Early Career: Real Career Stories: Mistakes, Failures, and Lessons Learned

Everyone makes mistakes early in their career. The missed deadline, the project that fell apart, the decision you’d take back. What separates people isn’t avoiding those moments, it’s what they learn from them.

We’re bringing together a panel of IT and tech leaders to talk openly about mistakes and failures that shaped them: what went wrong, what it cost, what they’d do differently, and what they carried forward. This is an honest, peer-level conversation, not a highlight reel.

Come to listen, ask your own questions, and get the kind of perspective that’s hard to find anywhere else. We’ll leave plenty of time for discussion.

Meet our panelists: Chris Hickok – Messer Construction. Dan Whitacre. Nick Hamilton – 84.51. Juan Cortes – OPW Global. Keron Salmon.

Aug 25th, 5:30-7:30, Kao Suite 245 – 1819 Innovation Hub