2022-2025

Strategic Agenda - Focus on the Future, Fast Forward Now 9 Deltares, with the application of key enabling technologies occupying a special place. Software, data and key enabling technologies We make continuous assessments in the development of our software systems, which are strategically important for research on behalf of national and international missions and agendas. Examples are the development of the 1D2D functionality of D-Hydro for regional and urban applications. The IWRMmodel instruments for drought, water scarcity, water allocation and integrated water management. Delft3D FM functionalities for the 3Dmodelling of morphology, water quality and ecology. And the probabilistic toolbox for risk and reliability analyses of geotechnical and hydraulic structures and networks. We generally supply the software in our open-source approach for users and co-developers. Our software is used worldwide by more than 27,000 users in more than 140 countries. By using and sharing the software that we develop ourselves and with others, we make knowledge available for the development, testing and optimisation of solutions to complex issues. By doing so, we also strengthen the competitive position of Dutch business. The field of available data, data-driven methods and computing power is advancing rapidly. This is not new for Deltares. For decades, the Deltares knowledge base has been based on experimental research, numerical analyses and statistics. In other words, on the generation and use of data, and the combination and exploration of different techniques. In the past four years, we have also delivered interesting applications for large datasets in the leading echelons of the scientific world. Since 2018, we have been furthering the use of key enabling technologies. Deltares sees digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, high performance computing and sensoring (earth observation, measurement and monitoring) as important key enabling technologies. As one of the initiators of DigiShape, Deltares searches for effective applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) andMachine Learning (ML) in co-creation with the Dutch water sector. Our knowledge base is in good shape but it also requires a larger investment. The importance of software and data for our impact and position increases all the time. Software is and will remain an important knowledge carrier and an important part of our knowledge development process. We expect that we will increasingly want to combine data- driven techniques with process-driven modelling in the near future. Moreover, we are already seeing that the rapidly expanding quantities of data and the demand for software and data services require the increasing use of cloud technology and high performance computing. It is important for our software products to be flexible so that we can continue to integrate these, and subsequent, innovations in our working methods. So that we can also contribute in the future as a leading knowledge partner for government authorities and private bodies.