"It's great to come out of the Zoom rooms, start seeing some real people and enjoy being in person at a live event.

"It's really important to familiarise yourself and train yourself to the new emerging way of handling ethical finance, and doing greater things while you deliver the obligations under the corporate governance structure within different financial services institutions."

Niraz Buhari
Director
City and Commercial Insurance Company

"There's no substitute for it. We work with lots of people in Guernsey - quality jurisdiction, great people there. Equally, I wanted to get out and the people we've been working with over screen for a long time, to talk to them in a sort of less formal setting.

"What we've heard from the speakers is that you need to constantly be moving and thinking what your competitors are doing, what your clients are doing, but also how you're deploying your resources and your client's resources and where, and thinking about how the world is changing and how you need to change with it.

"Anything that allows people to mingle a bit and have the opportunity to catch up with as many people as possible and engage on not just the main key topics of the day, which are obviously great and good starting point for conversations, but anything else that is perhaps more specifically tailored to their clients or their areas of the industry that they work in."

Alasdair Wilson
Senior Associate
Harbottle and Lewis

"It's fantastic, I feel London's just buzzing. Everyone is so glad to see people in person. It's really refreshing.

"I really liked the last two speakers on ESG because they made the best of what can be a bit woolly concepts. I'm also quite familiar with it, so I have a personal interest, but I need very practical and tangible examples. They were also young, dynamic and very passionate."

Melanie Griffiths
Head of Client Solutions
Equiom