Three speakers will candidly talk about their biggest professional failure, sharing in 7 minutes:

• What their project was
• What went wrong
• How it affected their personal life
• What they learned
• What they would do differently
  At the end of each story you, the audiance, ask questions. All accompanied by beer and good friends.

The speakers who will candidly share their FuckUp Stories in February are:

Pieter Baert

Pieter Baert, digital innovation expert at Play. A couple of years ago, Pieter got to a point where he was absolutely fed up with his job and came to the conclusion that he may as well just quit and make it bigger and better on his own. And quitting his job he did, but making it on his own proved harder than anticipated. He will talk about what it was like to realize 6 months later that he was at loose ends, that quitting his job had been a rash decision and that he had to go back into employment. The story doesn’t end there though, because Pieter will also explain us exactly what he’s doing differently now, considering that he recently quit his job again.

Bie Vancraeynest

Bie Vancraeynest, coordinator of Youth Club Chicago. Chicago is a center for socially vulnerable youngsters in the heart of Brussels. Chicago organizes all types of cultural-boundaries-breaking activities to make children and teenagers more resilient and strengthen their place in society. They dance, play football, make art, improvise, cook, laugh, take care of one another and – fail. Bie will tell us about the times when she failed. That is to say, the times when she failed to communicate with the youngsters and talk to them in the right cultural language, and the times when she gave her heart and soul trying to help someone and ended up hitting her head against a wall.
(For the sake of explaining the language failure adequately, bits and pieces of this talk will be in French.)

Luis Miguel Girão

Luis Miguel Girão, founder of Artshare, researcher focused on the bridge between arts and technology. Luis went from wanting to be a musician to wanting to be an architect to discovering his one true passion for arts-media-IT-interaction to fucking up his first arts-media-IT-interaction project and being very disoriented and discouraged. He will talk about how he learned to put the event into perspective and how he in time became really comfortable with the possibility of failure always being present.