Program · Culture
The truth about failure, out loud.
Fuckup Nights is a global event series where people tell, and hear, the story of a professional failure. Pulse runs it in Belgium to change how this country talks about failing.
The record
Five people in ten never start a business, because failing frightens them.
- 25
- Evenings across Belgium by the end of 2026
- 8
- Belgian cities that have hosted one
- 3000+
- People who have heard a failure story told out loud
- 3
- Languages the evenings run in: French, Dutch and English
What it is
Everyone tells the success story.
In our working lives we forget that we are human, and that failure is natural and unavoidable. The business world is short on honesty and humility. Fuckup Nights breaks that habit in more than 250 cities across 70 countries: people take a stage and tell what went wrong.
Honest conversations about professional failure make work healthier, cut frustration and let innovation out. And failure stops being private the moment it is said out loud to a room of strangers.
Why Pulse runs this
A country that hides failure produces fewer entrepreneurs.
Belgium treats a failed business as something to keep quiet, and that silence has a price. The next founder repeats a mistake nobody admitted to, and the one who never begins is simply lost.
Changing that is cultural work rather than a program, which is exactly the kind of work a foundation can carry. Entrepreneurs take a stage and tell the real story, and for one evening failure stops being shameful.
In the room
What a FuckUp Night looks like.
Different cities, different evenings, the same room.
The films
The aftermovies, city by city.
Not every evening is filmed. These are the ones that were.
Antwerp 2026
Ghent 2026
Liège 2024
Made possible by
Who makes the evening happen.
Under licence
Fuckup Nights is a global format. Pulse Foundation holds the licence for Belgium and runs the evenings here.
With the support of
These evenings happen thanks to the support of Xerius.
In partnership with
Belgium's 40 under 40 is a partner of these evenings. Pulse also works with them on BE.Entrepreneur.
Next step
Come to the next one, or take the stage.
Fuckup Nights Belgium runs in two regions. Pick yours, see the next dates and book a seat. And if you have run something that failed, the stage is open. Tell us in a few lines what happened.
