Conquering Challenges to Unlock Exponential Growth | Dr. Yeong Che Fai | TEDxUTM

Dr. Yeong Che Fai shares how embracing challenges has been the key to unlocking exponential growth in his life. Through his personal experiences, he reveals how shifting perspectives on adversity has led to unexpected progress. The talk offers a fresh take on how obstacles can redefine both personal and professional paths. Dr Yeong is a senior lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His interests are in embedded system, robotics, innovations and entrepreneurship. He has won more than 50 awards for his innovation and entrepreneurship work, such as World Invention Award at British Invention Show, Korean Inventor Award Festival, APICTA Award, ROBOCON, Allianz Bank SME Innovation Challenge, Ministry of Education Entrepreneurship Mentor Award, trips to Philips at Eindhoven and to Silicon Valley through MaGIC e@Stanford program. He participated in Austrian Leadership Program (Vienna) and also Newton Fund Leader in Innovation Fellowship Program (London) sponsored by respective government. He is a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded several companies such as DF Automation & Robotic, produces Industry 4.0 enabled robots and Techcare Innovation, focuses on rehabilitation robots and assistive technology. Dr. Yeong has frequently been invited to speak on innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx