FuckUp Nights May, presented by Melbourne Knowledge Week

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About the event:

Welcome to FuckUp Nights Melbourne! With 200 people regularly in attendance at our events, we are here to celebrate the mistakes, the failures, and fucktastic stories that make us the humans that we are.

We are presenting a very special event for May in collaboration with Melbourne Knowledge Week, the City of Melbourne's unique annual festival for a smart and innovative city, where the future city is bought to life, today.

Get your FREE tickets here: http://mkw.melbourne.vic.gov.au/fup-nights/

FuckUp Nights is a global movement born in Mexico in 2012 to share public business failure stories with hundreds of people attending each event around the world. Each month speakers will be invited to talk about their FuckUp stories; we’ll learn about their biggest mistakes, what they learned, how they moved on- all whilst sharing invaluable advice along the way.

The speakers will candidly share in 7 minutes:

• What their project / business was
• What went wrong / How it affected their personal life / What they learned / What they would do differently.

Speaker 1: James Gallichio (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gallichio/)- Developer and much more...

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James has a background in psychology, and has been working to help develop businesses in fashion, tech and design since 2009.

In 2011 he co-founded a major Australian conference - that has recently been controversially featured on ABC's Q&A as well as Triple J's Hack.

From unsigned and broken contracts, to working with the wrong cofounders, to a $250,000 debt that bankrupted them, James will be telling the story of this company, and the many, many, many fuck-ups that were involved.

Follow James on Twitter here: @jvgee (https://twitter.com/jvgee?lang=en)

Speaker 2: Camilla Peffer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/camillapeffer/)- Host and Editor at All We Cannot Say (http://www.allwecannotsay.com/)

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Camilla Peffer is the host and editor of All We Cannot Say. She has a tertiary and professional background in copywriting, marketing and journalism, and has a keen interest in psychology, sexual health, mental health and the human heart. Although a professional fashion and SEO copywriter by trade, she has found podcasting to be the ideal medium to explore modern relationships, love, sex and emotional intelligence. Through her interviews with industry experts and enthusiastic storytellers, All We Cannot Say has transformed from being a personal, mental library into a multi-channel container of meaning.

Camilla currently resides in Melbourne. Her OKCupid profile says she is ‘aggressive’ and ‘friendly’.

Follow Camilla on Twitter here: @camillapeffer (https://twitter.com/camillapeffer)

Speaker 3: Merrilee McCoy - Producer, Melbourne StorySLAMs | The Moth (https://www.themoth.org/events)

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Merrilee McCoy is a 'multipotentialite' with over 10 years experience in the creative industries both on and off stage. She’s trained in narrative long-form improvisation and has both performed and taught in Australia, NZ, and USA. Behind the scenes, Merrilee’s worked as a producer, marketer, and administrator, and with a number of pan-artform festivals under her belt.

Merrilee's currently bringing her colourful experience:

• to produce locally for NYC’s storytelling sensation The Moth,

• as General Manager for creative start up, Trash Puppets,

• and also helping people shape their stories through her own creative consultancy.

Follow Merrilee on Twitter here: @mezzamac (https://twitter.com/mezzamac)

Speaker 4: Omar De Silva (https://www.linkedin.com/in/omar-de-silva-7380b925/) - CEO and Co-Founder, The Plato Project (https://theplatoproject.com/)

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Omar has a proven track record of venture development and investment through a variety of sectors, including education, property and professional services. Most recently Omar’s focus has been on education and the entrepreneurial eco-system of Australia. In 2014–15, working with education startup Ducere, Omar developed and launched Australia’s first degrees in Applied Entrepreneurship and Applied Social Entrepreneurship, which gave students the chance to build their own businesses with every assignment.

In 2015 Omar became an ambassador of the G20 Global Entrepreneurship Week and in 2016 is working as a Sherpa with the G20 Australian Young Entrepreneur Alliance. Omar continues to work closely with the board of The Snowdome Foundation (a preeminent blood cancer charity), is on the senior committee of his childhood cricket club and serves as an advisor to many burgeoning start-up organisations and entrepreneurs.

Follow Omar on Twitter here: @omardesilva (https://twitter.com/omardesilva?lang=en)

At the end of each person’s story, you’ll have a chance to ask questions- nothing too cheeky, but feel free to dig around.You’ll hear stories and advice you won’t get elsewhere - and these stories will (hopefully) put you in good stead to not make the same fuckups. Attendance is free, but we do ask you to register in advance.

Organised by our partners City of Melbourne (http://mkw.melbourne.vic.gov.au/program/), KJR (http://kjr.com.au/), Inspire9 (http://inspire9.com/) and General Assembly Melbourne (https://generalassemb.ly/).

Find out more at: https://www.facebook.com/FUNMelb/

Attendance is free, but we do ask you to register in advance.

Registration is a two-step process ....

1. Please RSVP on this meetup page, so we can plan according to the level of interest

2. Proceed here for your FREE tickets: http://mkw.melbourne.vic.gov.au/fup-nights/