Hello and welcome to the annual general and special meeting of shareholders of BTQ Technologies Corp. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. If you participate in today's meeting and disclose personal information, you will be deemed to consent to the recording, transfer, and use of the same. If you disclose personal information of another person in today's meeting, you will be deemed to represent and warrant to Computershare and the company that you first obtained all required consents for the disclosure, recording, transfer, and use of such personal information from all appropriate persons before your disclosure. During the meeting, we will have a question and answer session, and you can submit questions or comments at any time by clicking on the Q&A tab. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Lonny Wong, Chief Financial Officer of the company, who will chair today's meeting. Lonny, the floor is yours. Good morning. I am Lonny Wong, Chief Financial Officer of the company, and I would like to welcome all of you to the annual general and special meeting of the shareholders of the company. The meeting will now come to order. I will ask Mathieu Gauthier, the Head of Corporate Development of the company, to act as secretary of this meeting, and Teresa Kwan of Computershare, the company's Registrar and Transfer Agent, to act as scrutineer to report on the holders of common shares present in person or by proxy at this meeting. As we have determined to hold the meeting virtually, it is being hosted today on the Computershare virtual shareholder meeting platform. Holding the meeting in this manner allows all registered shareholders or their proxy holders, regardless of their geographic location, the opportunity to attend and participate in the meeting, and to vote and to submit questions and comments to be read and addressed at the meeting. If you have a question or comment, please submit it through the system now and we will answer at the appropriate time. As this meeting is held via live webcast, we think it is necessary to set out a few rules for the orderly conduct of the meeting via live webcast. These are as follows. Questions can be submitted using the Q&A icon located on the top of your screen. Please follow the instructions in the virtual platform. Questions related to a motion can only be submitted by a registered shareholder or duly appointed proxy holder. When reading out a question on a motion, we will note the name of the shareholder or proxy holder submitting the question. Following the formal part of the meeting and management's presentation, there will be a Q&A session where all shareholders and proxy holders are welcome to ask questions. To deal with all questions in a timely fashion, questions of a similar nature will be answered once. If we are unable to address your question during the meeting due to time constraints, please reach out to us after the meeting at investors@btq.tech. Voting on all matters will be conducted by electronic ballot. To allow sufficient time for voting, the polls will be open at the beginning of the meeting. I remind you that only registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders who have properly logged in with their control numbers or invite code will be asked to vote on each business item and be able to see motions being brought forth at this meeting on their screens. If you are a registered shareholder and you have already voted by proxy, you do not need to vote again unless you wish to change your vote. To ensure everyone has the maximum time to submit their votes, the poll for all matters of business will be open now. If you plan to vote at the meeting, you must vote on each resolution before the ballot is closed. To vote, please click on your choice for, or withhold, or against, as applicable. A confirmation message will appear to show your vote has been received. To change your vote, simply change your selection before the ballot is closed. The vote you have submitted on each polling item at the time the poll closes will be recorded. Votes in favor or against or withheld, as the case may be, for each resolution item will be tallied by the scrutineer once the voting is completed, and I will report on the outcome of all motions at the end of the meeting. The notice calling this meeting has been mailed to all the shareholders of the company, the company's auditors, and the company's reporting jurisdictions. I direct that a copy of the notice with proof of mailing be annexed to the minutes of this meeting as a schedule. I will now call upon the scrutineer to present her report as to attendance. The scrutineer's report shows a quorum to be present. With adequate notice having been given and quorum present, I declare this meeting to be properly constituted for the transaction of business. I direct that the formal report of the scrutineer be annexed to the minutes of this meeting as a schedule. I now present to the meeting these financial statements of the company for the year ended December 31st, 2025, together with the auditor's report thereon. The next item of business is the approval of the number of directors. I now propose a resolution approving the number of directors to be set at five, as described in the information circular. For those of you who have not yet cast your votes on this resolution, please do so now. We will provide registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders approximately one more minute to complete their electronic ballot. Once the electronic balloting closes, the voting items icons will disappear. The voting is now closed. I declare the resolution carried. As set forth in the information circular, management of the company nominates Olivier Roussy Newton, Christopher Tam, Philippe Lucet, Nasser Al-Thawaidi, and Lionel de Saint Exupéry as directors of the company for the ensuing year or until their successors are elected or appointed. I move for a resolution for the election of Olivier Roussy Newton, Christopher Tam, Philippe Lucet, Nasser Al-Thawaidi, and Lionel de Saint Exupéry as directors of the company for the ensuing year or until their successors are elected or appointed. For those of you who have not yet cast your votes on this resolution, please do so now. We will provide registered holders and duly appointed proxy holders approximately one more minute to complete their electronic ballot. Once electronic balloting closes, the voting icons will disappear. Voting is now closed. I declare the resolution carried. I declare that Olivier Roussy Newton, Christopher Tam, Philippe Lucet, Nasser Al-Thawaidi, and Lionel de Saint Exupéry have been duly elected as directors of the company to hold office for the ensuing year or until our successors are elected or appointed. The next item of business is the appointment of auditors. It is proposed that MNP LLP will be appointed as auditor of the company for the ensuing year. I move for a resolution appointing MNP LLP as the company's auditor for the ensuing year at a remuneration to be determined by the board of directors. For those of you who have not yet cast your votes on this resolution, please do so now. We will provide registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders approximately one more minute to complete the electronic ballot. Once the electronic balloting closes, the voting icons will disappear. Voting is now closed. I declare the resolution carried. The company is also seeking reapproval of shareholders for the Omnibus Plan. I move for a resolution for the reapproval of the company's Omnibus Plan, the full text of which is set out in the information circular available under the company's profile on SEDAR+. For those who have not yet cast your votes on this resolution, please do so now. We will provide registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders approximately one more minute to complete their electronic ballot. Once electronic balloting closes, the voting icons will disappear. Voting is now closed. I declare the resolution carried. This concludes the formal business, and I declare that the formal part of the meeting is now terminated. We now open the floor to a question and answer session from shareholders. Mathieu, I'm assuming there's no questions from any shareholders at this point. No questions at this point. Correct. Okay. In closing, thank you for your continued interest and support of BTQ. We appreciate your participation today. In addition, shareholders are always welcome to ask questions by emailing our investor relations department at investors@btq.tech. This concludes the meeting. You may now disconnect.
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