Founder Stories #4 : Tan Eng Tong—Inside the Mind of an IT Champion | Peatix tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-11-15T09:38:09+08:00 Peatix BEAMSTART Founder Stories #4 : Tan Eng Tong—Inside the Mind of an IT Champion tag:peatix.com,2018:event-397615 2018-06-28T18:30:00MYT 2018-06-28T18:30:00MYT 🎉 The word hobby, doesn’t quite encapsulate the passion Tan Eng Tong brings to the world of robotics 🤖. Having represented Malaysia to the ABU Asia Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon), he saw the potential and value in robotics, especially if it were to be implemented in school education. Geared with a stronger need to educate the younger generation to be more tech savvy, he then developed ReRo, an educational robotics kit alongside his engineering mates—and soon, co-founded Cytron Technologies, which is now Malaysia’s largest Digital Maker Marketplace 🔥Eager to know more about his startup journey? Join us on the 28th of June and hear what goes through the mind of an IT Champion 🏆🗓 Agenda6.30pm - Registration and Mingle Around7.00pm - aCAT Penang's brief introduction7.15pm - Founder Stories 7.45pm - Moderation & Ask Me Anything (AMA) time8.30pm - End of Session🤵 Speaker ProfileTan Eng Tong is the co-founder and CEO of Cytron Technologies. He started his robotic journey in 2003 with a team of aspiring undergraduates who represented their university in a robotic competition, which in turn sparked their passion and entrepreneurial spirits. Established in late 2004, Cytron developed various kinds of training kits, development boards, electronics modules to facilitate makers, researchers and engineers in their robotic related projects.🌟 Founder StoriesFounder Stories is a series of program that --- to narrate about how founders break the norms of life, who chase after their dreams, who fight for what they aspire to bring to the world and exposed themselves to great heights of challenges and excitements. It will be an intense session where the audience will get to unravel, learn, and be inspired by those who has been there, done that, and might or might not love it.