About Me

Marita ChengForbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.

I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.

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  • The stars won't align

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  • BigSpeak Top 10 Female Speaker

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  • Hot Desq

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  • Seek, not given

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  • TEDx Aipoly

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  • NBN STEMpreneur

    The NBN Stempreneur Initiative is a virtual learning program for kids in eight regional schools. It shows young people the breadth of opportunities...

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  • 10 million

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    I think it's important to have one person that says the final 'yes' to all the decisions in a start-up. That one person should be the visionary...