Gatherings, calls, and milestones from the house in Thimphu.
Dabtong House, with Pelsung, hosted AI Studio in Thimphu on 11 July 2026: a closed, by-application gathering with a keynote by Joi Ito, AI demos, and a hackathon, and the first meeting of a builder community forming in Bhutan.
Read the story →Dabtong House opened applications recommending up to three Bhutanese candidates for a fully-funded Masters at Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan, starting April 2027.
Read the story →Dabtong House supported a recent blockchain bootcamp and hackathon by sponsoring Claude accounts for Bhutanese participants, a small piece of a longer effort to make agentic tools accessible to builders in Bhutan.
Read the story →Dabtong House hosted a joint dinner in Thimphu, co-hosted with Highreso and the Gelephu Investment and Development Corporation, with guests from Druk Holding & Investments, GovTech Bhutan, and JICA's Bhutan office.
Read the story →Dabtong House was introduced at the Symposium on Design and Science in Tokyo, in a panel exploring the deepening Bhutan–Japan partnership the new Thimphu space is meant to anchor.
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