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

corporate participants

John Giammatteo – Chief Executive Officer
Tim Ford – Chief Financial Officer

conference call participants

Matt Calitri – Needham & Company

Matt Calitri

OK Well, everyone is welcome. I’m Matt Calitri. I work with Mike Cikos on our infrastructure software research team. We’re excited to have BlackBerry on board. We’re going to have a slide presentation here and then we’ll have an opportunity to ask questions. So don’t be shy, we’re going to head over here to John and Tim.

John Giammatteo

amazing.

Tim Foote

Okay, Matt.

John Giammatteo

Thank you, Matt. Thank you all for being here, live in the room, and thank you to everyone on the air. We are very happy to be here. Let’s talk about our progress at BlackBerry. This doesn’t seem to work. Need my advice?

Unidentified company representative

Let’s get started. OK

John Giammatteo

OK I don’t think we’re going to read through the whole safe harbor thing, but you know, there are some things here that are a little forward-thinking. This is a great opportunity to come back and talk about our progress with the company over the past year. Myself, John Giamatteo, as the CEO of the company, I’m here today with our Chief Financial Officer, Tim Foote. We’ll share a little bit about the progress we’ve made and where our company is heading in the future. Why (ph) you might start to have a renewed interest and excitement about some of the momentum that we’re creating as a company.

Quickly, we’ll be thinking about five things to do as we put it into perspective in the new year, and five reasons why we think everyone should be doing this