Failure is the f-word of international development. Unspoken in polite company, but a reality in our work. We are often working in failed states, in market failure environments, on some of the most intractable human issues – who are we to expect success 100% of the time?

So we must celebrate failure, and we did at Fail Festival SLUSH Impact – the crash and burn party for positive social and environmental impact initiatives.

This was the 1st Fail Festival in Finland, and part of a 5-year movement to talk honestly about failure in international development. Fail Festival SLUSH Impact was a celebration, complete with 60 roaring fans cheering on a bevy of development leaders and startup innovators giving fast, Fail-Slam lightning talks on how it all went wrong.

Fail Festival Finland was co-organized with Slush Impact and Plan International Finland and was hosted by PwC Finland on Monday, November 9th, 2015.

Featured Presenters

• Andy Xue, Surong360
• Antti Toivanen, Save the Children Finland
• Anu Juvonen, ex-Demo Finland, currently Ellun Kanat
• Aram Mugo, Sifasafi Solutions
• Jari Jaanto,Heimo Community, IRC-Galleria
• Mika Välitalo, Plan International Finland
• Salla Nazarenko, Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Wayan Vota, Kurante

Event Photos

Check out the awesome Fail Festival SLUSH Impact photos!