What if failure isn’t the end but the engine?

Learn More: https://venturecafeglobal.org/sessions/gg26-failure-is-the-engine/

Date: February 19th, 2026
Session Location: Toranomon Hills Forum Hall-B – Main Room
Session Organizer: Venture Café Tokyo
Language: English
Session Description:
Babson College Entrepreneurship Professor Yasuhiro “Yasu” Yamakawa shares the counterintuitive mantra behind resilient innovators that “Failure is Good” when you turn it into momentum. Drawing on two decades of teaching and field research, plus his track record as Co‑founder and first Executive Director who launched Venture Café Tokyo, Yasu will show how to create cultures that normalize pre‑mortems, set acceptable loss, and cycle Act → Learn → Build → Repeat.
Come ready to reframe risk, unlock bolder experiments, and leave with practical moves your team can use the very next day!
Session Speaker(s):

• Dr. Yasuhiro Yamakawa, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College