Bas van Vossen is advisor digital system applications and innovations for delta and water technology at Deltares. He is program manager of DigiLab Toegepaste Kennis (Applied science and technology), an initiative of 10 leading applied science institutes in The Netherlands to enhance the use of each others' data, algorithms, models and computational facilities through development of a federative virtual research facility. He has over 20 years experience with international projects, has been department head for over 9 years, and is product business owner of the Linux computational cluster at Deltares. At this research day he will share the ambitions and ideas in realizing DigiLab Toegepaste Kennis.