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FAIL! talks

FAIL! talks organised by E-Cell on 2 March was a roaring success with a turnout of over 350+ enthused people and a reach of 2.8k on the live stream. The message of celebrating failure was clearly sent across and the audience was moved by the personal stories of the speakers.

Speakers included Aditi Avasthi- CEO Embibe, Ajay Siotra- Masterchef India Top 16, Viiveck Verma- Chief Strategy Officer Srinivasa Farms and Curator at TEDx Hyderabad, Dutee Chand- Silver Medalist Asian Games and Pankhuri Gidwani- Miss Grand India 2016

Started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with professors from MIT and the Ivy League colleges as past speakers, FAIL! has now reached Asia at IIIT Hyderabad. Some past speakers of FAIL! include Mira Wilczek (President and CEO of Cogo Labs), Daniel Jackson (Professor and Associate Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Deborah Blum(Director of the Knight Science Journalism Program).

FAIL! is aimed at facing the moments of failure head-on, sharing them and most importantly improving by them. It is a celebration of moments we don’t generally share.