Marten Hogeweg

Marten is the Senior Principal Consultant at Esri and carries with him an extensive 25-year industry experience in supporting National Government and Maritime organisations in their respective digital transformation journey.

As the lead consultant for the Port of Rotterdam’s geospatial enterprise system, Marten led the implementation of a geospatial framework which supported collaboration, asset management, strategic planning, and smart infrastructure processes.

Together with the Port of Rotterdam and other key industry leaders, Marten has worked on developing a smart shipping container in and defining the Digital Twin program for the Port, that eventually will include 3D representation of all port assets, real-time systems to capture hydrological, meteorological data and status of key port assets such as bollards, fenders, and shipping containers.

In addition, Marten was also instrumental in developing the main prototype of Indonesia’s National Spatial Data Infrastructure which resulted in a data sharing platform between several government agencies. He was also instrumental in rolling out several of the U.S. Government’s Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB) various open government initiatives.

It is this valuable experience that saw him brought on board as a consultant for GeoSpace-Sea's development - a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.

Marten also carries extensive experience in geospatial industry standards from ISO, the Open Geospatial Consortium, United States Geospatial Platform, and European INSPIRE programs.

Marten has a Master of Science in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Salford, United Kingdom (2000) and a Master of Science in Mathematics, the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1989).