Marita Cheng AM

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.

Marita is often invited to speak at conferences, corporate functions, organizations and schools. She can talk about her work in robotics and AI and how those industries will impact the future of work, or inspire crowds about building Robogals into a global movement!

Many of the World’s largest brands have had Marita present for their audiences, including Samsung, Google, GE, Qantas,Cisco, Dell including ANZ, AMP, Westpac and Telstra.

Without doubt one of the most impressive people I have met, building tech that really does change lives.

CIO, ServiceNow

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 

Very pleased Lenovo used Ashton Kutcher as a Trojan Horse for presenting Marita Cheng to an unsuspecting audience. Ashton gave a really enthusiastic talk, but Marita easily stole the show.

Audience feedback, Lenovo event with Ashton Kutcher 

A leader, an inspiration, a game changer.

Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister

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

VISION International 

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?  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

“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

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 multi-million dollar 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