40 Fellows will meet regularly online before convening in person at Schloss Leopoldskron in May 2024
Salzburg Global Seminar and the Nippon Foundation are excited to welcome 40 new Fellows to the Japan-India Transformative Technology Network. 
The new Fellows, who completed a competitive application process, will meet regularly online between November 2023 and May 2024, and convene in person in May 2024 at Salzburg Global's home, Schloss Leopoldskron, in Salzburg.
The Network, which began in 2020, connects and empowers outstanding changemakers from India and Japan to create positive change through people-centered technology in the three challenge areas of health and healthcare, mobility and inclusion, and liveable communities.
From 2020 to 2022, 30 Fellows successfully participated in the first convening of the Network. Following the success of the first convening, 60 more Fellows came together for the second convening of the Network in 2023. Fellows from all three iterations of the program will have the opportunity to meet and work together to expand and accelerate their projects, allowing for cumulative impact from the work of all the groups.
Together the Fellows will build their collective leadership capacity by learning from each other and expanding ideas and ways of working to support the use of technology for positive social change. As the Japan-India Transformative Technology Network progresses, Fellows will collaborate through project work and other activities to create new narratives and influence policy and institutional change in the three challenge areas identified above.
The Japan-India Transformative Technology Network participants represent a variety of sectors and backgrounds, with interdisciplinary approaches fundamental to the program's design. The group is evenly split between representatives from India and Japan, and just over half of the participants are female.
The new Fellows joining the Network are:
- Rahul Arora, Creative Designer, Alstom Transport India Ltd, India
- Neha Arya, PhD Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology, India
- Sanchari Chandra, Associate Research Strategist, Maven Magnet, India
- Hayoung Choi, CEO, medical geek Inc, Japan
- Satoko Fujioka, Designer, ReDo/ Orange Medical and Social Group, Japan
- Romita Ghosh, CEO, iHeal HealthTech Pvt Ltd, India
- Subhojit Goswami, Senior Program Manager, The Leprosy Mission Trust, India
- Harshita Jamba, Program Manager, WRI, India
- Sanika Jawalkar, Senior Operations Research Scientist Shell PLC, India
- Atoka Jo, Founder, Himeji Jogakuin Liberal Arts Summer Program, Japan
- Himanshu Joshi, Director, NITI Aayog (AIM), India
- Shinya Kawada, Senior Manager, Mitsubishi Estate Co, Ltd, Japan
- Naho Kawashima, Social Innovation Coordinator, Entrepreneurial Training for Innovative Communities, Japan
- Imran Khan, Chief Engineer, Pacific Consultants Co. Ltd, Japan
- Kana Kitaoka, Partner/Independent Researcher, Dukana Solutions, LLP, India
- Ramprasad Kulkarni, Senior Technical Program Manager, Netradyne
- Shiv Kumar, Co-founder & Director, Kidaura Innovations Pvt. Ltd, India
- Roli Mahajan, Independent Journalist and Consultant, Development and Cooperation Magazine, India
- Meheresh Masanpally, PhD Candidate, IIT Kharagpur, India
- Daisuke Masubuchi, CTO Nobishiro, Nobishiro, Japan
- Nikhila Menon, Permaculture Design Consultant, Permaculture Centre, Japan
- Manabu Miyazaki, CEO, Aristol INC, Japan
- Shizuka Nagahama, Leaving Media, Marketing and Business Development, Tonari, Japan
- Suzuki Noriko, Auto Energy and Electronics Leader, IBM Institute for Business Value, Japan.
- Asahi Obata, Doctoral Student, Rice University, Japan
- Yojiro Onaru, Senior Manager, Public-Private Smart City Project, Japan
- Himanshu Panday, Co-founder, Dignity in Difference, India
- Durgesh Pathak, Member of Legislative Assembly, NCT of Delhi, India
- Nandini Paul, Associate Consultant, IQVIA, India
- Meghana Prakash, Co-founder, CTO and Product Strategist, Edgame, India
- Amrutha Rathina Sampath, Scientist and Research Scholar, Technology Information Assessment and Forecasting Council, India
- Karthik Rampalli, Venture Capitalist, Beyond Next Ventures, Japan
- Shameer Rishad, Founder, Javed Abidi Foundation, India
- Harisanker Santhosh Kumar Bindu, Executive Audiologist, HealthNet Global, apollo Telehealth, India
- Amit Kumar Singh, Advocate and PhD Scholar, Bar Council of India/Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, Japan
- Siddharth Sinha, India Public Policy Lead- Geo, Climate and Sustainability, Google, India
- Shoko Takemoto, Urban Analytics Assistant Manager, Woven By Toyota, Japan
- Mami Takesada, Manager, Code for Japan, Japan
- Keisuke Tanaka, Managing Director, Global Japan AAP Consulting Private Limited, India
- Naoki Uozawa, Innovation Officer, Adaptation Fund, Japan
Learn more about the Japan-India Transformative Technology Network and the projects that have resulted from it.
