Fuckup Nights Vol 27 - To fear failure is to limit your life!

Looking for speakers stories to tells for 2023!

While we're just one chapter in the Fuckup Nights community of over 250 cities internationally, we're proud to have cultivated an open minded and diverse community of over 1000 fuckuppers who come together to share stories, have fun and learn.

If you know someone with a tale who can speak from the heart, lets talk! Send me a DM, or tell us about your story using the following form: https://lnkd.in/gQfkZffu 📫 

Hope to hear all about your fuckups soon!

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Volume 27 is coming!

FuckUp Nights Tokyo is back for Volume 27! Last time was a blast so we are already excited to be inspired by the next FuckUp stories about failure and the lessons learned from them!

This time we'll be meeting at the Code Chrysalis office!

About FuckUp Nights

FuckUp Nights is a global movement that started in Mexico in 2012 and has spread to 250+ cities in more than 80+ countries around the world. The concept of FuckUp Nights is simple: breaking away from the stigmas surrounding (business) ‘failure’. The lessons we can learn from failure are often more valuable and interesting than stories about success. The majority of startups and professionals don’t create ‘the project of year’ on their first attempt, yet we rarely hear about their failures in books, magazines or at events. FuckUp Nights wants to change that by organizing events where people are able to come together, network, share, learn and celebrate stories about business failure.

Why join FuckUp Nights Tokyo?

We would like to invite all (aspiring) entrepreneurs, freelancers and professionals who want to hear, share, discuss and celebrate stories about business failure. We offer you an opportunity to freely discuss the concept of failure, and learn from the experiences of others; all in a cozy and casual setting. This will be a great opportunity for you to meet new like-minded people and have a chance to share issues that you do usually not tend to discuss at other events.

The Fuck Up Nights Event Format

The format of every FuckUp Nights is simple: 3 or 4 people take the stage to share their FuckUp stories, followed by a Q&A, and ending with time to network. The presenters tell their story with their slides in 7 minutes. The stories are always structured in the following way:

1) What was your project?
2) What went wrong?
3) What did you learn?
4) What would you do differently?

Speaker Profiles

Speaker 1: Jatin Kumar, HR Business Partner at Mercari
Jatin has been working in the HR domain in Japan for several years now. His main interests lie in HR tech, People Analytics, tech recruitment and leadership coaching.
He is a passionate curry lover and runs his website/app called GoCurry as a side project

Story Teaser
It has been 8 years now, but I still remember that how hard I cried in the corner after being scolded by my engineering manager in front of my peers. Then I thought that it was just the situation around me that was fucked-up. But when I retrospect now, I understand that it was me who fucked-up. Story of highs and lows, self-belief and self-acceptance, this talk won't have like a typical Bollywood movie but will have enough drama to entertain you!

Speaker 2: Misha Yurchenko Founder @ Tokyo Mindfulness
Misha runs meditation events and retreats across Japan and works as a consultant in the clean-tech industry

Story Teaser
Misha was born in Ukraine and grew up in Texas and Arizona. He moved to Japan after graduation where he helped tech companies like Amazon and Facebook hire in Japan. After a few years, he got the travel bug and decided to quit. His adventures took him across the world to partake in plant medicine ceremonies, silent meditation retreats and long-term water fasting.

He wanted to live the "startup dream" and launched his own startup, raised money and grew it with two co-founders in the coaching space. It was one of the most painful experiences of his life. This led to severe burnout that left him physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted, wondering what the hell happened. His journey to recovery led him to partake in over 20 days of silent meditation and to question everything...

Speaker 3: Cesar Antonio Diez Pachas, Delivery Lead at Octopus Energy (Kraken Technologies)
Cesar lived 17 years in South America (Peru), 13 years in Japan, 5 years in Singapore and recently he is back in Tokyo. After getting scholarships from the Japanese government and Nitori for his studies in Osaka and Kobe, Cesar wanted to extend his life in Japan, so he moved to Tokyo to work with NTT.

While working in NTT, Cesar discovered his passion in Digital x Product x Agile when he was doing volunteer work. With his new passion he changed career and worked in companies like Rakuten (Japan & Singapore), L'Oreal (Singapore), Vestiaire Collective (Singapore). Also he was the Director of Technology at Wunderman Thompson (Japan) before coming back to the startup world with Octopus Energy.

Story Teaser
"If I can improve this unpopular product, I can improve anything"
In 2019, Cesar was in Singapore and he was assigned as Producer (Product x Project Manager) for Rakuten Websearch, a product in iOS, Android, PC and toolbar that was developed from Singapore. This product was unprofitable and had a low rating in Google Play (2.6). A change was necessary.

Cesar joined this new team and product with the belief that this was his chance to prove he can improve any product, even unsuccessful ones. After a "S" level trouble (this type of trouble goes directly to CEO Mikitani-san), he discovered there were more problems than a failing product. The problem was deeper. In his story, Cesar will share his experience, learnings and how it influenced his future roles.

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Speakers Wanted for 2023!
We are looking for speakers who would like to share their stories with our audience! Do you have a project that went down south, a business deal that fell through, or any other type of story you can share with us, please join us on stage! Speaker applications can be send through the following form: Tell us your FuckUp Story!