Together with ADCS president Alison O'Sullivan,and Ofsted's new director of social care, Eleanor Schooling, he is speaking about the proposals at this week's National Children and Adult Services conference.
"If Alex's mother had answered the door, we wouldn't be speaking about this now," Gambardella said.
He was speaking about this week's mayoral election, which he was favored to win, but he could have been describing the city's battle over education.
They used to be called the Daisy Chain and they'd been speaking about this Jesus and Mary Chain idea for ages.
He has been speaking about this often during the campaign (for example, see 8.46am), but his remarks to the FPA went further.
"One of the reasons I have not been speaking about this is that I wanted to be acting rather than speaking and talking to a lot of people in this region".
"But these guys will be speaking about this cricket day for three months," said Arun Krishnan, an Indian who works in information technology and one of SmartLife's founders.
I usually do informal surveys when I'm speaking about this topic, and I'll say, "Raise your hand if you have a sense of that".
Gorbachev laughs: "I'm speaking about this crisis.
For me, the thing is, it blew me away that members of [the British] Parliament were speaking about this.
Tan will also be speaking about this project next week at an event called Wearable Futures. .
