Greg Smith
CEO at IP GROUP PLC
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Capital Markets Event 2025 hosted by IP GROUP PLC (LSE: IPO) on Investor Meet Company, held 2025-06-26.

CEO at IP GROUP PLC
CFO at IP GROUP PLC
Managing Partner at IP GROUP PLC
Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Good good afternoon. Welcome to the IP GROUP PLC Capital Markets Day. There are no planned fire drills, if there is a fire alarm, please head out through the fire exits where you'll be greeted by members of the team. That concludes a very short intro, so perhaps if I may, Greg, hand over to you, sir. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mark, as always. Get that noise in the room sorted. Welcome to everybody online. Welcome to everybody in the room. Thank you very much for braving the British summer, which, of course, is the thing that you have to do for Capital Markets Days in the city of London. I have three bits of good news for you today to to to start proceedings. The first is the sun's back out again. So everyone who arrived and got drenched sort of like we did on the way in, the the sun's back out again. The second is you'll know if you're a follower of IP GROUP or hopefully a shareholder of IP GROUP or an adviser. We do a lot of our engagement with the city as part of our six monthly reporting cycle. And for a business like IP GROUP, the the life cycle of many of our businesses is is an awful lot longer than this. And so the opportunity we have today is to look a bit beyond the six, twelve month reporting cycle and think a bit about what's possible, what's gonna drive value over the longer term, what our competitive advantages are over the longer term. So that should be some, you know, something different that you haven't heard for for a while from us. And then the third bit of good news is normally on those events, it's me droning at you for up to an hour and then engaging with questions and all that sort of stuff. The best bit of good news is I'm only doing the first fifteen minutes. And then you get exposure to not ju...