Around 100 Parisien Tech Advocates – the newest members of the Global Tech Advocates family – spontaneously sang Happy Birthday to my daughter, who I brought with me for the launch. I told them she was partly responsible. You see, Brexit – and the opportunities it is robbing her of – makes me look for bridges. So when I realised GTA had no Paris branch, I asked Russ if I could found one. Valentin, my coFounder at StoryUp, did a brilliant job of organising the first meeting at his coworking space Be-Coworking. And it was great to see the launch in ComputerWeekly.

BTW we did do something nice for her actual birthday: hunting unicorns at the Paris zoo.