Debby Dröge

Debby’s focus is on communication strategy, corporate communications, reputation, brand awareness and content marketing strategy. In this role she heads the communication department, where she works in close cooperation with Maud, Hélène, and Myrthe.

She feels at home in the dynamics of complex and changing environments while working on topics that have a societal impact. As a resident of the city of Amsterdam for the past 20 years, the topics of urban development in Amsterdam are close to her heart.

Next to her scope of activities Debby is Press & Communications Lead for the Roboat project.

“It is great to be working on the awareness and positioning of this young scientific institute where innovations evolve and come forth rapidly. It is truly a unique environment that focuses on topics that contribute to making the city sustainable, innovative and just.”

Debby Dröge

Head of Communications

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Event

Forum on Future Cities

Smart Urban Mobility

April 12

The 2019 Forum on Future Cities, organized by MIT Senseable City Lab and the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization, will focus on the topic of Urban Intelligence. Roboat will be one of the key topics addressed.

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Event

Roboat VR Workshop by MIT

Smart Urban Mobility

21 & 22 May

VR provides new ways to create insights for research projects. In this workshop researchers from MIT will teach, among others, MSc MADE students how they can use VR as a tool to test the use cases of their research, with Roboat as topic at hand.

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News

In the royal spotlight

Circularity in Urban Regions

At the invitation of His Majesty the King, Her Excellency Madam Halimah Yacob President of the Republic of Singapore, visited the Netherlands for a state visit on 21-22 November 2018. AMS Institute and Waternet were invited to share their innovations.

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News

In the royal spotlight

Circularity in Urban Regions

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Event

Amsterdam City Event

June 6, 2019

The Amsterdam City Event is a knowledge day for civil servants. On this day, civil servants of the municipality of Amsterdam will exchange knowledge, inspire each other and have the opportunity to expand their network.

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News

Roboat ahoy!

Smart Urban Mobility

To wrap up Roboat’s second year of research – the research program on autonomous vessels that helps solving urban challenges of the city of Amsterdam – the first autonomous Roboat prototypes were demonstrated at Marineterrein Amsterdam on October 5th.