Symposium - Meet the 2019 Asia Game Changer West Award Honorees
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Join Asia Society for the Asia Game Changer West Awards Symposium, a panel discussion with Asia Game Changer West Award honorees who are changing the world for the better in the health, business and tech industries. Meet the remarkable honorees and hear incredible journeys of breaking barriers, defining courage, and making miracles. Honorees attending the symposium include the Marita Cheng, Dr. Samuel So, and the Afghan Girls Robotics Team. Audience questions will follow a moderated discussion.
Asia Society Northern California debuts Asia Game Changer West Awards, bestowed to individuals, organizations, and movements that have inspired, enlightened, and shown true leadership in areas that reflect Asia Society’s core pillars of policy and business, arts and culture, and education.
Following the Symposium, awardees will be honored at Asia Society Northern California's Asia Game Changer West Awards Gala fundraiser. Additional Gala registration required. For more information, please contact Chris Hirano, Director of Development at [email protected].
Meet the Honorees:
Marita Cheng
recently named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 50 Women in Technology
Marita Cheng is the Founder and CEO of aubot (formerly called 2Mar Robotics), which makes a telepresence robot, Teleport, for kids with cancer in hospital to attend school, people with a disability to attend work and to monitor and socialize with elderly people. Teleports have been sold to offices, museums, co-working spaces, for kids with cancer in hospitals and for security. As well as telepresence robots, aubot does research and development in robotic arms, virtual reality and autonomous mapping and navigation. aubot has been recognized on a global scale through the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2016, and through being called "the coolest girl at CES 2014" by VentureBeat magazine. Ms. Cheng has presented about Teleport at the M.A.P. International CEO Conference in the Philippines in 2016, MIT Technology Review EmTech Singapore in 2015, and the 2014 World Entrepreneurship Forum in Lyon France.
Dr. Samuel So:
from the Stanford Liver Center for his work on helping to eradicate Hepatitis B globally.
Dr. So (center) with his sons Richard (left) and George (right) (Emma Cockerell/Asia Society)
Dr. Samuel "Sam" So is the Lui Hac Minh Professor and Professor of Surgery. He is also the founder of the multidisciplinary liver cancer program at the Stanford Cancer Center, and the Founder and Executive Director of the Asian Liver Center at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. So is a native of Hong Kong and received his surgical training at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Minnesota where he also completed his fellowship in multi-organ transplantation. Dr. So is recognized worldwide for his expertise in chronic Hepatitis B and primary liver cancer prevention, research, treatment and health policy.
The Afghan Girls Robotics Team
Champions for Girls all over the World
The members of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team are more accomplished than your average teenagers: Their ball-sorting robot, built to distinguish between contaminated and clean water, won them a silver medal for “courageous achievement” at an international robotics competition in Washington, D.C. But what truly sets them apart is how they got there in the first place — and where they came from. n the months since their plight attracted worldwide attention, the girls have carried on doing what they do best: displaying their remarkable ingenuity at robotics competitions around the globe. Last November, the Afghan team won an “Entrepreneur Challenge” at a festival in Estonia for developing a solar-powered robot that could help farmers with seeding and other tasks — offering a potential boon for their heavily agricultural country.
Agenda
3:00 - 3:20 PM Registration
3:20 - 4:30 PM Panel Discussion Moderated by Tom Nagorski, Executive Vice President of Asia Society
Event Details
Four Seasons Hotel
5th Floor - Veranda Ballroom
757 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103