Spoke in Hong Kong at the the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) on 9 July. The WAGGGS is the largest voluntary organisation dedicated to girls and young women. They consist of ten million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from 145 countries across the world, and their international conference happens every three years. My speech was live-translated into 7 languages simultaneously!
Forbes 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.
I finally graduated! Stoked to give the valedictory speech at my graduation. I received a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) and a Bachelor of...
One day, as if overnight, all the airport check-in people and desks disappeared. In their place appeared computerised self-tagging stations. Across the...
I love the process of getting an idea, making a plan around it, and then bringing it to the world. It usually involves a lot of emailing, fleshing...
The Project called me a “Woman to Watch” and shot this short video. It contains footage of a child going to school remotely using Teleport,...
"If you have too much on your plate, get a bigger plate." I first heard this when I was doing a leadership course in London in 2009. Everyone in the...
I meet people all the time. In the past it was at entrepreneurship networking events when I was starting up Nudge. Then, it was at engineering...
Went to Utah and spoke at the Girl Scout National Convention in front of 6000 young women from all over America. Pretty insane! The panel was...
I've noticed in contests I've been on the judging panel for that those who have an expertise in a field, are more critical of entries that cross...
Spoke at MIT's conference in Singapore, EmTech. Other speakers in my session spoke about autonomous robotic cargo ships, advances in drones and...
I was at West End watching “Dirty Dancing” the other night. In the foyer, there were t-shirts embossed with, “I carried a watermelon”, and “No one...
