11th December

Fuckup Nights Perth: 2nd Anniversary Edition

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Event description

In 2017 Impact Seed held an end of year event entitled "Impact Startup; Stories & Battle Scars" on making entrepreneurship real and raw, sharing stories of failure.

After that we thought "Hey, telling the truth about failure in public just isn't a thing in WA.. let's make it one!"

That was the genesis of the Fuckup Nights Perth chapter! Come and join us for our 2-year anniversary and Christmas celebration on Wednesday 11th December 2019 as we bring 3 leading speakers to the stage for a fun night sharing stories of failure as we wind down to the holidays. All proceeds go to a WA social enterprise.

Fuckup Nights is the most active creators movement on the Planet. Over 10,000 people in 300 cities go to fuckup nights to listen to 3 people share their failures. The movement is dedicated to three kinds of people: Those who have failed.. Those who will fail.. and the liars.

BOOK NOW FOR WHAT WILL BE ANOTHER SELLOUT EVENT.. CAPACITY AT THE BRISBANE HOTEL IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO 130 ATTENDEES.

Speakers

Bonnie Lin - Advisor, Investor, Speaker

Bonnie is an advisor, investor and speaker with 20 years of international experience in technology, manufacturing, and government. She works with corporates, family offices, and governments in Asia and Australia on innovation investment strategy, including venture capital, impact investment, and technology-led economic development.

Bonnie’s background includes dot com PR in Silicon Valley with the tech giants of today, cross-border M&A in China, and R&D grants in the US. As a 4x founder, Bonnie has advised and mentored over 70 entrepreneurs and business leaders, including coaching Shark Tank startups. She is passionate about entrepreneurship, social innovation, and women in leadership.

Bonnie will share her fuckup stories in angel investing, running a family business, and surviving 3 recessions in the face of personal tragedy.

Daniel Stacey - Chief Development Officer, Minderoo

Our second speaker for this special 2nd anniversary Fuckup Night Perth is now confirmed, this is going to a hell of an end of year edition! Daniel Stacey works across the $8bn Minderoo Group and $1.5bn Minderoo Foundation to help incubate and develop new philanthropic initiatives and commercial opportunities, including helping to develop and launch Minderoo’s ocean conservation and emerging technology initiatives.

He was previously senior correspondent for South Asia with theWall Street Journal, where he reported on a wide range of topics from India’s space program to the disappearance of MH370, following stints at the ABC and Financial Times Group.

Daniel will discuss an early career fuckup – the ultimate decline of his first company, a small publishing business launched in London 10 years ago that owned and operated the doomed publication Bad Idea Magazine.

Lindsay O'Sullivan - Chief Operating Officer, Keystart

Lindsay O'Sullivan is a seasoned strategy and operations executive who has worked in Australia and the UK, including in key leadership roles at the Chamber of Commerce & Industry WA, Bankwest, Herbert Smith Freehills, and NAB.

From managing geographically diverse teams of up to 800 people, and advising on trade and investment and innovation policy to full P&L responsibility for a $100M enterprise and the digital transformation of legacy businesses, Lindsay has no shortage of stories about failures and learnings, especially in light of managing a consumer driven financial services business in in a post-Royal Commission world. A 2012 Business News 40 Under 40 winner and a Leadership WA alumnus, Lindsay is also the Deputy Chair of Fringe World Festival and a director of IT consultancy, Veev Group.

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Our previous speakers included:

Fiona Bishop (Executive Manager at Western Power)
Andrew Hall (ex-VC and Chairman of Formalytics)
Nick Leigh (Head of Experience Design, Bankwest)
Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie (Human-focused technologist, award winning game designer)
Sahaja Springer (Kinesiologist for entrepreneurs)
Lacey Filipich (Founder, Money School, author)
Meg Burrage (Founder, Bubdesk)
Mike Edmonds (Founder, Chairman Meerkats)
Kevin Brown (Chief Product Officer, Virtual Gaming Worlds)
Sharon & Grant Grosser (Co Founders, SEQTA Software)
Fabian Le Gay Brereton (Co Founder, Greensense and General Manager Digital & Advisory, ERM Power)
Renée Gardiner (Founder, Growing Change)

Fuckup Nights Perth is brought to you by:

Why Fuckup Nights? Because with #peakstartup, a 90% failure rate, and all the talk of motivation and positivity, there’s something missing.. talking about failure, and learning from sharing stories of failure! Free your failures, Perth will thank you!

HOW IS IT DONE?

In every Fuckup Night 3 speakers tell their failure story explaining:
What was the project?
What went wrong?
What did they learn?
What would they do differently?

Each speaker tells their story in 10 images (~40 seconds per image, ~6mins total) followed by Q&A.

At the end of the speakers’ stories, attendees are welcome to stick around and network over drinks.

Previous Fuckup Night speakers have varied from social entrepreneurs, tech founders, and even a doctor who a few years ago opened an adult shop that went broke.

Just so you get an idea, Fuckup Nights is something between a party and a casual business conference :)

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

If you're a successful business owner or entrepreneur who has:

1) Failed, misjudged, fallen off a cliff or lost and been badly bruised on the career/professional path

2) Created a business success story on some level as a consequence of the learnings from aforementioned fuck up

3) Are willing to share 1+2 under Chatham House rules

4) Are driven by a desire to help others

Then we would love to hear from you as a speaker. Get in touch fupnightsperth@gmail.com

HOW CAN I ATTEND?

There will be 4 quarterly editions of Fuckup Nights in Perth. Our events are held at The Brisbane Hotel in Perth. Entry is $15 and includes light refreshments. Net proceeds will go to mental health charities and social enterprises.

BOOK NOW and stay tuned by following us on the social media links below.

https://www.facebook.com/Fupnightsperth/

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https://twitter.com/FuckupNightsPER

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Impact Seed

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Founded in 2014 in WA, Impact Seed is WA’s leading impact advisory, and a certified B-Corp. Our vision is to catalyse systems-change across finance, business and entrepreneurship by integrating social, cultural and environmental impact as key outcomes alongside financial metric for organisations, and to support ventures and investment. We work with corporates, not-for-profits, foundations, entrepreneurs and investors, supporting strategic design of impact and ESG outcomes, commercialisation and growth of enterprises founded upon these outcomes, and supporting pathways to investment for them.

As a proudly West Australian based advisory our focus is on place-based projects that aspire to create deep-impact here in WA, leveraging our state’s greatest strengths: natural and geographical advantages, resource rich public and private investment sectors, entrepreneurial and innovation talent, and deep traditional Aboriginal knowledge of how to care for Country on which we all depend.

We are committed to building trust-relationships with our clients and partners, grounded in two-way learning, authenticity, tailored and fit-for-purpose approaches to engaging with our clients, and leveraging our extensive networks to support the outcomes they want to achieve.