“SNAP Summit: FailCon” is a full-day conference focusing on the trials and tribulations of now successful entrepreneurs.  You aren’t a real entrepreneur until you’ve had to deal with failure, and recovering from it - financially, emotionally, and practically - can be challenging.  Hear how some major players in the industry have dealt with startup troubles, recovered, and kept a positive, tenacious, and energetic attitude through it all.

This year’s conference brings together a full spectrum of attendees, including independent developers, up-and coming startups, all the way up to large companies looking to get in on the next big thing.

The conference will debate questions such as:

  • What variables do VCs watch for to preemptively prevent a company going under?
  • How do you financially prepare for the possibility of failure: legally, fiscally, and in your team?
  • What have some of the leading executives today learned from their past experiences?
  • What are you watching out for with the current social web and rising companies?
  • How do you layoff or fire an employee or partner?
  • How do you save a failing company?
  • How do you recover from a failed product or marketing campaign?

Perks for every attendee include:

  • A full conference pass
  • Admission to all Main Stage, Workshop, and Demo talks
  • Complimentary breakfast, snacks, and beverages
  • Free wifi throughout the venue
  • Nifty schwag from our sponsors
  • Networking time to meet with major players in the online companies and communities.

Based in San Francisco, SNAP Summit is a production of Room Full Of People.

Christian Perry
Co-Founder & CEO

Christian is one of San Francisco’s leading tech event organizers. He produces SF Beta, San Francisco’s largest monthly startup mixer, along with Founders’ Feast and geekSessions. Prior to his foray into the event and conference arena, Christian was the Founder & CEO of ZapTix, an online box office for small and independent venues.

Christian graduated in 2006 from the University of Chicago with a degree in Sociology.

Cassandra Phillipps
Co-Founder & Events Director

Cassandra Phillipps has been planning tech events and conferences for two years, including SFbeta, InterPlay, SWAT Summit, SNAP Summit, and various user groups and meetings companies. Before that, she spent most of her time in classrooms, rehearsal halls, and dark theaters, stage managing (and occasionally directing, acting in, and designing for) various theaters including American Conservatory Theater, Court Theater, CalShakes, and Aurora. She recently co-founded Trogger.com - the first forum software built for the social web. In her (rare) free time, she enjoys board games, comic book, and building comics for various parties and events.

Diane Loviglio
Assistant Producer
Diane is the Co-Founder and VP Business Development at Wattbot. She received her Bachelor of Humanities and Arts in Anthropology and Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005, focusing on sustainable design. At Carnegie Mellon, she served as project manager for the first and largest green roof on campus, Sustainable Materials Guru for the Solar Decathlon, and Designer/Director of their first peer-to-peer environmental education program. She was most recently co-chair of the San Francisco Green Roof Task Force and a research assistant and recruiter for Intel Research Berkeley’s Bright Green study.