Ilika plc (IKA) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Good afternoon and welcome to the Illica PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen-only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time via the Q&A tab situated on the right-hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses when it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Graham Purdy, CEO. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Many thanks to everybody for taking the time to dial into Illica's half-year results presentation. So we're going to have a quick trot through the presentation and apologies to those long-term followers of the company who know some of the backstory here. But I will go over some of the basics just to make sure that for any new investors who are joining this presentation, they get the full picture. And then we'll go into a detailed overview of the principal milestones that the company has hit and things to look forward to in the coming period. And then, of course, we're going to tackle some of the interesting questions that are coming in. And I can see there's quite a collection of questions already. So I look forward to addressing those after we finish going through the slides. So let's crack on. First of all, for the avoidance of doubt. Illica is a solid state battery developer and that's what we're going to be talking about over the coming hour or so. We're going to talk about the state of the market and the state of our technology to address that opportunity. We've got two product lines with differen...