Returning to my hometown Cairns is always relaxing. Returning to Cairns in winter is a luxury - because the weather is lovely, and not cold at all. Centacare have a program where they are mentoring 20 people in launching their companies. They invited me to give a public lecture to share my experiences and advice in starting a company. To promote the lecture, the Cairns Post featured me on the cover of their Weekend newspaper magazine.
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.
Whenever I read a business book, I always think I've got the general gist of it and put it down sometime through. Otherwise, I read it...
Answer the phone. Reply to the email. Follow up with the guy you met last week. Go to the meeting. Don't go to the meeting. Don't become a board...
No matter what choices you make every single day, life is unpredictable - everything is unpredictable. So all you can do is prepare the best you can...
The Chinese History Museum invited me to be part of their exhibition on notable Chinese Australians. In February, over Chinese New Year, my mum came to...
I attended the Global Summit of Women in Tokyo, Japan 11-13 May and gave a presentation about aubot, then spoke on a panel. It was live-translated...
Spoke at MIT's conference in Singapore, EmTech. Other speakers in my session spoke about autonomous robotic cargo ships, advances in drones and...
There comes a point when it's time to move on and seek out new challenges. On 31 December 2012, after a year of transition process, I handed over my...
SBS came and filmed a short segment at the 2Mar Robotics office for their SBS Small Business Secrets program. It aired on 23 October. Watch the...
I used to think I was brilliant. That I was different. That I was special. But then I realised a lot of people feel that way about themselves. And...
"We would have bought your company." "You just got lucky because it was the right time for that kind of thing." "All the elements in the industry were...
