Bart van Leeuwen
Bart van Leeuwen combines a unique set of experience in the fire service, IT industry and academia, which allows him to provide fresh perspectives on issues involving data usage and human factors. As an “outside the box” thinker, he helps fire departments to approach their information problems differently. In this process, technology is not the answer, it’s an enabler and should be treated as such.
At Netage B.V. he leads a team of data specialists constantly looking for smarter ways of dealing with available data for the fire service. He has served on various data standard bodies, helping shape important standards and recommendations both in the fire industry and beyond.
He is a group associate at the User-Centric Data Science group at VU University in Amsterdam, where is a regular lecturer on the subject of data in the fire service. Furthermore, he guides both bachelor and master students during their thesis projects.
He is a Situational Awareness Matters! Certified Master Instructor and delivers programs to emergency responders and other people who work in high-risk high high-consequence environments.
He delivered various keynote addresses at both technology and fire-related conferences around the world, and he is a frequent speaker on Smart data for Smarter Firefighting.