Event
Community of Practice 2026
The Tygron Community of Practice (CoP) is the annual gathering where users, experts, and partners share knowledge and discover new applications.
Event
Community of Practice 2026
The Tygron Community of Practice (CoP) is the annual gathering where users, experts, and partners share knowledge and discover new applications.
Event
Community of Practice 2026
The Tygron Community of Practice (CoP) is the annual gathering where users, experts, and partners share knowledge and discover new applications.
Event
14th Tygron Community of Practice – October 29, 2026
During the Tygron Community of Practice 2026, users, experts, and partners will come together to share knowledge and experiences and to discover new applications.
From water and climate adaptation to area development and data-driven decision-making: users will demonstrate how they deploy Tygron for concrete spatial challenges. With practical examples, in-depth sessions, and hands-on workshops, there will be plenty of opportunities to learn from one another and get to work.
During this CoP, we will also launch the latest developments: Tygron AI 2026. In various sessions, we will show what AI makes possible within the Tygron Platform, how users are already working with it, and how you can get started yourself. We will also address the choices behind Tygron AI. In doing so, a key principle remains central: as a user, you maintain insight and control over your data, models, and results.
Event
14th Tygron Community of Practice – October 29, 2026
During the Tygron Community of Practice 2026, users, experts, and partners will come together to share knowledge and experiences and to discover new applications.
From water and climate adaptation to area development and data-driven decision-making: users will demonstrate how they deploy Tygron for concrete spatial challenges. With practical examples, in-depth sessions, and hands-on workshops, there will be plenty of opportunities to learn from one another and get to work.
During this CoP, we will also launch the latest developments: Tygron AI 2026. In various sessions, we will show what AI makes possible within the Tygron Platform, how users are already working with it, and how you can get started yourself. We will also address the choices behind Tygron AI. In doing so, a key principle remains central: as a user, you maintain insight and control over your data, models, and results.
Program
overview
Program
overview
8:45 - 9:30 | Welcome with coffee, tea, and cookies
8:45 - 9:30 | Welcome with coffee, tea, and cookies
8:45 - 9:30 | Welcome with coffee, tea, and cookies
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:35 PM
1:00 PM - 1:35 PM
1:00 PM - 1:35 PM
1:45 PM - 2:20 PM
1:45 PM - 2:20 PM
1:45 PM - 2:20 PM
14:20 - 15:00 | Break
14:20 - 15:00 | Break
14:20 - 15:00 | Break
3:00 PM - 3:35 PM
3:00 PM - 3:35 PM
3:00 PM - 3:35 PM
3:40 PM - 4:15 PM
3:40 PM - 4:15 PM
3:40 PM - 4:15 PM
16.15 | Drinks
16.15 | Drinks
16.15 | Drinks
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Plenary opening
9.30 – 10.10
The bigger picture: moving forward together towards better decision-making
The Tygron Platform is being used increasingly widely: for more applications and in more and more fields of work. We open the CoP with the bigger picture: where do we stand, what do we see among our users, and which developments are coming together? From water and climate adaptation to area development and data-driven decision-making.
This year, Tygron AI 2026 is an important part of that story. The latest developments will become available to all users during this CoP. We look at what the arrival of AI means for the platform, what new possibilities this creates, and how this fits with the way Tygron is developing.
What changes with the arrival of AI – and how do we ensure that you, as a user, maintain insight and control over your data, models, and results?
Plenary opening
9.30 – 10.10
The bigger picture: moving forward together towards better decision-making
The Tygron Platform is being used increasingly widely: for more applications and in more and more fields of work. We open the CoP with the bigger picture: where do we stand, what do we see among our users, and which developments are coming together? From water and climate adaptation to area development and data-driven decision-making.
This year, Tygron AI 2026 is an important part of that story. The latest developments will become available to all users during this CoP. We look at what the arrival of AI means for the platform, what new possibilities this creates, and how this fits with the way Tygron is developing.
What changes with the arrival of AI – and how do we ensure that you, as a user, maintain insight and control over your data, models, and results?
Hall 2. Municipal task
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
From policy to an integrated assessment framework for area development
Municipalities and provinces are working on a wide range of policy goals for the living environment, such as housing, green spaces, health, climate adaptation, mobility, and broad prosperity. These ambitions come together in area development.
But how do you translate policy into concrete indicators? How do you use these to make the effects of plans and scenarios transparent? And how do you arrive at an integrated assessment framework that helps in making choices?
Various municipalities and provinces are already working on this. The challenge is not to reinvent the wheel everywhere, but to share knowledge, indicators, and methodologies with each other and, where possible, reuse them.
In this session, we combine practical examples with an interactive working method. Together we will explore: what can municipalities and provinces adopt from each other, what remains local customisation, and how can we structurally share knowledge and methodologies with one another?
The goal is not to arrive at a single universal set of indicators in 90 minutes, but to discover how we, as a Community of Practice, can build further together on what already exists.
This is a sub-session, specifically for policy officers of municipalities and provinces. This session is organised in collaboration with the Province of Utrecht and the Data and Knowledge Hub Healthy Urban Living.
Hall 2. Municipal task
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
From policy to an integrated assessment framework for area development
Municipalities and provinces are working on a wide range of policy goals for the living environment, such as housing, green spaces, health, climate adaptation, mobility, and broad prosperity. These ambitions come together in area development.
But how do you translate policy into concrete indicators? How do you use these to make the effects of plans and scenarios transparent? And how do you arrive at an integrated assessment framework that helps in making choices?
Various municipalities and provinces are already working on this. The challenge is not to reinvent the wheel everywhere, but to share knowledge, indicators, and methodologies with each other and, where possible, reuse them.
In this session, we combine practical examples with an interactive working method. Together we will explore: what can municipalities and provinces adopt from each other, what remains local customisation, and how can we structurally share knowledge and methodologies with one another?
The goal is not to arrive at a single universal set of indicators in 90 minutes, but to discover how we, as a Community of Practice, can build further together on what already exists.
This is a sub-session, specifically for policy officers of municipalities and provinces. This session is organised in collaboration with the Province of Utrecht and the Data and Knowledge Hub Healthy Urban Living.
Hall 3. Tygron AI 2026
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Further Development and Test Session
Maxim Knepflé, Frank Baars (Tygron) and Per Prins (Urban Sync)
During the CoP, Tygron AI 2026 will become available to all users of the Tygron Platform. But what can you actually do with it?
In this session, you will get a broad overview of the possibilities based on concrete examples. We combine the latest applications from Tygron with the experiences of users from the AI core group, who are already experimenting intensively with Tygron AI.
We will show what has been created, how AI was used, and what we have learned from this. What works well, where are the limitations, and what new applications are we discovering?
For new users, this is an opportunity to quickly discover what is possible; for experienced users, it is a moment to exchange experiences, learn from each other, and gain new ideas.
Hall 3. Tygron AI 2026
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Further Development and Test Session
Maxim Knepflé, Frank Baars (Tygron) and Per Prins (Urban Sync)
During the CoP, Tygron AI 2026 will become available to all users of the Tygron Platform. But what can you actually do with it?
In this session, you will get a broad overview of the possibilities based on concrete examples. We combine the latest applications from Tygron with the experiences of users from the AI core group, who are already experimenting intensively with Tygron AI.
We will show what has been created, how AI was used, and what we have learned from this. What works well, where are the limitations, and what new applications are we discovering?
For new users, this is an opportunity to quickly discover what is possible; for experienced users, it is a moment to exchange experiences, learn from each other, and gain new ideas.
Hall 4. Practical Work Sessions
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
QuickStart: getting started with Tygron
By: Vincent van Diermen and Rudolf Koster (Tygron)
Do you want to learn how to work with Tygron? In this practical QuickStart, you will be introduced to the basics of the platform and build your first Digital Twin step by step.
You will learn, among other things, how to create a project for your own area, how to add your own data, and how to use information and calculations within the platform.
Participants who do not yet have access to the Tygron Platform will receive a free, no-obligation trial license for one month. In this session, you will learn the basics of how to work with it.
Bring your own laptop. Experience with Tygron is not required.
A limited number of spots are available for this session, so make sure to register on time
Target audience: beginners
Hall 4. Practical Work Sessions
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
QuickStart: getting started with Tygron
By: Vincent van Diermen and Rudolf Koster (Tygron)
Do you want to learn how to work with Tygron? In this practical QuickStart, you will be introduced to the basics of the platform and build your first Digital Twin step by step.
You will learn, among other things, how to create a project for your own area, how to add your own data, and how to use information and calculations within the platform.
Participants who do not yet have access to the Tygron Platform will receive a free, no-obligation trial license for one month. In this session, you will learn the basics of how to work with it.
Bring your own laptop. Experience with Tygron is not required.
A limited number of spots are available for this session, so make sure to register on time
Target audience: beginners
Hall 1. Practical application
1:00 PM – 1:35 PM
Beyond the nature restoration law: tree policy that actually works
Speaker: Wil Jacobs, Green As A Service (GAES)
How do you translate ambitions for a green, healthy and climate-resilient living environment into tree policy that works in practice?
Using a concrete municipal case study, Green As A Service (GAES) shows how to gain insight into how trees actually develop and what contribution they make to municipal objectives. Among other things, the 3-30-300 rule is examined, as well as the question of how to move from a policy goal to concrete, measurable results in public spaces.
The session shows how insight into the development and performance of trees can help to better substantiate choices regarding planting, management and replacement. Not just: how many trees are there? But above all: how do we ensure that the greenery develops in such a way that the intended social and ecological value is actually realized?
Hall 1. Practical application
1:00 PM – 1:35 PM
Beyond the nature restoration law: tree policy that actually works
Speaker: Wil Jacobs, Green As A Service (GAES)
How do you translate ambitions for a green, healthy and climate-resilient living environment into tree policy that works in practice?
Using a concrete municipal case study, Green As A Service (GAES) shows how to gain insight into how trees actually develop and what contribution they make to municipal objectives. Among other things, the 3-30-300 rule is examined, as well as the question of how to move from a policy goal to concrete, measurable results in public spaces.
The session shows how insight into the development and performance of trees can help to better substantiate choices regarding planting, management and replacement. Not just: how many trees are there? But above all: how do we ensure that the greenery develops in such a way that the intended social and ecological value is actually realized?
Hall 2. Municipal task
1:00 PM – 1:35 PM
Integrated assessment for a healthy living environment – can that be learned?
Speakers: Stephen van Aken (Province of Utrecht), Saskia Klumpers (HAS green Academy), Florian Witsenburg (Tygron)
How do you ensure that health is actually taken into account when making choices about the living environment? And what is needed to make integrated assessment part of daily practice within a municipality?
The HAS green Academy, together with the province of Utrecht, organizes the course Integrated assessment for a healthy living environment for municipalities in the province of Utrecht. Various policy officers have participated in this over the past few years. In this session, together with participants and involved organizations, we look at what happens next. Is the acquired knowledge being applied? Are work processes or methods of assessment changing? And what obstacles do policy officers encounter within their organization?
Based on these experiences, we explore more broadly what is needed to put integrated assessment into practice and make it part of daily work. This makes the session interesting for policy officers as well as experts who are dealing with this issue within their own organization.
The course is organized for municipalities in the province of Utrecht and, if there is sufficient interest, can also be offered to other municipalities through the HAS green Academy.
Hall 2. Municipal task
1:00 PM – 1:35 PM
Integrated assessment for a healthy living environment – can that be learned?
Speakers: Stephen van Aken (Province of Utrecht), Saskia Klumpers (HAS green Academy), Florian Witsenburg (Tygron)
How do you ensure that health is actually taken into account when making choices about the living environment? And what is needed to make integrated assessment part of daily practice within a municipality?
The HAS green Academy, together with the province of Utrecht, organizes the course Integrated assessment for a healthy living environment for municipalities in the province of Utrecht. Various policy officers have participated in this over the past few years. In this session, together with participants and involved organizations, we look at what happens next. Is the acquired knowledge being applied? Are work processes or methods of assessment changing? And what obstacles do policy officers encounter within their organization?
Based on these experiences, we explore more broadly what is needed to put integrated assessment into practice and make it part of daily work. This makes the session interesting for policy officers as well as experts who are dealing with this issue within their own organization.
The course is organized for municipalities in the province of Utrecht and, if there is sufficient interest, can also be offered to other municipalities through the HAS green Academy.
Hall 3. Tygron AI 2026
1:00 PM – 1:35 PM
A look under the hood; Choices, trade-offs and technology behind Tygron AI
Speaker: Maxim Knepflé (Tygron)
How does Tygron AI 2026 actually work? In this in-depth session, we look at the design choices underlying the Tygron AI technology based on three topics: sustainability, privacy, and ethics.
Anyone who says AI quickly thinks of energy-guzzling data centers, but by making smart choices in smaller specialized models, the same question can be answered just as well with a factor of 10x less energy.
Tygron attaches great value to data privacy and therefore chooses state-of-the-art open-source models that run 100% on our own ISO27001 certified GPU infrastructure. This unique setup ensures that we are independent and can guarantee real privacy.
Finally, we reflect on the ethical side; we choose open-source models and transparency in what we build. But in addition, we also discuss with our users the choices in what we deliberately do and do not want to leave to AI, and how we can control what happens.
A session for anyone who wants to look beyond the applications and understand how Tygron AI is built, why we make certain choices, and what those choices mean for you as a user.
Hall 3. Tygron AI 2026
1:00 PM – 1:35 PM
A look under the hood; Choices, trade-offs and technology behind Tygron AI
Speaker: Maxim Knepflé (Tygron)
How does Tygron AI 2026 actually work? In this in-depth session, we look at the design choices underlying the Tygron AI technology based on three topics: sustainability, privacy, and ethics.
Anyone who says AI quickly thinks of energy-guzzling data centers, but by making smart choices in smaller specialized models, the same question can be answered just as well with a factor of 10x less energy.
Tygron attaches great value to data privacy and therefore chooses state-of-the-art open-source models that run 100% on our own ISO27001 certified GPU infrastructure. This unique setup ensures that we are independent and can guarantee real privacy.
Finally, we reflect on the ethical side; we choose open-source models and transparency in what we build. But in addition, we also discuss with our users the choices in what we deliberately do and do not want to leave to AI, and how we can control what happens.
A session for anyone who wants to look beyond the applications and understand how Tygron AI is built, why we make certain choices, and what those choices mean for you as a user.
Hall 4. Practical Work Sessions
1:00 PM – 1:35 PM
Travel Distance Overlay – analyzing and improving accessibility
By: Vincent van Diermen and Rudolf Koster (Tygron)
How easily accessible are homes, amenities, and other destinations in reality? And what happens to that accessibility if you add a new connection, amenity, or other measure?
With the Travel Distance Overlay, you can analyze accessibility via the network in your Digital Twin. For example, you can investigate which homes are within walking distance of a park or school, which areas have access to certain amenities, and where the bottlenecks in accessibility lie.
In this practical workshop, you will work with the Travel Distance Overlay yourself. You will learn to set up destinations and routes, incorporate different modes of transport, and interpret the results. You will then modify the situation and recalculate: what effect does a measure have on the accessibility of an area?
This way, you will not only learn how the functionality works, but especially how to use it to investigate spatial choices and scenarios.
This is a workshop, please bring your own laptop.
Who is this session for? users with some experience to experienced users
Hall 4. Practical Work Sessions
1:00 PM – 1:35 PM
Travel Distance Overlay – analyzing and improving accessibility
By: Vincent van Diermen and Rudolf Koster (Tygron)
How easily accessible are homes, amenities, and other destinations in reality? And what happens to that accessibility if you add a new connection, amenity, or other measure?
With the Travel Distance Overlay, you can analyze accessibility via the network in your Digital Twin. For example, you can investigate which homes are within walking distance of a park or school, which areas have access to certain amenities, and where the bottlenecks in accessibility lie.
In this practical workshop, you will work with the Travel Distance Overlay yourself. You will learn to set up destinations and routes, incorporate different modes of transport, and interpret the results. You will then modify the situation and recalculate: what effect does a measure have on the accessibility of an area?
This way, you will not only learn how the functionality works, but especially how to use it to investigate spatial choices and scenarios.
This is a workshop, please bring your own laptop.
Who is this session for? users with some experience to experienced users
Hall 1. Practical application
1.45 PM – 2.20 PM
Climate-resilient (re)design of the built environment in practice
Speaker: Adriaan Dekkers (Buro Regen&Water)
Buro Regen & Water designs pragmatic climate measures in the built environment. We often join when the redesign plan is already in place and most choices have been made. Precisely then, the question becomes critical: which measures are still feasible, and where do they deliver the most benefit?
We quantify the water storage and rainwater challenge in a data-driven way, so that it is clear for each location what a measure does. We then bring this outcome to the table with everyone involved: municipality, housing association, design firm, developer, and resident. We visually demonstrate what a choice means for each of them. That is our role as a climate intermediary. We ensure that analysis, design, and execution align, so that a project does not get stuck in the transfer between parties.
In this session, we will use concrete cases from the municipalities of Amsterdam and Hilversum to discuss how this approach works in practice. What space is there within existing plans to improve climate resilience, what trade-offs do you encounter, and how do you ultimately arrive at measures that are actually feasible?
Hall 1. Practical application
1.45 PM – 2.20 PM
Climate-resilient (re)design of the built environment in practice
Speaker: Adriaan Dekkers (Buro Regen&Water)
Buro Regen & Water designs pragmatic climate measures in the built environment. We often join when the redesign plan is already in place and most choices have been made. Precisely then, the question becomes critical: which measures are still feasible, and where do they deliver the most benefit?
We quantify the water storage and rainwater challenge in a data-driven way, so that it is clear for each location what a measure does. We then bring this outcome to the table with everyone involved: municipality, housing association, design firm, developer, and resident. We visually demonstrate what a choice means for each of them. That is our role as a climate intermediary. We ensure that analysis, design, and execution align, so that a project does not get stuck in the transfer between parties.
In this session, we will use concrete cases from the municipalities of Amsterdam and Hilversum to discuss how this approach works in practice. What space is there within existing plans to improve climate resilience, what trade-offs do you encounter, and how do you ultimately arrive at measures that are actually feasible?
Hall 2. Municipal task
1:45 PM – 2:20 PM
Data-driven greening: where is there still room?
Speakers: John Joosten (Province of Flevoland) and Jan Bruijn (CROW)
Municipalities have strong ambitions to green public spaces, but underground it is often already quite crowded. Cables, pipes, sewerage, and other infrastructure limit the space for new trees, for example.
CROW, the Province of Flevoland, and the municipality of Dronten investigated how data and a Digital Twin can help make this spatial puzzle visible.
In this session, they share their approach and practical experiences. Additionally, CROW explores how this working method can also be of value to other organizations. We would like to discuss this with each other: where do opportunities lie and what questions are playing in the field?
Hall 2. Municipal task
1:45 PM – 2:20 PM
Data-driven greening: where is there still room?
Speakers: John Joosten (Province of Flevoland) and Jan Bruijn (CROW)
Municipalities have strong ambitions to green public spaces, but underground it is often already quite crowded. Cables, pipes, sewerage, and other infrastructure limit the space for new trees, for example.
CROW, the Province of Flevoland, and the municipality of Dronten investigated how data and a Digital Twin can help make this spatial puzzle visible.
In this session, they share their approach and practical experiences. Additionally, CROW explores how this working method can also be of value to other organizations. We would like to discuss this with each other: where do opportunities lie and what questions are playing in the field?
Hall 3. AI for hydrologists
1.45 PM – 2.20 PM
C-watercourses in view for better water system analyses
Speakers: Harmen van de Werfhorst (Waterschap Vallei en Veluwe) and Ward van Laatum (Tygron)
What can AI mean for the work of a hydrologist? In this session, we make that concrete through one application: detecting C-watercourses using AI.
C-watercourses are important for properly modeling the water system at a high level of detail, but are not yet fully charted everywhere. Water Authority Vallei en Veluwe is therefore working with a neural network to detect these watercourses and thus supplement the available source data.
In this session, we show how the neural network is deployed, what it delivers, and how the results can contribute to better hydrological modeling. A concrete practical case that shows how AI can help address a difficult challenge for hydrologists in a new way.
Hall 3. AI for hydrologists
1.45 PM – 2.20 PM
C-watercourses in view for better water system analyses
Speakers: Harmen van de Werfhorst (Waterschap Vallei en Veluwe) and Ward van Laatum (Tygron)
What can AI mean for the work of a hydrologist? In this session, we make that concrete through one application: detecting C-watercourses using AI.
C-watercourses are important for properly modeling the water system at a high level of detail, but are not yet fully charted everywhere. Water Authority Vallei en Veluwe is therefore working with a neural network to detect these watercourses and thus supplement the available source data.
In this session, we show how the neural network is deployed, what it delivers, and how the results can contribute to better hydrological modeling. A concrete practical case that shows how AI can help address a difficult challenge for hydrologists in a new way.
Hall 4. Practical Workshops
1:45 PM – 2:20 PM
Build your own spatial analysis with Combo Overlays
Speaker: Len Geisler (Tygron)
With Combo Overlays, you can build large-scale spatial analyses by combining various data sources and calculation results into a single new result. This allows you to answer questions such as: where do heat stress, lack of greenery, and high population density coincide? Or where does flooding cause the greatest risks?
In this session, you will learn how Combo Overlays work and how to build them yourself. You will learn to combine data and overlays, work with formulas and conditions, and translate a spatial question into an analysis. This way, you not only understand the result but also maintain control over what is being calculated.
Tygron AI 2026 makes building Combo Overlays a lot easier. At the end of the session, we will demonstrate how AI can assist you with this. While AI can speed up the process, keeping control of your model requires that you understand what is happening under the hood yourself.
This is a workshop session, please bring your own laptop.
Who is this session for? Users with some experience to experienced users
Hall 4. Practical Workshops
1:45 PM – 2:20 PM
Build your own spatial analysis with Combo Overlays
Speaker: Len Geisler (Tygron)
With Combo Overlays, you can build large-scale spatial analyses by combining various data sources and calculation results into a single new result. This allows you to answer questions such as: where do heat stress, lack of greenery, and high population density coincide? Or where does flooding cause the greatest risks?
In this session, you will learn how Combo Overlays work and how to build them yourself. You will learn to combine data and overlays, work with formulas and conditions, and translate a spatial question into an analysis. This way, you not only understand the result but also maintain control over what is being calculated.
Tygron AI 2026 makes building Combo Overlays a lot easier. At the end of the session, we will demonstrate how AI can assist you with this. While AI can speed up the process, keeping control of your model requires that you understand what is happening under the hood yourself.
This is a workshop session, please bring your own laptop.
Who is this session for? Users with some experience to experienced users
Hall 1. Practical application
3:00 PM – 3:35 PM
From regional challenge to manageable choices
Speakers: Sanne Botterweg and Per Prins (Urban Sync)
Every area development starts with ambitions. A healthy neighborhood, sufficient greenery, amenities around the corner, heat-resistant. They are quickly written down on paper. The difficult question comes later: how do you know, during the design phase and at the moment decisions need to be made, whether your plan actually delivers on those ambitions?
Urban Sync is a consultancy firm for the healthy living environment. We help municipalities, provinces, and area developers make health and quality of life measurable, visible, and manageable in spatial plans using Sync City, our own city digital twin, built on Tygron.
In this session, we show how this translation works. We do not start with the data, but with the challenge: what do you want to know, what indicators are associated with it, and what sources and calculation models do you need for that? We anchor these indicators in recognized frameworks, such as the RIVM Basic Set Healthy Living Environment, the 3-30-300 rule, and the 15-minute city. In this way, an outcome is not just a number, but also gains meaning. We bring the results together in maps, dashboards, and calculated scenarios, so you can compare variants and see which measure yields the most benefit.
We do this for both the physical and the social domain: heat stress, greenery, and noise, but just as much proximity, interaction, and social cohesion. It is precisely the stacking of these themes that shows where the urgency in a neighborhood is highest and where a single intervention scores on multiple ambitions at the same time.
Based on practical examples, including from Dronten-Zuid, Spoordok Leeuwarden, and our work for the provinces of Overijssel and Utrecht, we demonstrate how you go from a broad ambition to concrete management information. In doing so, we are also honest about the limits: data is not the starting point, but a tool to make better choices.
Do you have a challenge of your own that you are struggling with? Bring it along; we would love to discuss it with you.
Hall 1. Practical application
3:00 PM – 3:35 PM
From regional challenge to manageable choices
Speakers: Sanne Botterweg and Per Prins (Urban Sync)
Every area development starts with ambitions. A healthy neighborhood, sufficient greenery, amenities around the corner, heat-resistant. They are quickly written down on paper. The difficult question comes later: how do you know, during the design phase and at the moment decisions need to be made, whether your plan actually delivers on those ambitions?
Urban Sync is a consultancy firm for the healthy living environment. We help municipalities, provinces, and area developers make health and quality of life measurable, visible, and manageable in spatial plans using Sync City, our own city digital twin, built on Tygron.
In this session, we show how this translation works. We do not start with the data, but with the challenge: what do you want to know, what indicators are associated with it, and what sources and calculation models do you need for that? We anchor these indicators in recognized frameworks, such as the RIVM Basic Set Healthy Living Environment, the 3-30-300 rule, and the 15-minute city. In this way, an outcome is not just a number, but also gains meaning. We bring the results together in maps, dashboards, and calculated scenarios, so you can compare variants and see which measure yields the most benefit.
We do this for both the physical and the social domain: heat stress, greenery, and noise, but just as much proximity, interaction, and social cohesion. It is precisely the stacking of these themes that shows where the urgency in a neighborhood is highest and where a single intervention scores on multiple ambitions at the same time.
Based on practical examples, including from Dronten-Zuid, Spoordok Leeuwarden, and our work for the provinces of Overijssel and Utrecht, we demonstrate how you go from a broad ambition to concrete management information. In doing so, we are also honest about the limits: data is not the starting point, but a tool to make better choices.
Do you have a challenge of your own that you are struggling with? Bring it along; we would love to discuss it with you.
Hall 2. Municipal task
3:00 PM – 3:35 PM
The climate stress test as a reusable municipal working method
Speakers: Michel van der Ploeg (Municipality of Dronten) & Ward van Laatum (Tygron)
How do you ensure that a climate stress test does not remain a one-off analysis, but becomes part of a working method that the municipality itself can continue to use?
The Municipality of Dronten is developing a validated Tygron template for climate stress tests and spatial assessment. The modeling, principles, and validation are carefully set up once, after which the municipality can independently apply the Digital Twin to new scenarios, measures, and spatial plans.
In this session, the Municipality of Dronten and Tygron share their approach and first experiences. What do you need to organize well in advance, and how do you build a Digital Twin that is useful not just for one project, but also for future challenges?
Hall 2. Municipal task
3:00 PM – 3:35 PM
The climate stress test as a reusable municipal working method
Speakers: Michel van der Ploeg (Municipality of Dronten) & Ward van Laatum (Tygron)
How do you ensure that a climate stress test does not remain a one-off analysis, but becomes part of a working method that the municipality itself can continue to use?
The Municipality of Dronten is developing a validated Tygron template for climate stress tests and spatial assessment. The modeling, principles, and validation are carefully set up once, after which the municipality can independently apply the Digital Twin to new scenarios, measures, and spatial plans.
In this session, the Municipality of Dronten and Tygron share their approach and first experiences. What do you need to organize well in advance, and how do you build a Digital Twin that is useful not just for one project, but also for future challenges?
Hall 2. Municipal task
3:00 PM – 3:35 PM
The climate stress test as a reusable municipal working method
Speakers: Michiel van der Ploeg (Municipality of Dronten) & Ward van Laatum (Tygron)
How do you ensure that a climate stress test does not remain a one-off analysis, but becomes part of a working method that the municipality itself can continue to use?
The Municipality of Dronten is developing a validated Tygron template for climate stress tests and spatial assessment. The modeling, starting points, and validation are set up carefully once, after which the municipality can independently apply the Digital Twin to new scenarios, measures, and spatial plans.
In this session, the Municipality of Dronten and Tygron share the approach and initial experiences. What do you need to organize well in advance, and how do you build a Digital Twin that is useful not only for one project, but also for future challenges?
Hall 3. Tygron AI 2026
3:00 PM – 3:35 PM
Translating policy documents into a Digital Twin: can AI make the leap?
Speakers: Ilja Kocken (FwdFaster), Hedi van Dijk and Rudolf Koster (Tygron)
In housing construction and area development, a large number of policy documents, rules, ambitions, and standards must be taken into account. Translating these into concrete and measurable starting points for an area takes a lot of time. Can AI help accelerate this step?
Within the European GENeCITY project, we are working on an approach where AI translates relevant policy documents into measurable frameworks that can then be used in a Digital Twin. We will show a first demonstration: from policy text to starting points that you can work with in an area.
We share our first experiences and lessons: what is already working, what challenges are we facing, and what still requires further development before such an approach can be applied in practice?
Hall 3. Tygron AI 2026
3:00 PM – 3:35 PM
Translating policy documents into a Digital Twin: can AI make the leap?
Speakers: Ilja Kocken (FwdFaster), Hedi van Dijk and Rudolf Koster (Tygron)
In housing construction and area development, a large number of policy documents, rules, ambitions, and standards must be taken into account. Translating these into concrete and measurable starting points for an area takes a lot of time. Can AI help accelerate this step?
Within the European GENeCITY project, we are working on an approach where AI translates relevant policy documents into measurable frameworks that can then be used in a Digital Twin. We will show a first demonstration: from policy text to starting points that you can work with in an area.
We share our first experiences and lessons: what is already working, what challenges are we facing, and what still requires further development before such an approach can be applied in practice?
Hall 4. Practical Work Sessions
3:00 PM – 3:35 PM
Getting Started with Tygron AI 2026
Speaker: Frank Baars (Tygron)
What if you didn't just operate the Tygron Platform through the interface, but could also simply tell it what you want to achieve? Tygron AI 2026 helps you work with the platform: from setting up analyses to executing various steps in your project.
In this hands-on session, you will get to work with Tygron AI 2026 yourself. You will discover what the AI can do for you, how to give effective instructions, and how to work with the AI step-by-step to achieve the desired result.
Throughout this, one principle remains central: you stay in control. You will learn what you can hand over to the AI and when you need to guide, check, and adjust yourself. And from this CoP onwards, you no longer have to wait: Tygron AI 2026 will be accessible to everyone from that moment.
This is a workshop session, please bring your own laptop.
Who is this session for? Users with some experience to experienced users
Hall 4. Practical Work Sessions
3:00 PM – 3:35 PM
Getting Started with Tygron AI 2026
Speaker: Frank Baars (Tygron)
What if you didn't just operate the Tygron Platform through the interface, but could also simply tell it what you want to achieve? Tygron AI 2026 helps you work with the platform: from setting up analyses to executing various steps in your project.
In this hands-on session, you will get to work with Tygron AI 2026 yourself. You will discover what the AI can do for you, how to give effective instructions, and how to work with the AI step-by-step to achieve the desired result.
Throughout this, one principle remains central: you stay in control. You will learn what you can hand over to the AI and when you need to guide, check, and adjust yourself. And from this CoP onwards, you no longer have to wait: Tygron AI 2026 will be accessible to everyone from that moment.
This is a workshop session, please bring your own laptop.
Who is this session for? Users with some experience to experienced users
Plenary closing
3:40 PM – 4:15 PM
Outlook: where is Tygron heading?
We traditionally conclude the CoP with a look further ahead. Which developments are we working on, which new possibilities are we exploring and what can you expect from Tygron in the coming years?
Which technological developments do we see emerging and what do they mean for the way we use data, build models and tackle spatial issues?
We do not develop Tygron just for, but together with our users. Just as the platform has grown over the years based on questions and experiences from practice, we also want to shape the next steps together. The CoP is pre-eminently the place to look ahead to what we are currently working on, what choices lie ahead of us and where we want to go together.
Plenary closing
3:40 PM – 4:15 PM
Outlook: where is Tygron heading?
We traditionally conclude the CoP with a look further ahead. Which developments are we working on, which new possibilities are we exploring and what can you expect from Tygron in the coming years?
Which technological developments do we see emerging and what do they mean for the way we use data, build models and tackle spatial issues?
We do not develop Tygron just for, but together with our users. Just as the platform has grown over the years based on questions and experiences from practice, we also want to shape the next steps together. The CoP is pre-eminently the place to look ahead to what we are currently working on, what choices lie ahead of us and where we want to go together.