Gatherings, calls, and milestones from the house in Thimphu.
Dabtong House scholar and Chiba Tech Master's student Sherab Gocha received the Best Paper Presenter Award at ICETCI 2026 in Hyderabad, for research using computer vision to identify the growth stages of tomato plants in Bhutanese greenhouses.
Our third cohort of Dabtong House scholars begins Master's studies at Chiba Institute of Technology in April 2027 — Subham in Advanced Robotics, Tshokey at the School of Design and Science.
Two young chefs from Wakuden, a renowned culinary house in Kyoto, led a traditional Japanese sweets workshop for the Selwa team — the start of Dabtong House bringing Japanese mastery and culture to Bhutan.
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.
Dabtong House opened applications recommending up to three Bhutanese candidates for a fully-funded Masters at Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan, starting April 2027.
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.
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.
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.
