Tonco Tijdeman

Tonco graduated from Hotelschool The Hague and during his more than 30-year long career has worked in various fields: from education to information technology and from consultancy to government. As an independent consultant, he has been involved in ERP design and implementation projects for customers such as the Dutch Department of Defense and Royal Dutch Airlines. He also served as Information Management Consultant at the Dutch Police Force where he contributed to the development and roll-out of the Investigation Information System. His mission is to help professionals to understand the vital value of bringing together the business needs, information and IT tools as essential means for achieving organizations’ strategic goals. His main focus is on ways to safely process, enrich and use data and information, making it one of the most valuable assets for organizations.

For the past 16 years, Tonco served as lecturer of Business, Information & IT Alignment at Hotelschool The Hague and International University Bad Honnef, uniting his three passions – education, hospitality and information management.

Currently, he holds the position of Senior Educational Advisor at Hotelschool The Hague, focusing on how EdTech can help steepen the learning curve for students and letting faculty get the best out of the tools at hand. In this capacity, Tonco has been responsible for the Learning Management System ‘MyHotelschool’, powered by Sakai since the first adoption in 2008 and for the Digital Assessment environment.