Robyn Foyster

Editor & Publisher, Women Love Tech

Robyn Foyster is a multi-award-winning journalist, tech entrepreneur, and owner/founder of an independent media business specialising in entrepreneurship, lifestyle & women in tech. 

The former Editor in Chief of The Australian Women’s Weekly is also a podcaster, author, and has over three decades of global experience in media across TV and both traditional and digital publishing. 

A global speaker on women in STEM, diversity & inclusion, leadership, technology and business, Robyn has lived in Britain, the United States, and New Zealand. 

She is the owner of three websites: Women Love Tech, The Carousel and Game Changers. 

A former Non-Executive Director of an ASX listed tech company, Robyn led the team that built Vivid's first AR app in 2018 and founded AR Tech Ltd, which created Sweep, an AR and AI shopping app.

A passionate advocate for diversity, with a strong track record of supporting and mentoring young women, Robyn is a 2023 Women Leading Tech Champion of Change finalist & 2024 finalist for the prestigious Samsung Lizzie’s IT Journalism Awards. Also a 2024 finalist for Australian Women's Small Business Champion Awards.

A regular speaker on TV, radio and podcasts, Robyn emceed two panels for SXSW Sydney in 2023, and was a speaker at the 2024 Intel Sales Conference in Danang, Vietnam and Intel AI Summit in Melbourne. She has been a judge for the Telstra Business Awards for 8 years and is a mentor for the Taronga Hatch Accelerator Programme.

Voted one of B&T's 30 Most Powerful Women in Media, Robyn was Publisher and Editor of Australia's three biggest flagship magazines - The Australian Women’s Weekly, Woman's Day and New Idea and a Seven Network Executive. She was also Group Publisher for Woman's Day and Grazia and led the Hearst Group in Australia where she was responsible for Harper’s BAZAAR, Cosmopolitan and Madison. 

Robyn was also named Editor of the Year at the prestigious Magazine Publisher's Award, where she also won Best News Magazine and the overall Magazine of the Year Award. 

Her career began as a copy girl at The Australian followed by a cadetship at AAP Reuters. At, age 23, she moved to London and worked for Today newspaper. In this highly competitive world, she had a regular column and was responsible for numerous front-page stories on racism, environment and fraudulent trade practices in Britain. She also worked in LA as the US correspondent for Ch 4’s Big Breakfast before returning to London where she worked as a producer for GMTV, Britain’s biggest breakfast TV show, where she put the Spice Girls on TV for the first time.