UL Solutions Inc.

Greetings.

Welcome to the UL Solutions Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Mitchell Gee, Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance. You may begin.

Thank you. Welcome, everyone, to our Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Call. Joining me today are Jenny Scanlon, our chief executive officer, and Ryan Robinson, our chief financial officer. During the discussion today, we will be referring to our earnings presentation, which is available on the investor relations section of our website at ul.com. Our earnings release also available on the IR section of our website. I would like to remind everyone that on today's call, we may discuss forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements may include, among other things, statements about UL Solutions' results of operations and estimates and prospects that involve substantial risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ in a material way from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Please see the disclosure statement on slide two of the earnings presentation as well as the disclaimers in our earnings release concerning forward-looking statements and the risk factors that are described in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ending March 31, 2024. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, except as required by law. Today's presentation also includes references to non-GAAP financial measures. a reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP financial measure can be found in the appendix to the earnings presentation. With that, I will now turn the call over to Jenny.