Operator
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Ocean Power Technologies First Quarter Fiscal Year 2021 Conference Call. A webcast of this call is also available on the company's website at www.oceanpowertechnologies.com. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded and will be available for replay after its completion. On the call today are George Kirby, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Matthew Shafer, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. [Operator Instructions] On September 14, 2020, OPT issued its earnings press release and filed its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2020, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All OPT public filings are available on the SEC website at sec.gov or in the Investor Relations section of the OPT website. Please note that management's prepared remarks may contain forward-looking statements that are within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are intended by -- identified by certain words or phrases such as may, will, aim, will likely result, believe, expect, will continue, anticipate, estimate, intend, plan, contemplate, seek to, future, objective, goal, project, should, will pursue and similar expressions or variations of such expressions. These forward-looking statements are based on assumptions made by management regarding future circumstances over which the company may have little or no control and involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, among others, the following: future financial performance, expected cash flow, ability to reduce cost and improve operational efficiencies, revenue growth and increased sales volume, success in key markets, competition, ability to enter in relationships with partners and other third parties, delivery and deployment of PowerBuoys, increasing the power output of PowerBuoys, expected cost of PowerBuoy's product, hiring new key employees and building customer relationships. Please refer to our most recent Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the SEC for further discussion of these risks and uncertainties. We disclaim any obligation or intend to update the forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances discussed in this call. Now I am pleased to introduce Mr. George Kirby.