Speakers

Forbes World’s Top 50 Women in Tech, roboticist, and entrepreneur Marita Cheng, inspires people through the possibilities of technology.

While studying engineering at university, Marita founded Robogals, a global organisation that inspires girls into engineering careers and tertiary studies through teaching robotics. For her work with Robogals, she was named the Young Australian of the Year and received an Asia Society Game Changer Award at the United Nations.

Through attending Singularity University’s ten-week Graduate Studies Program, Marita founded Aipoly, using AI to recognise objects in real time to help the visually impaired navigate the world, winning a CES Best of Innovation Award two years in a row. She then founded Aubot, where she serves as CEO, making telepresence robots and robotics arms that care and enable.

Named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 and the youngest Member of the Order of Australia, Marita shows there are no limits. She gives keynote speeches on AI, STEM education and entrepreneurship.