Indranil Bhattacharya
Digital Society workstream, Townmaking
Indranil leads the Digital Society workstream in Townmaking. He has fulfi lled a variety of Product Engineering roles for almost thirty years, from staff engineer to leadership positions in Fortune100 companies in telecommunications, transportation, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and energy. In parallel to helping the leading corporations in Europe develop products, he has also worked on developing societal assets for more than twenty years. Between 2006 to 2016, these societal initiatives ranged from a peer-to-peer logistics network for helping independent farmers develop their own supply chains direct to homes and restaurants, to a retail network of independent shops. Since 2016, these eff orts were consolidated into the Townmaking Institute to help develop societal initiatives that are sovereign, speculation-free, and environmentally-grounded. Indranil specializes in semantic intelligent systems using a knowledge engineering methodology (Embodied Making), which is currently applied for the development of food, transportation, and energy systems.