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 we to expect success 100% of the time?

That’s why its time for Fail Festival 2015. We are on a mission to make failure acceptable in development discussions. There is great value in examining our mistakes and learning from failure as we go beyond the easy and the simple.

Join us for the 5th annual event, and expect much laughter as 300 of your peers and colleagues navel-gaze at where we have all gone wrong in international development… and learn how not to star in next year’s Fail Festival.

Fail Festival 2015 will be hosted by FHI360 on Thursday, December 10th, in Academy Hall.  We will have an open bar and tasty nibbles to lubricate the conversation and celebrate the capstone ICT4Drinks event of the year.

Sign up now to attend – a ticket is mandatory for attendance.

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Featured Presenters

• Ann Hudock, Senior VP, Plan International USA
• Patrick Fine, CEO, FHI 360
• Susan Davis, Executive Director, Improve International
• Jacob Korenblum, CEO, Souktel Digital Solutions
• Winston Carroo, Director, Agricultural Missions
• Nick Martin CEO, TechChange
• Karen Snyder, Director, Free the Slaves
• Piers Bocock, Chief of Party, USAID LEARN
• Tova Scherr, Independent Consultant
• Robert Salerno, Development Specialist, DAI

Agenda

• 5:30-6:45pm – Open Bar Happy Hour
• 6:45-8:00pm – Fail Festival
• 8:00-8:30pm – Applause and Last Call

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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!

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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 its time for the third Fail Festival UK. Building on Fail Faire UK 2012 and Fail Fest UK 2014, we are on a mission to make failure acceptable in development discussions. There is great value in examining our mistakes and learning from failure as we go beyond the easy and the simple.

We navel-gazed at where we have all gone wrong in international development with these brave leaders on Wednesday, July 8th, 2015, at PricewaterhouseCoopers London:

Featured Presenters

• Chris Locke, Caribou Digital
• Dave Whiteland, mySociety
• Eleanor Harrison, GlobalGiving UK
• H. Tomi Davies, African Business Angels Network
• Pamela McLean, Dadamac
• Vaughan Lindsay, Leapfrog Invest
• Wayan Vota, Kurante

And we celebrated in style!

As you can see from the photographs from the event we had an amazing good time, and we were even joined by David Cameron and Ed Miliband at Fail Fest UK 2015:

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