"I was particularly interested in attending this series of talks because I personally love hearing about the journey that successful business people have taken to get to the positions they’re in now."

"We still have a ways to go, but at least it's providing the ability for us to understand how we should be using Gen AI to be more agile and hopefully productive in our ability to serve our clients; to understand how we need to change our ways of working and the talent set required to do so"

"One is [being] the technology officer who is responsible for all of the technology that powers McKinsey, all of the technology that we use to enable our clients; and then all of the platforms that enable both of those things.”"

"“I think the bigger challenge, which we've all had on the cloud journey, is how you train your teams to work very closely with your partners and understand the capabilities, the economics, the telemetry and make sure that we are using it and scaling as best we can.”"

"But I think the ability to be able to scale every aspect of what we do; create key partnerships with the hyperscalers in terms of what we want to develop, invest in, procure and go to market with; it sets us up very nicely.”"

"Once the highest value chunks are identified we synthesize the final answer and include citations back the underlying source documents”"

"I got quite a reputation for my Lotus skills"

"I’m Client 1 of our own transformation...""

"People think that Waste Warriors has some kind of funding from like the Queen of England or something. In India, NGOs have such a bad reputation that people don't want to believe that there are a few organisations working honestly and transparently for years as they believe in the cause."

"The money that the boys are making does not even cover the basic expense for the effort! The people refuse to participate and the shopkeepers do not wish to pool their benefits with the boys who are cleaning up. The people of Himachal are not willing to participate"

"This is not a sexy industry, I know. There is a social stigma attached to the job I do and I understand that it is even harder for people to turn up, as they have, for the cleanups we have organised. Waste Warriors has helped provide employment to the lowest class of people in the country and a chance to live with dignity.""

"The boys who work at Waste Warriors are like my brothers and I am ashamed that I can only pay them a meagre amount for the efforts they put in. They hike up and down the mountain, every week, in every season, in every state of health, just to pick up the garbage. They go from door to door collecting garbage from the homes that are brought down from the remote villages in the mountain for proper disposal"

"Today Waste Warriors has several projects working across tourist destinations in Himachal Pradesh. My heart will always lie in the Dharamshala but that project has reached a very difficult point,""

"Ensure you have digital talent in your organisation."

"What leadership is needed in this changed world? Admitting you may not know all the answers, prizing delegation rather than control, encouraging appropriate boldness over caution and value collaboration over individual effort."

"Is the customer/user the predominant focus? – the proposition should be designed around them to get the best chance of being successful"

"Honour the relationship between the customer/user and their digital footprint."

"So if we said to Erdem or Roksanda, “Help, we’ve run out of stock,” they would be incredibly helpful about making more for us."

"They were all quite new at the same time as we were launching on the internet."

"Tom smartly put computers in even back then and we gathered everyone’s address, and that became email, and so we already had all the data we were really connected to our customers by the time we launched online."

"I would spend my Saturdays rifling through thrift stores and saving up for things I couldn’t afford."

"I was always fascinated by the power of clothes and how clothes and fashion are evolving."

"They all had powerful personalities and a lot of it was expressed through their clothes."

"Art has been woven into our lives. The children have taken it up, too. Our 15-year-old does wonderful paintings."

"We have the same approach to art that we do when buying fashion."

"I remember one of the first artists I loved painted ballet dancers."

"For me it’s all about health and vitality and feeling really well; that makes a huge difference."

"I don’t mind being older, at all."

"I was very happy when we were just retail but our customers were travelling all over the world and it made sense that they could shop with us when they weren’t in London."

"We went online 10 years ago and it’s grown very organically."

"I get more and more confident about what we’re doing all the time."

"We’ve moved on from that, we’ve taken away uncertainty, which is good; that breeds positivity in British enterprise and the economy."

"I have also done a lot of work with the Prince’s Trust, working with more disadvantaged, or less advantaged, young people, helping them to become successful either in long-term employment or as entrepreneurs."

"I love investing in young entrepreneurs. I am a big supporter of entrepreneurial hubs and accelerators."

"What I saw in Ed when he came through the doors was a very raw young man, but someone with a lot of potential."

"I invested in Ed Hollands on Dragon’s Den; Ed has the ‘Driven Media’ business, which is a very simple business in the concept of advertising on the side of lorries."

"I think what I am most proud of in my career is that if I look back to when I started work in a bank, counting cash and filling cash machines at 16, I could have never foreseen where my career and business life would go! I could never have guessed that I would end up buying the business, exiting the business, and then becoming a Dragon."

"For the first 12 months, I wondered if I would be able to pay the wages next month"

"In those days, I used to go home at night thinking ‘am I a going concern."

"The business was at death’s door, it had lost its confidence."

"I don’t do this for money."

"Being pretty much the only woman and a woman of colour in my tech career I just had to survive."

"You have just as much a right to pursue this as anybody else. Realise half of the barrier is yourself. Get past your own barriers. Then somebody else blocking your path is nothing compared to that."

"By modelling confident civility. You cannot build innovative organisations if people are afraid to ask awkward questions or express an unpopular view. We’ve allowed disagreement to become personalised."

"After the financial crisis, it was obvious that groupthink was dangerous. Back then, fewer than one in ten UK board seats were held by women."