FuckUp Nights February- Stories about Failure

Welcome to FuckUp Nights Melbourne! Here we are with our first storytelling event for 2019- smack bang on Valentines Day!

We have grown a huge community of people attending our events in Melbourne as they experience a showcase of amazing stories of personal, business and project failure and the wisdom and resilience learned from such experiences.

We are at The Goods Shed Innovation Hub for this one, highlighting speakers sharing their stories and why they do what they do 'for the love of it...'

FREE tickets here: https://funfebruary.eventbrite.com

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 7-10 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: Warren Davies, Partner and Managing Director at Pretty Neat // Broadcaster at Byte into it. https://www.prettyneat.com.au/ // https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/byte-into-it

Warren is working on better practices and approaches to life, commerce and our community. He is working with brands, orgs and government at Pretty Neat to help good business to act. He is a broadcaster on technology show Byte Into It on Triple R FM. He plays footy (badly) in the Renegade Pub Footy League. He has probably fucked up quite a lot over the years.

Follow Warren on Twitter and everything he does: @nottheword @_PrettyNeat @byteintoit @3RRRFM

Speaker 2: Anna McCracken, Cofounder & Director at BalancingAct3

With an undergraduate degree in Social Work and a Masters in Human Rights Law, Anna's nomadic lifestyle allows her to travel the country working in partnership with communities as a facilitator of conversation and as a link to business and Government around resourcing community led solutions to social challenges.

Anna's current passion project is exploring the role immersive technology can play in storytelling and language preservation in remote communities. Excavator of the 'real story', Anna challenges the fundamental way we address the social challenges of our time, through connection, play, bold ideas and storytelling.

Speaker 3: Con Frantzeskos, CEO & Founder of PENSO

Con is one of the world’s leading digital marketing strategists, working as an advisor to startups and scaleups such as: Emirates, MYOB, ANZ, Hilton Worldwide, Swisse, 3M, and the Australian Government. PENSO is a technology-enabled marketing business with offices in Melbourne, Dubai and San Francisco.

He is a Presenter and Partner of renowned London-based The Future Laboratory, and also a founding board member of LaunchVic, Victoria’s Startup agency that aims to make Victoria one of the world’s top destinations for entrepreneurs, startups, and scaleups.

Follow Con on Twitter: @ConFrantzeskos & @PensoAgency

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.

FREE tickets here: https://funfebruary.eventbrite.com

We get by with a little help from our friends- our supporters KJR, Young Henrys, General Assembly, Inspire9 & Collabosaurus.

Find out more and join the community at https://www.facebook.com/FUNMelb