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.
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....
Go out and make those connections, meet people, have conversations. It may land you a dream job. My friend got an engineering internship in China by...
When kids are in diapers, their parents enroll them into primary school. If all goes right, the right primary school could mean the right high...
During my time at Robogals, towards the end of every year, I would lose focus. Why? All my major projects for the year would have been wound up. My...
From September to December 2019, Al Jazeera English followed me around and filmed an update on all my projects: Robogals, Aipoly, Teleport, my...
If you're over your university studies. If you're not looking forward to taking a week out of your life and attending a conference. If you don't...
I think that burnout happens when you set a goal, you work really, really hard to achieve the goal, and then the deadline comes and you haven’t...
You set up a meeting time, ten people email back and say they’re keen, passionate and that they’ll be there. One person shows up. So what’s there to...
Two Saturdays ago, I was in Adelaide taking a late-night stroll by the beautiful, still, River Torrens with 3 member of my Robogals Global team -...
When I first started Robogals, the first thing I did was tell people about my vision and ask that they sign on to join. From that, I got a team of 3...
