Founded in November 2014, the Yangon Business Network is an informal group that aims “to connect high-level Myanmar business owners and entrepreneurs from a vast range of industries and fields.” The group meets at the Strand Hotel in Yangon around once a month and facilitates opportunities for owners and managers of local and foreign enterprises to become acquainted and learn from one another. Discussions are oriented toward sharing information about business challenges and considering ways in which local companies and foreign investors may collaborate in the future. In the six months since it was established, around 200 people, many of them women, enlisted as participants in the network.