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.
Why are people so critical when young people start non-profits? Time and time again, I hear people say, "there are enough non-profits out there....
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...
From August 2009 to August 2011, I was the "Founder and Director of Robogals Global". Before that, my title was "Founder", and we hadn't created...
Growing up, I read stories about technology being created in San Francisco. So I was truly honoured when I was named an inaugural Asia Society...
Why, excuses, rationale, justifications, explanations, verbal diarrhoea, reasons, etc. In the end, the myriad and infinite possibility of reasons...
Spending long, snug evenings with your significant other. Making time to look after your family. Jesting, gabbing and chilling with friends. Building...
Wow! What a huge honour! I flew overseas in the wee hours of 27 January, and so the whole experience of being named Young Australian of the Year is...
I first learnt about the impostor syndrome at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing in 2011. A Stanford student asked a question...
On 28 August 2016, I was invited to Taiwan by Foxconn to speak at the H.Spectrum by Yonglin Healthcare Startup Conference. I gave a 15-minute...
What are your priorities? Work? Family? Relationship? Start-up? 9-5? Non-profit? Volunteering? Watching television? Reading blogs? Eating? Meetings? Don't...
