BlackBerry Limited (BB) 27th Annual Needham Growth Conference (Transcript)

BlackBerry Limited (NYSE:BB) 27th Annual Needham Growth Conference January 14, 2025 3:45 PM ET

Company Participants

John Giamatteo – CEO
Tim Foote – CFO

Conference Call Participants

Matt Calitri – Needham & Company

Matt Calitri

All right. Well, welcome, everyone. I’m Matt Calitri. I work with Mike Cikos on our infrastructure software research team here. We’re happy to be joined by Blackberry. We’re going to go through a slide presentation here, and then we’ll have opportunity for questions. So please don’t be shy, and we’ll head-off to John and Tim here.

John Giamatteo

Terrific.

Tim Foote

All right, Matt.

John Giamatteo

Thank you, Matt. Thank you all for being here, live in the room and everybody on the livestream coming out. We’re really pleased to be here. Talk a little bit about the progress that we’ve been making at Blackberry. This doesn’t seem to be working. Do I need to point it?

Unidentified Company Representative

There we go. Okay.

John Giamatteo

Okay. I don’t think we’ll read through the whole safe harbor thing, but just know that, there are some things in here that are a little bit forward leading. It’s a great opportunity to come back and talk about the progress that we’ve made with the company over the course of the last year. Myself, John Giamatteo, as a CEO of the company and joined here today with our CFO, Tim Foote. And we’ll share a little bit about the progress that we’ve made and where we’re taking the company in the future. Why (ph) you’re starting to probably see some renewed interest and excitement around some of the momentum that we are making as a company.

Real quickly, five things we think about as it’s a bit of a, from a new year standpoint, five reasons that we believe everybody should