Jenoptik AG

Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Jähn Optik conference call regarding the results of the first half year 2026. The conference will be recorded. At this time, all participants have been placed in a listen-only mode. The floor will be open for questions following the presentation. Let me now turn the floor over to your host, Dr. Prisca Havranek.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our call on the results for the first half year 2026. As in the past, I will lead you through the presentation and then Andreas, our head of investor relations and I will be open to your questions. But before we go into detail here, I would like to hand over to our new CEO, Dominik Dorfner.

Thank you, Prisca, and good morning to everyone. I'm very pleased to introduce myself to our investors and analysts on the occasion of our first year results release now that I've been officially on board since August 1st. I've already had the chance to meet many Genoptik colleagues at several different sites and even different continents over the past weeks, and I have gained some first good impressions of Genoptik. What I saw during the first interactions impressed me. Firstly, I saw great people, highly dedicated to their business as well as highly motivated. So for me, that represents a strong basis. Secondly, I saw strong technologies. In optics competencies, for example, in optics are just impressive. And so is its ability to turn science or physics into solutions that truly add value to our customers. And finally, I'm personally convinced that there is a great relevance of photonics for many industries we serve and its importance may even accelerate in the future. Or maybe in more simple terms, I'm convinced that photonics is an attractive industry with a lot of growth potential. So for me as a physicist, joining Genoptik is a dream. For me as a manager, it means potential and ambition. So what ultimately drives me is finding out what is possible, shaping and building the courage and this is what we are striving towards together as the INOPTIC team. As I said earlier, I already had the chance meeting and talking to many people in the company and for the next few weeks my focus will be on listening, getting to know even more people, customers and to understand all of our business in full. Finally, I'd like to to comment on a matter that has been mentioned in the news in the recent weeks or even months. You might know that we are currently undergoing some sort of a strategy process update which is in full swing already and we expect the UNOPTIC Executive Board to be in a position to communicate key findings and outcomes towards the end of the year at the earliest. So please bear with me and my colleagues that we may not be able to answer questions relating to that matter in the very near future. Thanks to you and I'll now hand back to Prisca for the H1 results and also later the Q&A session. Thank you.