It’s time for a Fail Festival – a celebration of failure as a mark of leadership and innovation in pushing the boundaries of what is possible and profitable.

The 10th Annual Small Business Leadership Conference, presented by the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship, part of the Florida State University College of Business, is on a mission to make failure acceptable in small business discussions.

There is great value in examining our mistakes and learning from failure as we go beyond the easy and the simple.

Three panelists will join Keynote Speaker Wayan Vota to talk about their past business fails and lessons learned for future success at the Thursday Keynote Session.

Then we’ll open up the discussion for audience participation and hear about failure they have had in business either before or during the pandemic, how they overcame, and why their failure shaped them for success in their current or new business.