Who Are The Producers?
Cass Phillipps – Executive Producer
Cassandra Phillipps has been planning startup industry events and conferences for nearly four years, including FailCon, SF MusicTech Summit, Inside Social Apps, Unleashed Talent, and many more. She works closely with Bay Area founders and executives, helping them develop engaging events, stimulate informative conversations, attract experienced participants, and host a smooth and successful event. She has a bachelors degree in Human Development from the University of Chicago. In her rare free time, she enjoys costume making and comic book reading.
Roxanne Varza – Associate Producer
Originally from Silicon Valley, Roxanne graduated from UCLA and worked for the Invest in France Agency (AFII) for 2 years before moving to France in 2009 to pursue a joint masters degree at Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics in International Political Economics. During her master's program, she became the Editor of TechCrunch France and co-founded Girls in Tech Paris. She recently joined the team at Startupbootcamp, a European startup accelerator with programs in 5 different countries and is also involved in LeBridge, an organization that seeks to connect the entrepreneurial scenes in different European cities. Roxanne loves innovation and also writes about entrepreneurship in Europe on her personal blog, Techbaguette.com
A FailCon France Rehash
Thank you all for an incredible inaugural FailCon France - our first official international conference. We hope to travel to dozens more cities in 2012, so be sure to email me if you are interested in hosting it in your town: cass[at]webwallflower.com
To get the full value of the event, you really had to be there. Participants - audience and speakers alike - shared lessons learned, asked tough questions, offered advice, and got business done. However, I wanted to make sure some of the great resources and follow-up information from the event was accessible to everyone. Below, find some of great information, photographs, quotes, and press from our first FailCon France - September 22nd, 2011
Slides and Summaries
All of the slides from our speakers can be found in our Slideshare Group - along with slides from past San Francisco conferences and events. Be sure to join the group for updates from all of our events in the coming months.
We've also set up a Storify page of the most informative tweets of the day.
Photos
A number of wonderful photographers were at our event! You can see some of their work below:
- Shary Pic aggregates all the pics attendees put on twitter.
- Julia Buchner took some great photos.
- Olivier Ezratty took incredible photos, too!
- If you or someone you know has more photos, please don't hesitate to let me know.
Press
For our first international event, FailCon France received excellent press and write-ups. If you find more, please let me know:
- France 24 had a great segment on the conference on their Tech24 portion of the news.
- Clubic wrote two great French posts, one on our Platform Dependency Panel and another on our Investment Panel.
- Silicon Maniacs wrote a great French/English post reviewing the event.
- Atelier also had great coverage of the Investment Panel at the conference.
- And Journal du Net has a great review of some of our speakers and topics covered.
Next Year
We'd love to do this again next fall! If you want to get involved early, or see it travel to your city, please email me!
