For many years, I’ve focused on in-person Fail Festival sessions. Either as big events onto themselves, or as the keynote presentation in an annual conference or signature event. I love the humanity of connecting presenters to their audience in real life with every participant feeling a keen sense of connection with the speakers and each … Continue reading Learning from Failure Virtually – Online via Zoom
Failure is the f-word in international development. Unspoken in polite company, yet a reality we all must face. We often work in failed states, in market failure economies, on intractable problems that have stymied others for decades, if not centuries. How arrogant or foolish of us to expect success 100% of the time? But if … Continue reading Home
Organizing a Fail Festival is like any other event. You could do it yourself, and learn as you fail, or you could hire someone who has the experience and systems to make the whole process easy and simple. Hi! I’m Wayan Vota, and I’ve failed often. I’ve even failed at Fail Festivals. That makes me … Continue reading Help
Fail Festival – a celebration of failure as a mark of leadership, innovation, and risk-taking in pushing the boundaries of what is possible in scaling ideas from pilots to global programs. Failure is the f-word of international development. Unspoken in polite company, but a reality in our work. We’re often in market failure environments, so who are … Continue reading Fail Festival DC 2014
Failure is the f-word of international development. Unspoken in polite company, but a reality in our work. We’re often in market failure environments, so who are we to expect success 100% of the time? That’s why we had Fail Festival DC 2013. We are on a mission to make failure acceptable in development discussions. There … Continue reading Fail Festival DC 2013