# Tokyo Fail Club 5.5

> A compact Tokyo Fail Club session at Venture Cafe featuring two speakers sharing personal stories of failure and lessons learned.

This event has ended.

- When: Thu, July 23, 2026 18:00–20:00 JST
- Where: Minato City, Japan · In person
- Region: Kanto (Tokyo)
- Organizer: TFC
- Language: EN
- Source: Luma — https://lu.ma/w6w3lfx6
- Page: https://japantech.info/events/luma-w6w3lfx6/

## Summary

Tokyo Fail Club returns for a special mini session hosted by Venture Cafe, featuring two speakers sharing candid stories about failure and what they learned from the experience, followed by open Q&A and networking.

Tokyo Fail Club is a community where creative people share honest, vulnerable stories about failure, aiming to create space to celebrate failure and rethink what success looks like.

This session features Heather Dobbin, a Tokyo-based executive coach, who will discuss the cost of isolation in leadership, and Bryon Gibbens, co-founder of EcoAI, who will discuss the cost of over-giving and the importance of protecting one's own energy.

## About the community

Tokyo Fail Club is a recurring community where people share candid, vulnerable stories about failure, creating space to celebrate failure and rethink conventional ideas of success. Sessions typically feature a small number of speakers followed by open Q&A and networking.

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