It is the biggest show in Europe, especially for those of us who have operations in Central and Eastern Europe. It puts us all in a room together and it's a time where we can share views.

I would say that, at the moment, we are seeing more buoyancy in the market. Most of our members are reporting that they are seeing customers investing in software and infrastructure again.

We don't have Silicon Valley in the UK, so we don't have a single focus for our sector. It is much more dispersed into hundreds of thousands of two and three-person businesses.

I skied a mid-mountain run for my first run this morning and was, without an ounce of exaggeration, choking on the snow.

I think that they started playing in our face a little more. And they got us flustered. They rattled us.

Why they chose to pick on us and not this I think is very unfair.