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For six years, conference organizers have worked hard to create the world’s most boring conference. Author James Ward conceived the idea after organizers cancelled another conference. Ward imagined a one-day celebration of the mundane, ordinary, obvious, and East German traffic lights. Ward said the…

In 2009, Cassandra Phillips launched a one-day conference celebrating failure in high tech world of Silicon Valley. The conference was successful for four years, and now Phillips says her conference isn’t needed any more because failure has become so common in high-tech ventures. In fact, according to…