For this episode will be talking to Cho Chan Myei Oo. She is currently a Product Owner at a tech startup based in Thailand. She has worked in the fintech and telco industry in Myanmar with extensive work experience in risk and strategy planning.

She has led the launch of digital payment products in KBZPay e-wallet and digital banking. As a former Country Lead of The Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Women's Leadership Academy Alumni Network, she has participated in and hosted workshops and events on disadvantaged communities, youth empowerment, and entrepreneurship.

Her new interest is emerging technologies such as web3/defi and how it can contribute to great causes. She writes content about product design and her learning journey in Medium and her personal blog https://chochan.squarespace.com/.

For this episode will be talking to Min Zaw who is currently working as a graduate researcher based at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

As a minority from the Rakhine state, he's advocated and worked with different grassroots organizations during the Rakhine conflicts. He is concerned about Burma, he continues to work with student organizations to contribute to local advocacy efforts, sanctions, and data-related efforts after the 2021 coup.

For this episode will be talking to Thinzar Shunlei Yi who is one of the leading youth advocates and activists based in Yangon.

She is known for her tireless activism for peace and justice campaigning against the ongoing civil war in Myanmar. She is the daughter of an army officer and spent the first 16 years of her life on military grounds. When she discovered the world outside, she felt a responsibility to use her status to fight for others.

From 2012 to 2016, she co-organized and led nationwide and regional youth forums in Myanmar, as well as the National Youth Development Policy process. She is the first woman coordinator of the National Youth Congress (NYC) and a two-term president of Yangon Youth Network, Shunlei Yi is also currently an advocacy lead at Asian Youth Peace Network (AYPN).

For this episode will be talking to Than Toe Aung. He is a poet, writer, and activist-scholar.

He started a spoken word movement called “Slam Express,” which intersects activism and art, in his hometown Yangon. He is currently completing his Masters in Critical Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. 

When he is not writing or slamming poems, he writes about his ongoing identity crisis of growing up and living as a minoritized Muslim in Buddhist Burma. His interests lie in identity, belonging, borders, migration, race, ethnicity, decolonization, (trans)gender, non-binary, and queer politics.

For this episode will be talking to Maw Htun Aung Laphai, Deputy Minister for the National Unity Government in Mynamar.

A fellow in Obama foundation’s Leaders Asia pacific program, Maw was the Country Manager for Natural Resource Governance Institute in Myanmar. He is a devoted policy advocate on Transparency and Accountability in Natural Resource Governance.

He oversaw the research and advocacy on SOEs reform Fiscal Analysis on mining, Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, Natural Resource Federalism, and open data utilization in the extractive industry.

He is a Founder of Another Development, a local think tank for sub-national governments and currently helping as a strategic advisor.

He also serves as board chair for Arravati social development organization and a board member for Paung Ku, a local civil society strengthening initiative and its affiliate Lann center.

He currently now serves as the Deputy Minister for the National Unity Government.

This episode was recorded earlier in the year in March. Due to technical issues, there was a delay but luckily it is out now.

For this episode will be talking to Crystal Thane, an Art Director.

Born and raised in Yangon, Crystal is an art director currently based in NYC. She moved to the U.S. seven years ago to pursue a film degree with plans to eventually return home but somewhere along the way, she stumbled into the world of advertising and now works for a global ad agency. She’s passionate about storytelling, crafting experiences, and flamin’ hot Cheetos.

For this episode will be talking to Hnin Thet Hmu Khin, a Humanitarian and Social Worker.

Hnin is a Master of Social Work graduate at Washington University in St. Louis. During the Rohingya crisis, she worked as a humanitarian worker in conflict-affected areas of Myanmar. She finds herself at the intersection of humanitarian and social work issues. She is committed to fighting for human rights and social justice in Myanmar and elsewhere.

For this episode will be talking to Htet Myet Oo, the Founder and Managing Director of Rangoon Tea House.

Born in Myanmar but raised in the UK, Htet is a Yangon-based restaurateur, currently the managing director of Rangoon Tea House Group, one of the leading casual dining restaurant groups in Myanmar, founded in 2014. Home to 250+ diverse employees and restaurants, Rangoon Tea House is a traditional tea-shop inspired restaurant with ambitions of taking Burmese cuisine global.

This episode will be talking to Aung Pyae Phyo, an entrepreneur from Yangon, Myanmar.

Aung is currently a Founder and CEO of MM-Digital-Solutions & PADC-Academy.  Aung orchestrates Mobile Solutions & sets out to make a difference in the local digital product/solution industry. In this episode, we touch upon how he found his businesses, his vision of the start-up scene,  tips to young entrepreneurs in Myanmar, and so much more.

For this episode will be talking to Aung Zan Baw, a self-taught full-stack web developer, based in Yangon, Myanmar.

Aung has worked in various startups as a developer and he’s also a co-founder at Fairway Technology which teaches children how to code. He’s had experience on the digital agency side and now works in the transportation sector as a tech lead. Aung has had vocational training in downtown Yangon and focuses on basic programming to advance web development. On this episode, we talk about how Aung learned about coding, how hard it is for Myanmar developers to keep up with the modern world, and so much more.

Thihan Cho Oo is a self-taught designer from Yangon, Myanmar. He currently works at Grab as a Product Designer and is very passionate about the concept "less is more". Thihan started his design career in the advertising industry but found his way into the tech industry teaching himself UX. Before he moved here to Singapore, he was doing tech review videos on Facebook as a side project in Myanmar.

In this episode, we talk about how Thihan grew up in Yangon, Myanmar, and the struggles he faced. He will talk about his life journey... from Mynamar to Jamaica to Singapore. We find out how he taught himself how to speak English, how he learned about design in general, and how he got himself into product design. We also touch upon the technological advances and struggles he and his people faced in Myanmar and how he ended up doing tech reviews on gadgets.