Co-founder & CEO of Monks (formerly Media.Monks), redefined what’s possible in digital creativity. He grew the company from a basement boutique into one of the world’s biggest creative powerhouses of content, data, media, and tech. 

With offices in Amsterdam, London, and New York and a team of over 9,000 talented monks, Monks is regularly ranked among Cannes Lions Top 10 Creative Companies and was named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year.

His golden rules  buy, barter, or die and don’t play it safe,  turned into award-winning work for brands impossible to ignore, yet he still can’t explain why most agencies are stuck in 1999. Investor, mentor, and guide to young entrepreneurs, Victor is one of the most influential voices in today’s digital economy.

At Failed, he’ll pull back the curtain on the unfiltered, human chaos behind global creative success: the risks, the weird turns, and the holy‑$%& breakthroughs that actually fuel innovation.

Clients include: BMW, Google, Netflix, Dove, Mini, Kraft Heinz, Orbit, General Motors, Samsung.

Portuguese writer, journalist, creative director, and documentary filmmaker is the creative director and brain behind chef Ljubomir Stanisic’s 100 Maneiras Michelin-starred restaurant group. 

She co-authored, scripted, and directed content for globe-trotting Papa Quilómetros and the fiery kitchens of Hell’s Kitchen Portugal.

At Failed, she’s peeling back the curtain to reveal the human side, the untold stories behind success , the mistakes, awkward experiments, and messy, human creativity we rarely see. 

Author of four books and winner of the International Academy of Gastronomy and Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Mónica digs into real stories, real people, trying to escape from the linear, AI and algorithm-driven life.

Slavimir Stojanovic Futro is the kind of name everyone in the creative industry knows. Designer. Artist. Writer. Professor.

A Belgrade-born creative with 200+ international awards, lifetime achievement recognition, and a career that, on paper, looks like a masterclass in getting everything right. His work has been featured in major design magazines, books, galleries, museums, and is part of permanent collections at the Pompidou Museum in Paris, the Museum of Arts and Advertising in Hamburg, and the Poster Museum in Warsaw.

At FAILED, he doesn’t come to talk about the awards. He comes as someone everyone knows to talk about the doubts, the exits, the risks, and the decisions that actually shaped his life and work.

Fran Mubrin is the creative force behind some of the most complex digital brands in Croatia. Leading a 30+ strong crew of designers, copywriters, producers, and animators, he turns creative chaos into award‑winning realities for clients who dare to play.

Based in Zagreb, he’s Executive Creative Director at 404 and a partner in MYTY Group. Two-time Croatia Young Lions Grand Prix winner, he took Croatia to Cannes twice.

Off the clock, he launched the MOP Festival in 2012, a decade-long celebration of local creative community, networking, and cultural exchange. He’s also ⅕ of IxDA Croatia, pushing interaction design forward and challenging the next wave of designers to not play it safe.
At FAILED, Fran comes to redefine failure in the creative industry, and show that what looks like failure is often just success waiting to be understood.