FuckUp Nights Melbourne March

Welcome to FuckUp Nights Melbourne: March 2023 edition!
RSVP here: https://buytickets.at/fuckupnightsmelbourne/872939

We're collaborating this month with the Data Informed Design Conference, a program convening world leading data, design, engineering and policy practitioners for catalytic conversations.

We're a storytelling-focussed gathering acknowledging the mistakes, failures, and fuckup stories that impact our personal lives and professional careers, affecting us as the humans that we are.

FuckUp Nights is a global movement born in Mexico in 2012 and established to help share public failure stories with hundreds of people attending each event around the world. Speakers 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.

Speaker 1: Paul Salmon - Founder & CEO, moodflx

Paul Salmon has been a successful professional athlete, media personality and businessman in Australia for over 35 years. As a professional athlete he retired as a 324 game AFL player with two AFL Premierships to his name.

Paul has also been an entrepreneur since the age of 17 having founded a number of start-ups to successful exit ranging from Tourism and Events and Network Commercialisation in Australia to Waste to Energy Tech globally. Paul also enjoyed an extensive media career with highlights being the host of ‘Sports World’ on Channel 7 and The Midday Show, Footy Show and ‘Time Out For Serious Fun’ for Channel 9.

Today he is the Founder and CEO of moodflx [and, in his spare time, Head of Commercial Development for AIA Australia. moodflx is the world’s only real time emotion and mood insight platform for organisations and their people that captures and reports hard data from location, environmental and behavioural factors that directly impact mood.
These factors are measurable and modifiable, enabling real time insights and behaviour change nudges, to benefit individuals, teams and organisations.

Paul on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-salmon-76b03146/
moodflx.com

Speaker 2: Tava Darakamaran, Strategic Engagement at Grimshaw Architects

Tava Darakamaran leads the Strategic Engagement stream at Grimshaw Architects, which includes her role curating the popular Grimshaw Breakfast series, which features a number of impressive and engaging topics by hosting artists, scientists, chefs, film makers, jazz musicians, and various other creatives at Grimshaw’s Gallery stage.

Tava has been embedded in a number of global brands along her career journey, including Ernst & Young, Anderson Consulting and Saatchi & Saatchi, where she was the Global Brand Strategist.
Tava is an experienced Brand Consultant, and in recent times was the Monash Art, Design & Architecture (MADA) Co-Director of Future Materials and Processes Lab.
https://grimshaw.global/

Speaker 3: Nic Smythe - CX, Product & Design Director at Thoughtworks ANZ

Originally from Queensland, Nic has been fucking up digital products for over 20 years, including for some of the biggest global and local brands.
After stints in content, product and design for Endemol and then the AFL, for the past decade he’s been working across the globe for tech, design and strategy consultancy Thoughtworks, where he current leads their CX, product and design services in Australia. Although based in Melbourne, he's still connected to his homeland as a member of the Queensland University of Technology Digital Media Research Centre's Advisory Committee.

https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-au

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At the end of each story, we have a bit of Q&A time where 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 FuckUp's.

RSVP here: https://buytickets.at/fuckupnightsmelbourne/841380

Our Presenting Partners

The Data Informed Design Conference convenes world leading data, design, engineering and policy practitioners for catalytic conversations. Explore the process and methods, emerging tech and data science, and meaningful impacts of data informed design and place based decision making.

Find out more: https://did.placeintelligence.ai/

Heaps Normal

Heaps Normal is an independent, alcohol-free beer company supporting everyday legends to dial the good times up to 11 and still perform at their best the next day.

https://heapsnormal.com/