FailCon comes to Asia, touches down in Singapore on Oct 15

For the first time in Asia, the US event on failure, FailCon, is coming to Singapore this October 15. First started in 2009 with more than 400 attendees, FailCon now happens across the globe. FailCon Singapore is a one-day conference for technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success.

The underlying message is: If you are not making mistakes, you are not striving high enough.

FailCon’s goal is to strengthen the regional startup ecosystem and promote failure as an inevitable part of entrepreneurship. Let’s work together to de-stigmatize risk-taking and failure in the region by exploring failure in an Asian context and uncovering how companies deal with failure in the West.

Speakers

The line-up so far looks amazing, with a whole bunch of people flying in from across Asia and the US.

– Lyle Fong, Chief Strategist & Co-Founder Lithium Technologies
– Ben Huh, Founder & CEO, Cheezburger
– Ho Kwon Ping, founder and Executive Chairman, Banyan Tree Holdings Limited
– Patrick Lee, Co-founder alive not dead, previously co-founded Rotten Tomatoes
– Carl Coryell-Martin, Managing Director, Singapore office of {New Context}
– Paul Bragiel, Managing Partner, i/o Ventures
– Dr. Bernard Leong, Vistaprint and SGE (view our team page)
– Gwendolyn Regina Tan, SGE (view our team page)

More to come.

Event Details

When: Monday 15th October 2012
Where: TAB, 442 Orchard Road, #02-29, Singapore 238879
Entry: Paid event.

REGISTER HERE.

This follows two other recent events on failure in Singapore: SUTD’s Fail Week and FailStock. We’re very excited to have more talk on failure in Asia. SGE’s Gwen might also speak at the annual SXSX conference in the US in March 2013 on the culture of Asian entrepreneurs and failure. Vote here if you wanna see it happen!