I am still in the process of digesting our 2019 Visions, Insights & Perspectives (VIP) Europe conference, which took place on 20 and 21 February in Amsterdam. I was very pleased to have co-hosted the event with my colleagues Geoffrey Dohrmann and Jonathan Schein, to have learnt so much in such a short space of time, met some new faces, and caught up with some familiar ones. I was also immensely proud that the gathering was held in the Dutch capital, as it happens to be my home town.