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Marita Cheng

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Marita Cheng is an inventor & entrepreneur who has founded global companies in robotics and AI, such as Robogals, Aipoly, and Aubot.

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5 out of 5 stars

An exceptional speaker, drawing on her background and personal experience to tell a very interesting story. I would recommend her to any organization who want to promote concepts such as individual leadership and innovation.

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Why you should book Marita Cheng for your next event

  • Inspirational and Motivating Speaker: Marita has delivered over 370 speeches and is known for her engaging and motivational presentation style, making her a perfect choice for events focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology.
  • Expertise in Robotics and AI: As a leading figure in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, Marita’s insights can be incredibly valuable for conferences and events focused on these topics.
  • Role Model for Women in Tech: As a female entrepreneur in a male-dominated industry, Marita has been a trailblazer for women in technology, making her an ideal choice for events focused on promoting diversity and inclusion in tech.
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Marita Cheng is an Australian entrepreneur and inventor specializing in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. She is the founder of several global companies, including Robogals, Aipoly, and Aubot, and has delivered over 370 speeches. Marita has been named to Forbes World's Top 50 Women in Tech and Forbes 30 Under 30, and is the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contributions to the field.

Why you should book Marita Cheng for your next event

  • Inspirational and Motivating Speaker: Marita has delivered over 370 speeches and is known for her engaging and motivational presentation style, making her a perfect choice for events focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology.
  • Expertise in Robotics and AI: As a leading figure in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, Marita’s insights can be incredibly valuable for conferences and events focused on these topics.
  • Role Model for Women in Tech: As a female entrepreneur in a male-dominated industry, Marita has been a trailblazer for women in technology, making her an ideal choice for events focused on promoting diversity and inclusion in tech.

Since being named the 2012 Young Australian of the Year, Marita has delivered 370 speeches, and been named Forbes World’s Top 50 Women in Tech and Forbes 30 Under 30.

Marita founded global companies Robogals, Aipoly and Aubot. Robogals inspires girls to study engineering, by teaching girls to build and program robots. Aipoly uses AI to recognise objects in real time to help the visually impaired navigate the world. Aubot makes telepresence robots and robot arms to care and enable.

Marita is the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her work in robotics and AI.

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"Robot Queen to Change the World"

These are actual headlines from national Australian newspapers. Learn how Marita Cheng went from small town girl living in government housing to conquering the globe as one of Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech in the World, and the second youngest person to become a Member of the Order of Australia. Noticing the limited number of girls in her engineering class, at the age of 19, Marita founded Robogals to inspire girls into robotics, growing the organization into an international movement. She followed that up with artificial intelligence company Aipoly to help the blind identify objects in real time, which resonated with millions of people. And robotics company Aubot, making robots to help people in their everyday lives. Hold on tight as pocket rocket Marita shares how she changed the world.

Key Takeaways:

  • The only failure is failure to try
  • Do your best at what’s in front of you, and more opportunities will present themselves
  • Choose yourself
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Leading teams through your computer

As the founding CEO of Robogals, Marita led thousands of volunteers throughout the USA, Australia, UK, Japan and New Zealand, to teach 140,000 girls robotics globally. To achieve this huge feat, Marita needed to manage and inspire teams across the globe to take actions – all through her computer. How do you motivate people when they’re far away? How do you create community when your team is isolated from one another?

Key Takeaways:

  • Creating community around a common vision
  • Giving effective feedback and praise to optimise employee engagement
  • Frontloading asynchronous communication to set your team up to win
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My bot, your bot, Aubot

What do you think of when you think of a robot? R2D2 or C3PO from Star Wars? Sonny from Isaac Asimov and Will Smith’s I, Robot? Or a robot in a factory stamping out panels for your Toyota? In the future, we were promised robots, so where are they all now? Join Forbes 30 Under 30 robotics founder Marita Cheng on a deep dive of robotics. From robots that coexist alongside us in our everyday environments, to the robots we don’t see behind the scenes, making it easier than ever for us to raise our standard of living, and the robots Aubot has made to help people in their daily lives. What’s happening now, where is it taking us going forward, and when will we finally get our own personal butlers, like Rosie from the Jetsons?

Key Takeaways:

  • All the robots helping us today
  • The big robotics projects: Where the investment and talent are heading
  • Robot trends of the future
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What’s real with Artificial Intelligence?

What’s actually happening in the world of artificial intelligence? What are people working on? What results are they seeing? Is it increasing productivity? Across the main industries, let’s look at a snapshot of artificial intelligence to see what’s happening. Marita Cheng, cofounder of artificial intelligence company Aipoly, which won Best of Innovation Awards at CES 2017 and 2018, will take you on this journey through the most exciting artificial intelligence companies and projects happening today.

Key Takeaways:

  • Overview of what’s hot in artificial intelligence
  • Ideas for artificial intelligence projects you could work on in your business
  • Examples of companies using AI around the world to transform industries
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Robogals: How artificial intelligence won’t take your job, but teen girls might

When Marita first entered her engineering classes, she thought, “where are all the girls?” And so in her second year at university, she decided to do something about it. She founded Robogals to get girls interested in engineering and technology careers and tertiary studies by going to schools with robots and teaching girls how to build and program them. Now, the organization has taught over 100,000 girls in 11 countries. Awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to study “strategies to get girls interested in engineering”, Marita shares insights from the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany, Jamaica, Japan and Australia on getting girls excited about engineering and giving them the tools to take on any challenge. For her work with Robogals, Marita received the Anita Borg Change Agent Award, Global Engineering Deans Council Diversity Award, and was named the Young Australian of the Year.

Key Takeaways:

  • The exciting world of science, technology, engineering, mathematics
  • From little things, big things grow
  • Scale your impact with technology
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Entrepreneurship: Engineering something from nothing

From teaching thousands of girls how to build robots, to helping the blind navigate their daily lives, to building robots to assist people with disabilities, time and time again, Marita Cheng has managed to create projects with a global impact. Learn the methodology which Marita uses to create projects from just an idea to global enterprises impacting millions of people. From using known concepts such as “3 Month Goals” and “Accountability Buddies” to new ideas such as “The Wall of Change”, and the “Uncomfortable Zone” figure out how you too can choose a project and go from zero to “woah, what did I just create?” in a few short months.

Key Takeaways:

  • A framework to get any project (at any stage) off the ground
  • “Accountability Buddies” and “The Wall of Change” to ensure you achieve your goals
  • Inspiring examples of the concepts being used to create global movements
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We Need to Teach Our Kids to be Makers: Marita Cheng at TEDxSydney

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Marita's presentation was fantastic. She is an inspirational, intelligent, highly informed yet humble young woman.

VISION International

Marita inspired the KPMG Partners Conference on robotic solutions for the disabled, she was an amazing speaker.

KPMG Partner

If you are looking for a motivational speaker... look no further.

National Association of Women in Construction
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5 out of 5 stars

An exceptional speaker, drawing on her background and personal experience to tell a very interesting story. I would recommend her to any organization who want to promote concepts such as individual leadership and innovation.

Standards Australia See all references

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