Hello and welcome to the Times Tech podcast. I'm Danny Fortson, Danny in the Valley.

And I'm Katie Prescott, not in the city today, but in the depths of the Oxfordshire countryside.

So Katie in the country, your Wi-Fi is okay?

Just about, but only because I'm at a tech conference in the countryside where the

Wi-Fi is strong and the vibe is good.

But I can tell you on the way here, sorry, I'm looking out the window and there's a robot

running across the lawn, like not amongst the cows, but almost.

Yeah, the Wi-Fi wasn't brilliant on the way here. So do tell what conference in

this week of many, many, many tech events, conferences, etc. are you at? And what have you,

what are you doing there? Yeah, it has been the week of, well, the two weeks of European tech

conferences, right? We had South by Southwest London, the first of those last week.

And then this week has been London Tech Week, but also Vivetech in Paris, where I was yesterday.

Maybe, maybe.

Super cool.

And now we are back in England, bucolic England, in the Cotswolds, at a conference or get-together, really, called Founders Forum.

And it is, I think, my favourite tech event of the year.

So it was started by Brent Hoberman, who was one of the founders of Last Minute.com,

and store of the British tech scene 20 years ago,

and it's their 20th anniversary today.

20 years. That makes me feel old.

And it brings together a really extraordinary collection of entrepreneurs,

corporate and investors,

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