Listen up reta.....err, I mean memelords. I know we’ve all moved on from the meme era into the weed era (and hopefully people stick around that one due to the fundamentals for a while, but if not....) and soon to be a redux of the vehicle era, but there’s one meme stonk we need to have a real, honest heart-to-heart about (and hey, it even ties into cars): Let’s talk about Blackberry ($BB)

First, let’s get some misconceptions out of the way:

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Blackberry was never a short squeeze stonk, even though it ended up getting roped in with the other squeezers we were denied squozing because of Wall Street cheating. A lot of people thought it was and that’s simply not the case. Blackberry was, is, and always will be, a phoenix rising from the ashes story, nostalgia peppered with functionality. You know, kind of like how you sometimes go watch some classic porn to beat off to and don’t stop to think about the fact that the actress is now in her 60’s and probably has super saggy tiddies.
Next misconception: It’s not a Boomer mobile phone company. They don’t make phones anymore – phones that are branded with their logos are made by another company that pays licensing for the logo and some of the patents. Blackberry sold all their mobile patents months ago.
Third misconception: No matter how much we ask, they’re never changing their name back to Research in Motion so that we can talk about Rim-jobs. Sorry, just isn’t going to be a thing.
So what are they? It’s simple really: They’re now an enterprise level software security company. When you think about it, it’s not such a big pivot, given that their security encryption in their heyday was so powerful that they ended up having to set up offices in certain nations because it was impossible to crack and ran afoul of certain international laws.

Let’s take a dive into the financials before we get into the story:

At the time of this writing, BB is a 7 billion dollar company with shares trading in the $12.50 range. Even after the meme war collapse, they’re still worth double what they were when the ball dropped in New York City with absolutely nobody watching in person and everybody at home wondering why even Anderson Cooper was using an autotuner. They generate a hair over a quarter billion dollars in revenue each quarter over the last year and in 2020 had a negative EPS of about 32 cents a share as they retooled, though they trimmed that to .23 cents a share for their last quarterly earnings report. They have about a billion dollars in cash on hand and receivables, and they have about half a billion dollars in debt. It’s not a great fiscal outlook there, but it’s certainly manageable for a growth company (which is what they presently are).

Where do they make their money?

Almost half of their revenue is legacy income from selling endpoint management and secure communications licensing. A third of their revenue comes from licensing their patents. Oh, they also own Cylance, for you IT help desk monkeys.
That shit’s pretty boring, not gonna lie. Your wife’s boyfriend might find it interesting, but only because he can use it to laugh at you that you know this shit. But the rest? The rest is where things get interesting. Blackberry Radar is a fleet management solution, and the most interesting thing is....well, for that, we have to go back in time for a moment:

(Wayne’s World flashback/dream noises)….

July 29th, 2017. Las Vegas Nevada. 50,000 of the world’s most feared hackers descend upon Sin City for a weekend of debauchery, drinking, and talking about all the new and interesting ways they found to break shit or in general cause chaos - aka DefCon 25, which was NOT cancelled, contrary to what you might have been told. A young hacker from Wisconsin positively stuns everybody at a panel by revealing how it is that he found he could effectively hack almost every late model vehicle on the road that possessed connected features – from range and while the vehicles are in motion – using.....music theory. It’s an absolutely stunning revelation, something matched only by how terrifying the implications of it are. And all anybody needed was a $300 RF modulation tool. Using this, he found he could take control of every mass produced car on the market except those made by Volkswagen Group and Tesla, and those only because they had randomized frequencies they used. This guy fucked. This process was so dangerous that, for one of the only times in DefCon’s history, they didn’t publish the how-to publicly. Oh, and a team from a then relatively unknown EV company in China called $NIO won the car hacking capture the flag tournament in less dramatic fashion. If you didn't hear about any of this, it's because you were too much of a square to be there. Sucks to be you, chump. Something had to be done.

Enter Blackberry

I’ll spare you all the things that have happened since then, but what you need to know is this: Blackberry came up with a solution to defend against this and a myriad of other problems (not to mention Europoor compliance in the form of ISO 26262) not to mention autonomous security - and their security software suite (QNX) is now on almost every new car rolling off a factory line today. This software is also critical for EV’s, because it controls battery management ECU’s (that’s the shit that makes it so you don’t have to drop 10 grand on a new power plant every 2 years). Or, for those of you with IQ’s of 60: Computer make car gooder.

OK, so that’s cool. But how does this get me TENDIES, man? How much can these guys make?

They’re coy about this and won’t give hard numbers, but there are ways we can estimate what they’re pulling. But to do that, we need to go back in history again, and take a look at a stock nobody cares about

(More Wayne’s World noises)

Enter: Nuance Communications ($NUAN). You’ve probably never heard of these guys, but you and almost everybody you know has used their products at some point. They used to be best known for their Dragon Naturally Speaking software suite, which your grandparents who decided they were too old to figure out how to use a fucking keyboard bought so that they could talk to their computer and send you messages that you hated getting unless it came with a 20 dollar bill, but which they thought you cherished forever. However, at some point around 2010, IBM – whom the Nuance CEO at the time was close friends with the management of, literally just *gave* about 125 patents around voice recognition to Nuance thinking that they were worthless. Nuance took these patents and – for a brief moment – became one of the coolest techs on the planet, because their tech is what made Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, Samsung’s whatever it was called and a billion other voice recognition platforms work. That is, until Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Steve Ballmer, and everybody else Nuance was dumb enough to trust to let look under the hood of their secret sauce came along and all stole the IP to made their own platforms, leaving Nuance rotting in a hole in the desert. But one of the really cool things Nuance expanded into before they went full retard was they bought a couple of companies around 2013 or so– Tweddle and some other company I can’t be bothered to look up – and got into the connected car space. At one point, Nuance’s Dragon Drive virtual assistant was in every new car made by 9 of the world’s top 10 auto makers.

OK, dude, my wife’s boyfriend is asking me to bring him a beer. Can you speed this along? What does this matter?

It matters because we can look at what $NUAN was getting in licensing for putting their virtual assistant in these vehicles, and use that data to extrapolate an estimate of what $BB is getting for their software. With just their 9 car makers at their back, they were generating over 300 million dollars a year – and that was almost a decade ago, and just for something that would tell you where to pick up your Down’s Syndrome medication. Add a premium for security, include all the auto makers, carry the one, smoke a bowl to help you concentrate, adjust for inflation.....
This is a market worth about...oh, roughly 750 million dollars a year for Blackberry on the conservative side once they actually start charging a market rate for this product. Right now, they’re adopting the same go-to strategy Microsoft has been employing with Azure, which is to basically GIVE it away in order to gain market share and penetration, and then send Fat Tony to collect once the car maker is reliant on it. Plus all the other stuff we already glossed over because it’s boring as shit. Applying the average multiple of earnings for cybersecurity firms out there, their lack of competition in the space, etc. And you come up with a market cap valuation target of....oh, roughly between 45 and 50 billion dollars once they’re firing on all cylinders. And they don’t have to worry about Google or Apple throwing 10,000 engineers at this to make a competing product, because it’s just not worth it to them, so they’re largely gonna get left alone.
Or, by using maths....a share price of somewhere in the neighborhood of $87.50. Give or take 10 bucks. Make it 15 to the downside, just to be safe.

Yeah man! Cool. So I’m in. It’s gonna go to that by like, Friday or something?

An enterprise level cybersecurity company with a sub 10 billion dollar valuation is basically unheard of in this century. But this is not a burn play where you’re gonna get 50% gains every day with no work. It’s a company that’s going to have to melt up to that. It still won’t be to that point this time next year.
BUT....that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a great story. It just means that this isn’t something you do a 0DTE YOLO on and expect to get something out of. And making an Avengers meme about it isn’t going to send it to the moon. This is something you buy and stash in a musty corner of your portfolio so you can tell your Boomer parents that you’re being responsible with your investing and you were just joking about betting your inheritance on weekly FD’s for shitty online dating sites where the women have to talk to your sorry ass first. Oh, and it’ll make the lambo you buy with the money from this safer.
Because I know it matters, here are 69 rockets so you apes understand what all this meant.
.....no, there aren't going to be any rockets. I lied.
Disclosures/Positions: I am long $BB, holding 100,000 shares @ $7.67 average and another 5000 January 2022 5c’s.
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TL:DR: $87.50

All my love
-Chad Dickens

Seeing how 80% of my portfolio consists of #BB now, I took the chance to actually get to know their products better (QNX; IVY; CYBER SUITE etc).
Mandatory: 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀
**On January 12th, Blackberry execs (Steve Rai CFO & John Wall - Co-Head, BlackBerry Technology Solutions) presented at the JPMorgan's 19th Annual Tech/Auto Forum Conference.
On January 13th, at market open, we saw the huge first buying spike, pushing BB from 7.44$ to +9$.**
Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_rYmUOcsvQ
Here is the full transcript:
BlackBerry Limited (NYSE:BB) JPMorgan’s 19th Annual Tech/Auto Forum Conference Call January 12, 2021 5:45 PM ET
Company Participants
Steve Rai - CFO
John Wall - Co-Head, BlackBerry Technology Solutions
Conference Call Participants
Samik Chatterjee - JPMorgan
Samik Chatterjee
Hi, good afternoon. I'm Samik Chatterjee, the analyst at JPMorgan here. For the next company at the tech forum, we have the pleasure of hosting BlackBerry. BlackBerry has transformed from a smartphone manufacturer to a leading security-focused enterprise software and services provider. The BlackBerry’s portfolio competes in a number of interesting markets, including cyber security, automotive software and critical event management.
Today, we will be focusing more on BlackBerry's automotive software, which is QNX. It is my pleasure to introduce Steve Rai, BlackBerry's Chief Financial Officer; and John Wall, BlackBerry's Co-Head of BlackBerry Technology Solutions. And thank you both, Steve and John for attending and participating in this conference. Look forward to an interesting discussion.
I will probably just start you off here, Steve, in a sense,* we- before we dive into Q&A for the benefit of investors, reengaging with the BlackBerry story, who probably know BlackBerry from a smartphone days more, can we just start with a high-level overview of the business today?
Steve Rai
Sure.* Thank you, and pleased to be here today. So, while we don't build phones anymore, we absolutely continue to leverage the strong software and security heritage of the company. Our trusted software platform, which we call Spark, can connect, secure and manage every endpoint in the IoT landscape.
So, it leverages next-gen threat protection, intelligent security, and provides a single pane of glass to manage the environment. Further, through AI and machine learning, it continues to get smarter and provides excellent return on investment. So, this area represents a $38 billion and growing addressable market.
Beyond securing enterprises, our solutions also enable critical infrastructure such as securing utilities, automotive safety through QNX, which as John will speak to, and securing people through our AtHoc critical event management solution.
We've got deep credentials which have been hardened in the regulated space. At nearly all of the G20 governments and top 10 global banks as well as the top 9 automotive OEMs, we've got them as customers. Our solutions are equally applicable and provide significant value to enterprises of all sizes.
So, I believe all this and the strong financial position of the company, of course, sets us up very well to serve the markets that we’re in*. And it plays right into the macro trends that we're seeing, including an ever-increasing mobile and work-from-anywhere workforce, rapid IoT proliferation, and an ever-increasing threat landscape, which, of course, the unprecedented cyberattacks of 2020 underscore, and the evolution of vehicles and smart city infrastructure that John Wall will speak to.
Question-and-Answer Session
Q - Samik Chatterjee
So, before I kind of move on to some of the other markets, let's kind of hit on QNX and the inbuilt software offering here. For those who are less familiar with QNX, John, maybe if you can kind of explain what it does, that would be helpful?
John Wall
Absolutely, I'd love to. So, QNX has two, what I would call, foundational products. One is the real-time operating system called Neutrino, and the other is our hypervisor that provides virtualization of CPUs. Both are microkernel-based. These are deeply embedded products that are particularly suited to safety critical applications.
We've been able to reach the highest level of certifications for both those foundational products in the automotive field, medical and industrial. We've achieved ISO 26262 ASIL D and we've achieved 61508 ASIL C and -- ASIL 3, sorry, which is the highest level of safety. And that means that our products are designed for mission-critical. In automotive, in particular, that means our products are designed for things that control steering, braking, anything that controls the vehicle.
So, examples of this within automotive is obviously ADAS, which is active safety, digital cockpit, which is a new trend where we are seeing the consolidation of infotainment systems and other in-cabin functions such as digital cockpits, get consolidated to one hardware module and using our virtualization to separate safety and non-safety systems, the infotainment being non-safety. But also in other markets such as MRI scanners for medical, medical robotics, nuclear power plants, oil and gas. So, if you've ever seen a wind turbine on your travels across various parts of the world, more than likely QNX is running in those systems to control the pitch of the blade, which is very important for keeping the system stable. So, those are just a few examples.
Samik Chatterjee
Got it. John, you did mention kind of the safety aspect becoming one of the key enablers here. Maybe if you can broadly hit on what are the overall trends in autos and kind of where and how are those impacting QNX's addressable market?
John Wall
Absolutely. So, I mean, I think everybody is aware of the macro trends. We have connectivity. Cars are getting more connected. We have electrification and we have automation, so autonomous drive or levels towards autonomous drive. So, what we're seeing within a vehicle is software is starting to play a bigger and bigger role. There are some studies that say that by 2030, 50% of the vehicle's BOM will be electronics, and of that, 30% would be software.
So, what we're seeing as a trend is the car today is made up of a lot of what we call ECUs, and these are electronic control units. And these today are typically single function. So, you can think about it in terms of door locks is an ECU, my transmission controller is an ECU, my digital instrument cluster is an ECU, and so on and so on.
So, what we're starting to see within a car is a consolidation of these ECUs into what we call domain controllers. And domain controllers will handle multiple functions on one module. And these domain controllers are typically high-performance compute platforms. So, when you think of these, you think of Qualcomm, Samsung, NVIDIA, things that would run in your computer or things that would run in your smartphone. And this is a sweet spot for QNX, since the QNX products run on high-performance compute platforms, not on the lower end 8-bit and 16-bit single function ECUs.
Now, as more of these systems migrate to these domain controllers, there's an element of safety that's required because these things are either controlling chassis, they're controlling functions within the vehicle. Outside of the infotainment, most of these modules have a safety function. So, this again is a sweet spot for QNX.
We saw this trend developing four or five years ago, maybe five* or six years ago. We saw that infotainment was moving more and more to Android, but we also saw that the car was moving towards this grouping of domain controllers. And we knew there would be an opportunity to get more in the vehicle, more software sockets within the vehicle. So, we really started focusing our efforts on safety and security knowing that as the car evolves, we have more opportunities within the vehicle to hit many more modules as opposed to just infotainment, for instance.
Samik Chatterjee
Got it. You recently announced BlackBerry IVY, a co-development and co-marketing agreement with AWS. So, how is this different to what QNX is currently doing?
John Wall
Actually, this is quite different from what QNX has been doing traditionally. So, we announced IVY, which is the intelligent vehicle everywhere. So, IVY is a cloud-connected and cross platform that is multi-OS, multi-cloud, in-car software that allows automakers to access a vehicle sensor data in compliance with safety and security requirements to process that data with updatable code to create new vehicle insights and then share those insights with developers through a consistent and simple in-car API mechanism.
So, essentially, what we've done here is we've looked at how do we make vehicles look common from an API perspective? How do we access vehicle data in a way that is consistent from car brand to car brand? This is a very tall order, because vehicles are still pretty bespoke as far as their electrical architectures. No two cars from different OEMs look exactly the same. They use different sensors. They have different architectural layouts.
So, the idea with IVY is to create a middleware, I would say, translator that goes into the vehicle. At the bottom end of IVY, we are talking directly to sensors within the vehicle. But then, we use either machine learning or other processing to normalize that data into what we call synthetic sensors.
And as an example that I'd like to you look at is if you think of a smart city and you think of a smart city that wants to know the conditions of their roads during the winter, a synthetic sensor within a vehicle could be a combination of wheel, speed sensor, antilock brake sensor, temperature sensor and potential camera input. And with those four sensors, you could normalize the data into a synthetic sensor that would allow the smart city to know, do I have an icing condition? Do I have cars slipping in a certain part of my route?
Now, imagine the power of this, if the way to access that data was consistent from carmaker to carmaker. So, the real power behind IVY is to make sure that we grow an ecosystem that allows scale and allows app developers to create common applications, smart cities to access common data across different car brands. And so, the idea here is to ensure that the carmakers have the best ability to monetize their data or to save money by being able to do things like analytics of how their cars are behaving on the road. The idea is to grow an ecosystem that will become a de facto standard in the industry.
Samik Chatterjee
What is the level of commitment that it slightly* brings to this, particularly -- I mean, obviously, I'm guessing investors will be looking at what’s the level of commitment of AWS to this?
John Wall
Right. So, it's a 50-50 joint development. And something I didn't stress enough in the last question, just to be clear, this is OS and cloud agnostic. No dependency on AWS cloud and no dependency on QNX. This is truly a generic piece of middleware to create this ecosystem. So, obviously, we're doing development on QNX. We expect QNX to be the high runner within the vehicle because of our dominant position in the car. I mean, this is part of the reason that AWS is very interested in working with us.
We have a very good pedigree. We're in over 175 million cars. We've been doing this. This is our bread and butter as working within the vehicle. We have exceptional record of delivery. We've never held up a start-up production, and we have very, very strong relationships with the top automakers.
Now, obviously, AWS is a leading cloud provider. They're an unrivaled provider of ML tools. So, they have a lot of the data expertise to do analysis of the data to create these synthetic sensors. And first and foremost, they're a massive company that has the ability to drive an app ecosystem.
From a commitment perspective, it's -- as I mentioned earlier, it's a 50-50 development. This type of a relationship with Amazon is very rare. They do this with customers. They don't typically do this with partners. I think, we have a very, very strong alignment on the direction of IVY with the exact same goals, and that's to drive this ecosystem and to provide an app ecosystem within the vehicle and off the vehicle that is common across OEMs and brands. And I think that is really the thread that binds us.
Samik Chatterjee
If I kind of think back almost like three, four years ago, I do kind of remember some start-up companies, private companies that were trying to harmonize the data across coming from different vehicles. So, are companies already doing this? Why would IVY be different on this front?
John Wall
Yes. That's a great question, and there are lots of companies doing this. This is -- we haven't invented anything new here. Carmakers are very interested in monetizing their data. They know there's a lot of value in their data, especially as the car continues to evolve towards autonomous drive and active safety, lots of sensors within the vehicle, one of the most complex IoT endpoints. So, they know there's a lot of value in their data.
I think, the challenge has been, each carmaker is creating a bespoke solution, and there's really no scale to it. And since there is no scale or very little scale, it creates I think a challenge to really get application developers out there ideating on what the next big thing could be. I think, you'd like to be able to see the ability to leverage the ecosystem from the phone. Lots of people have great ideas out there. And I think the more people that have the ability to access this ecosystem, the more great ideas the carmakers will get.
I think, the other challenge with some of the bigger players in this area has been ownership of the data. So, from -- right from the beginning, BlackBerry and Amazon have made it very clear. We have no desire to own the data and we have no desire to control the data. That's solely in the hands of the OEM. And that's really not an area that we're looking to get involved. The real purpose of this collaboration is to create that de facto ecosystem that will really get the ecosystem out there, developing ideas and applications that are going to be cool for the car.
Samik Chatterjee
So, I have like almost 15 questions here, and since I have 15 minutes remaining, let me start tackling some of them. So, let me start with the ones that relate to IVY. A couple of similar ones. What do you think the TAM is that IVY will open up for carmakers? And on similar lines, there is a question which is -- give me one -- yes, when do you intend to provide tangible color around the commercial opportunity that IVY represents? So, I'll let you guys tackle those two together.
John Wall
Steve, do you want to take that?
Steve Rai
Yes, I'll start. So, the first vehicles to have IVY are expected to come out in 2023. So naturally, leading up to that time, we expect to be engaged with the OEMs and potentially with Tier 1, Tier 2 suppliers working on this and generating professional services revenues along the way. We're targeting a subscription or usage-based model, in other words, building a recurring revenue stream. And so, that's sort of the time frame I think to address that part of the theme.
Samik Chatterjee
Two follow-up questions on IVY and more related to automakers. So, again, I'll just combine them for everyone's benefit here. Is BlackBerry QNX or IVY going to be in the new vehicles that NVIDIA and NIO will be working on together? The second question on similar lines is IVY something Tesla will consider?
John Wall
Yes. Those are great questions. Obviously, I think, everybody -- I think, most people know we have a very strong relationship with NVIDIA as we announced a few years ago that QNX is the foundational OS of their DRIVE OS offering. I don't know that we can make any comments at the moment about specific OEMs as we made the announcement on December 1st. What I can say is the reaction by OEMs to the announcement has been overwhelming. We've already had a workshop with one OEM prior to Christmas.
So, there is a lot of excitement about the ability to create this ecosystem. When people think about the ecosystem in the past, they've thought about, well, the carmakers are going to have to get together, they're going to have to create a kind of a unified architecture for the vehicles to be able to create this ecosystem. Try to think of it kind of in terms of iOS or Android -- not iOS or Android, but something like that, but that's appropriate to the automobile. This is kind of really taking -- this is really looking to take a shortcut and really create that app ecosystem before the car makers have had the ability to necessarily unify their architectures.
To the point of Tesla, Tesla could definitely be a customer of this.
Samik Chatterjee
Okay. Is it possible to implement back into the captive market of 175 million QNX current users? So, I'm guessing they are -- it's asking about IVY. So, is it -- yes, so is it possible to implement IVY back into the captive market of QNX users?
John Wall
Absolutely. I mean that’s -- in a lot of cases, that's the intent. There are very few carmakers that we are not working with, especially today when we look at our move towards more of safety software within more modules within the vehicle, especially when it comes to ADAS, autonomous drive, chassis control, digital cockpit. We're very dominant in the digital cockpit market. So, I believe that, that's obviously going to be the case, but I also think it's going to open up new customers. And I mean, that's a very strong reason why we made this OS independent and cloud agnostic is we wanted to address our current customers, but we also wanted to address carmakers that are not our customers that are running different operating systems or have different architectures or have different cloud solutions. We wanted this to go to our existing customers and to open up new customers.
Samik Chatterjee
Got it. A ton of new questions on QNX, but before I get to that, one question that came in is the patents for sale, which kind of coincides with a news release, I think I saw saying that BlackBerry’s selling to 90 patents to Huawei. And I'll just give you an opportunity to answer that question as well as comment in terms of anything that's been announced recently.
Steve Rai
So, if that question is referring to what has been in the press in terms of some of the broader rumors about the portfolio, I'm not going to comment on those rumors. Regarding Huawei, there was a very small number of patents that are no longer relevant to the business. So, small sale, not part of our recurring transaction. And certainly, it was permitted under the applicable rules. So that's it.
Samik Chatterjee
So, moving to QNX, let me take this one. Could you outline the content per vehicle opportunity for QNX on an EV and separately on AV? And if you don't want to give dollar per car, could you suggest the number of QNX RTOS, I apologize, I don't know the acronym and hypervisor installs for EV and AV versus internal combustion engine vehicles. So, essentially, I think, in a nutshell content for vehicle for QNX on EV and AV separately?
John Wall
Yes. I don't know that I really look at them all that separately. One has a battery manager, one has an engine controller. I think -- so I'll try to answer it more generally speaking, and then I will make a comment to EVs. So, generally speaking, the ability for QNX to be used in more places within the vehicle is what drove our decision to focus on safety.
Traditionally, if you look back at where QNX was playing in automotive 10 years ago, the opportunity was typically a telematics box, an OnStar or an infotainment unit. And at the time, we were very dominant in infotainment and in telematics. If you -- so you kind of add two potential sockets there that we were fighting for, and for the most reason, those were the most -- those were the two high-performance compute platforms with telematics box and the infotainment box. I think as we see this consolidation of ECU to domain controllers, the opportunity has gone up dramatically. You have domain controllers that are handling gateway. So, you have a gateway functionality within the vehicle, you can do that almost like a router, that's going to manage safety systems and non-safety systems within the vehicle, the different buses. You have chassis controllers, you have ADAS controllers, you autonomous drive controllers. You have the digital cockpit, which is probably the first consolidation that's been happening within the vehicle, where we're taking cabin functions such as digital instrument cluster and infotainment and merging that onto one high-performance compute platform, using our hypervisor.
So, I think, without actually throwing out numbers, as far as the dollar amount, from an opportunity within the vehicle, there is definitely going from 2 or 3 opportunities to 5 or 6 or 7 opportunities within the vehicle. To us with IVY is just one more, a different function.
Now, having said that, from an EV perspective, I think we put a status during earnings before Christmas that I believe we're in 19 of 25 of the top EV producers and that we have a 61% market share of working with EV customers. And one of the reasons that EV is interesting is in a lot of cases, it's clean sheet. They're starting with new architectures, and they're able to move to these new domain controller type architectures more quickly.
Samik Chatterjee
Is Automotive Grade Linux a strong competitive threat? Who is the most significant competitive threat in terms of the auto ecosystem? And how is QNX superior to these over time?
John Wall
Right. So, I would say that we have two groupings of competitors. We have the traditional under-the-hood safety-based operating systems. And those are Green Hills and Wind River. Green Hills is very well-known in aerospace and defense, and so is Wind River. I think, we've been quite successful against those two.
And then, on the other side of the spectrum coming more from consumer side and coming more from high-performance compute platform, you have Linux in all forms, whether it's AGL or Ubuntu or something else. It doesn't really matter.
Now, the advantage that QNX has over Linux is that those Linux distributions are not safety certified. Safety certification is a lot of work. It's very hard to achieve. It's especially hard to achieve when you look at a product like Linux that -- part of the beauty of Linux as it moves very fast, and it's contributed to by the community. But that's also -- it's Achilles’ heel when it comes to safety because safety requires due diligence around safety cases, design, knowing the providence of where the software came from, a lot of testing, a lot of impact analysis.
So I mean, our view is we take all the competition seriously. And we're just trying to continue to push our product forward to be better performance and a higher level of safety against all our competitors. And we believe that will help keep us in the lead.
Samik Chatterjee
In the couple of minutes we have remaining, let's take a couple of questions on IVY here. First question, and I’ll again kind of club them together. How will the IVY app store ecosystem be monetized? And then, a second question, can you talk about the dollar investment and the time investment, how are you splitting that as it relates to development of IVY?
John Wall
I'll answer the second piece first. As I mentioned earlier, it's a 50-50 investment by both, Amazon and BlackBerry. It's a significant investment. But, we're not providing any numbers. But, there is a significant investment in doing this.
As far as monetizing from the OEMs and the app store and how that's going to look, we're just starting to have those conversations with the OEMs. I don't know that we have a clear picture on this. Based on the discussions we've had with the OEMS, we know there's a lot of value there. And the idea of providing a more comprehensive and more standardized SDK and API across car brands is only going to make that more valuable. But, we haven't gotten into all the nuts and bolts of what this is going to look like, except that we know that the OEM is going to control the data, and it's going to control the access to the data.
*Samik Chatterjee * Okay. Last one, let me squeeze this one in. Where do you see the biggest catalyst for your loyal shareholders?
*Steve Rai * Well, I think, the trends that I spoke to in my opening comments are really what position -- all of the Company's technology, the way that it's come together and the drivers that we have play in very directly to these trends, and the trends being proliferation of IoT, security, all of the concepts that John described in the auto sector as well as the general embedded space. And those are things that the Company is just ideally suited for in terms of the expertise and the solutions that we have.
Samik Chatterjee
Great. That's all we have time for. Steve and John, thank you both for taking the time to attend the conference. And it was a pleasure hosting you and great discussion. Thank you.
Steve Rai
Thank you, Samik.
John Wall
Thank you very much.
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Filming on February's Pokémon Direct began 2 days ago(Jan. 13th 2021) with Masuda reaching The Pokémon Company.

The content of the video is being finalized just as we speak in this initial "Talk" phase, mostly due the fact that by June, more or less, there will be another Direct/Presents with another list of announcements so they are basically deciding now if something will be revealed/shown at the start of the year or later in time.
(Note - When this was written 2 Days ago, meanwhile few important things happened. - The recent New Pokémon Snap trailer doesn't mean that they are going to shatter the entire idea of Pokémon Direct into small single videos to present the new titles. New Pokémon Snap was already announced before so it's not strange if they decide to not focus the Direct on this specific title)
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Now let's talk about the listed Topics :
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• New Pokémon SNAP

Due to the imminent release date, this could be only mentioned during the Direct.
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• Detective Pikachu 2

The game will be vastly improved from the previous title and I'm not only talking about graphics.They cured the game mechanics specifically to get the best response possible from the fans.

• Pokémon Unite

This title is under its final 3rd Testing Period right now and will be soon released as well.Based on the decisions this game may see the light by the end of March or even before!
(Unless they decide to expand the testings internationally. In that case 1 or 2 extra months are a must - April/May. We must see how this evolves).
Either way expect official updates regarding Unite between Jan. 29th / Feb. 6th, whether they are going to release it right away or announce an extra international test field.

• Pokémon Sleep

This was promised for a 2020 release but they never talked about the title for a very long time now. I don't know anything about this apk. They will reveal more about Sleep alongside other small announcements, so it could happen now (Before the Direct) or middle-year with another Pokémon Presents during June. (And that would make sense)

• 25th Anniversary Trailer + Music Event
• Cards Promotion
• General Products Promotion

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• Remake Reveal

This is rare to happen during the Direct. The current "Talk Period" is mostly because of this.
I always thought that the Remakes would be revealed separately in their own specific trailer, but they are actually planning something or at least they are considering the possibility an early reveal.
That's basically all they have on the table right now.
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I haven't finished yet of course, I waited this specific day to talk about all these infos because of the Direct Filming Schedule and only in order to get extra stuff to share with you all, otherwise I could have only shared the above section.
I hate to say this but.. the reason why CentroPokémon basicly confirmed Remakes during the Direct is because they're discussing about the possibility of an early reveal, as I said.
Centro probably have someone who confirmed to them the ongoing discussions, they got excited and dropped the news right away. I do have a source by myself by the way, a talkative one apparently.
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Finally here some awaited details!

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• Cards Promotion

This could strangely be a topic of the Direct if they plan to promote the newly announced "First Partner Pack" considering that the Binder will be released February 26th.
Maybe just a mention who knows. But this is not what I wanted to talk about.
The news on the cards doesn't stop here. This mini collection, divided into the various months of the year, will include only 2 of the 3 special sets focused on the 25th Anniversary.

1. Jumbo Starter Card Set
Each "First Partner Pack" will include 3 Jumbo Starter Cards + 2 Booster Packs from recent expansions, the Binder will be a Special Jumbo Binder to store 30ish giant cards.
The thing you don't know is that they are also discussing the idea of selling a peculiar "First Partner Pack" with the Jumbo Pikachu Card alone but with 3 Booster Packs instead of 2 to compensate the price and it's probably gonna happen since they were sure about this promo.
2. An unrevealed Mac Donald Mini Set
This set will as well includes the Starters from various Generations.
3. An unrevealed TCG Set
To be released later this year, likely after October 8th 2021.

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• 25th Anniversary Trailer + Music Event

Universal Music Group (UMG) will promote the 25th Pokémon Anniversary dropping an album called "P25 Music" with collaborations of big artists like Katy Perry.
Not only that, UMG draws on the contribution of some of the most important names in the world music scene, from emerging artists to well known superstars.
One of the main collaborations is with Katy Perry and she was chosen as the ambassador for this initial promotion & collaboration also because she herself is one of the artist from the UMG record label and she genuinely loves Pokémon as constantly shown in the past, so she was perfect for this role.
The other Artists are from UMG Labels as well and they will all be featured in an actual Music Program Event created just for the Pokémon 25th Anniversary!
This Music Program is called "Legends" and will have a dedicated website that will be revealed in the near future and will be constantly updated with all the participating Artists as well as the Program Events. You will be surprised by the love Pokémon is putting into this Music Celebration and in general in this Anniversary.
This is "just" one of the numerous projects of #Pokemon25, prepare because 2021 is gonna be huge.

I have seen some people wondering if among the chosen singers there will also be K-Pop groups. Unfortunately i don't think K-Pop artists have been included so far, but never say never.
Given the interest and popularity they are having all over the world it cannot be ruled out that some negotiations are not underway.
Just in case it happens, here is the list of K-Pop artists that may end up collaborating with Pokémon:
Apink, Ateez, Blackpink, BTS, Everglow, IU, Iz*One, Jeon So-mi, Momoland, Monsta X, Red Velvet, Super Junior, Twice, TXT.

By the way!
Katy Perry x Pokémon Lead Track of the Album is called "Electric".
I don't know what type of MV they decided for "Electric" but there is a high possibility that they could show some type of merchandise in the actual MV through Katy's appearance.
As far as I know some Pokémon themed backpacks are on the way. (Not from Adidas, this time it might be Levi's but I'm not sure.)
One last important thing.
The "P25 Music" Album will feature a 40+ minutes long Playlist, with 11 Different Tracks including "Electric" by Katy Perry and It will be released October 16th 2021.
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• General Products Promotion

Other than that. There will be more Pokémon Accessories in the near future such as:

Super detailed Big Pokémon Plushes
Small Action Figures/Plushes
Food related Products
Skateboards (Already presented)
School related Products (The mentioned backpacks as well as handbooks)
Toys, in particular construction based toys similar to Legos
New POPs for your pleasure
New variety of Clothes (I'm expecting jackets after last year shirts)
New Switch themed Controllers
PokéBall(s) Replica with sensing-function and led lights (All in metal)
CD Playlist with all the songs from the Album "P25 Music"

(Some of these products may be available right after the Direct, for example the PokéBalls).
That's all the major stuff we are getting during this Year.
There is even more to be decided/planned regarding merchandise but I can't really tell you what is it about exactly, but looking at the list I wrote I don't really know what else to expect... except that it will be good for sure.
I think this lack of information on these specific products is due the fact that these unknown items are linked to the Remakes and they plan to release them at the end of the year as promotion for the games. So there's no need for Pokémon to unveil the mysteries right away at the start of the year.
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• New Pokémon Snap

Due to the recent shadow drop trailer I got the chance to know some details regarding this title.
The Lental Region is a very small unspoiled Island full of Pokémon from across the world.
The Professor will send us there to explore the various Islands and examine the Illumina phenomenon. (There are 8+ Main Areas).
Gameplay is divided in 2 (or maybe 3) depending on how you look at it.

Set gameplay during the Island Tour (The actual Gameplay of taking pictures and Picking up Items) or Free gameplay at the Lab/Camp with Prof. Mirror & Rita where you can interact with few menus and do small actions outside of just taking pictures.
The third one is linked to the Set gameplay, because on particular occasions the player will be required to face some Illumina Pokémon in a sort of battle treated as a mini-gameplay by itself.

Mushrooms, Berries, Crystals, Rare Plants & Flowers , as well as a new variety of Fruits called "Fluffy Apples" (The one seen in the trailer) are all Items we can interact with.
You can throw these new Lentil Region Fuits to Pokémon to get their attention and feed them.

There is more than 1 way of taking photos, but I'm not sure if this is just a change of the Camera Objective/Zoom Feature or it is done through a brand new Item other than the Camera.
Maybe the first one, but anyway this different shooting method is more effective when it comes to bring out and capture the facial expressions of wild Pokémon.
Also, you may hide or suddenly appear from the sky thanks to the NEO-ONE vehicle creating new and relevant scenarios in order to obtain rare photos.
There is more than 1 way of tracking Pokémon in the wild. Normally you can just see them, but with the Joycon rumble function you can also feel the Steps/Noises from all around you.
Most importantly hearing sounds will play an important role especially when it comes to Illumina Phenomenon.

Pokémon in New Snap aren't casual set models.
Each Pokémon has different spawn interactions that change every time you begin the Island Tour.
You could see Pokémon wandering alone, living in groups of the same species to make territories or Pokémon of different species walking & playing together.
In addition to all this, every Pokémon has different facial expressions every time you encounter them.
The Illumina Phenomenon is linked to Plants and Pokémon of course, but the Light itself is important too for better understanding this unusual game feature.
(Illumina can be treated in an extreme sense as new forms like Shadow Pokémon. On one hand they can be considered Forms capable of altering the appearance and shape of some Pokémon, on the other hand they aren't officially recognized and will never be introduced in main serie games, exactly like the Shadow Pokémon. It's just a New Snap feature to make the game more appealing and it's destined to remain so.)
They are deciding what to include in a possible future Bundle for this game, meanwhile the game could be sold with an initial promotion exclusively for pre-orders that will give one of these items for free: Photo Collection, Big Poster, Notebook, Key Chain or Stickers.
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• Pokémon Unite

Few more things I want to say about this apk. Today more footages have been leaked revealing the implementation of Skins. Let's talk about actual stuff real quick for the more curious.
The Skins are divided into Rarity, you heard that. Each one brings specific upgrades to the Main Champion we are using (With Champion I'm referring to the Pokémon for those less accustomed to the language of MOBA) and will be unlocked based on your TieRank.
These upgrades are:

Costume Change
New Model/Texture/Picture
Depending on what you get, New Animations/Visual Effects/Sound Effects
For advanced upgrades they will also include Additional Voice Processing
At the top there will be a brand new Concept of the Champion (And here we are talking about drastic changes).

All these Skin Upgrades are under testing for what regards the Combat Style of the Champion and the Effectiveness of the Moves. This will change the gameplay by a lot, for a more colorful and enjoyable battle system.
Status are part of the game but we will only have: Burn/Poison for Cheap dmg, Asleep/Freeze working like a Paralysis.
STATS are part of the game and we can divide them into 5 categories:

Attack, the raw power of the Champion
Defense, how tanky the Champion is
Mobility, how fast the Champion can moves
Scoring, how fast the Champion can store points. (Relevant to the gameplay)
Support, how great the Champion is when it comes to Support (Of course)

All the Champions specialize in one or more of these 5 STATS and each one of the Stats can be calculated with ranges from 1 to 10 more or less.In general each Pokémon reaches Total STATS of 24/25.
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• Remakes

Whether or not they are shown during the Direct, it will initially be through a very small video of few seconds and only in the future they will release a proper dedicated Trailer to the cause, probably at the beginning of July.
So whatever you are thinking, nothing major will drop these first months related to the Remakes.
If they clear their mind and decide to do so, then just expect the logo names/box arts or something cheesy like that.
In the past I shared a picture mentioning DD & DP and finally I can end this once and for all.
I don't know the names yet, I posted that in particular to bait other rumors online since in that period Remake Rumors were starting to spread more frequently. You can't say that I was wrong at the end. Plenty or rumors talked about Dusk/Dawn or Dyna or Dimension. I'm not talking about people discussions, I'm referring to actual fakers online who is making fun of us every single day. (If you want in the comment section I'll explain this all situation better, so you don't start saying that I'm sharing bshit or that I'm taking back what I said in the past for no actual reason).
Right now I don't know the names.
Do you want me to invent random names to make you happy or to actually explain why I did that?
Well good things for you, don't trust any rumors that uses those initials. You're welcome.
BUT-I can tell you something about the names for sure. (Again check the comments because I don't wanna make this any longer).
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Hold on, I don't wanna end all this without the most important thing.
I am happy to tell you that the Remakes are set to be released November 19th 2021.
This date is not gonna change whatsoever.
(If something major occurs, the only thing they could do is to anticipate the date by exactly a week, but this scenario is unlikely to happen and it would be strange AF to anticipate the date instead of postponing it, so yea. I'm telling you right now).

Remakes will be released Nov. 19th! Have a great year!

Updated 02-14-21 - Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions/AITX Key Points/DD - highlighting growth potential - 2021 and beyond:
02-12-21 PR News: Momentum for Products Accelerates - AITX/RAD Receives Multiple Orders

• AITX announces adding 2 new dealers to their global dealer network, NexGen Security Solutions based in Ontario, Canada, and Servexo Protective Services based in Gardena, California. (More dealers means AITX technology will now be offered to more clients, the result: an increased pipeline).
  
• AITX announced 11 new orders for devices, with up to 9 more orders for Wally HSO units in current negotiations. (for each device there is an initial device deployment fee and each device will begin generating recurring monthly revenue)
  
• AITX added 4 new independent sales consultants. (these contracted sales professionals will drive even greater acceleration and adoption of AITX/RAD technologies)
  
• AITX President states, "it appears likely that this will be the best order intake month in RAD’s history..There remain several significant opportunities that I expect we will close this month"
  

(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210212005118/en/Robotic-Assistance-Devices-Indicates-that-Momentum-for-Products-Accelerates---Receives-Multiple-Orders)
 
1 - AITX is an international technology company that is offering artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced software and hardware technologies to revolutionize and disrupt the 128 billion dollar global security industry. (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/) (https://radroameo.com/)
AITX currently has about 30+ employees distributed across offices in the USA and Canada, with plans to grow to approx 50-60 employees by year end 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6IXHyZ291U). AITX currently has an approximately 696 million dollar market cap. (https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/AITX/profile)
 
2 - AI is emerging tech, currently a 40 billion dollar industry, that is projected to grow at a 40% compound annual growth rate; that's a $1.1 trillion market by 2030. (https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/artificial-intelligence-ai-marke) The AI sector still has huge room for growth and AITX is positioning itself to capitalize in this new, rapid-growth market.
 
3 - AITX currently offers 4 software applications and 6 hardware devices for mobile and stationary security solutions that combine lower security costs with enhanced security features (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/solutions/). These devices are ever-vigilant, always-aware, non-corruptible, and non-discriminatory. AITX’s security technologies are replacing expensive manpower, that is largely doing nothing, with sophisticated technologies that can do a lot, at a far lower cost.
 
4 - AITX designs, creates, engineers, and develops all solutions in-house; from point A to point Z, AITX controls the entire supply chain. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6IXHyZ291U)
 
5 - AITX recently filed its latest quarterly report showing that AITX is entering a stage of high-growth, demonstrating significant signs of positive company results. Quarter over quarter:

• Accounts receivable more than doubled
  
• Total company debts/liabilities decreased by approx 24%
  
• Gross profit more than doubled
  
• Cash on hand increased by approx 35%
  
• Total company assets increased by approx 40%
  
• Revenues increased by 60%
  

(https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=14624922&guid=ngBKUWRpjODiDth) (https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=14443369&guid=ngBKUWRpjODiDth) (https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/AITX/overview)
 
6 - AITX currently has dealership agreements in place with 15-20 security companies worldwide for device and applications deployment, including agreements with 2 of the largest security companies in the world, Allied Universal and Securitas AB (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/clients-dealers-partners/). AITX is continually adding new dealers and expanding its potential customer base, most recently announcing the addition of four new dealers to the AITX dealer network: Protos Security, Civitas Group, NexGen Security Solutions, and Servexo Protective Services. (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/robotic-assistance-devices-announces-dealer-agreement-with-protos-security/) (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/robotic-assistance-devices-announces-dealer-agreement-with-civitas-group/) (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210212005118/en/Robotic-Assistance-Devices-Indicates-that-Momentum-for-Products-Accelerates---Receives-Multiple-Orders)
 
7 - Allied Universal is AITX’s largest dealer by sales orders. Allied Universal will soon be the largest security company in the world. AITX President Steve Reinharz recently shared on social media that “Allied loves ROAMEO” (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/799094992001564682) ROAMEO is AITX’s recently developed, high-tech, autonomous mobile security device; high interest from Allied in ROAMEO could translate into significant future deployments and significant increase in revenues (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/roameo/). Further elaborating on Allied Universal’s relationship with AITX, Steve also has stated, “it’s pretty exciting when the world’s largest security company is a fan, and I’m really grateful to them for that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly29Sq0R4KY).
 
8 - The recent quarterly report also shed some light further on the great demand for AITX’s ROAMEO device, it states:

• “The Company received pre-order letters of intent from dealers and end users for 76 ROAMEO units that represents approximately $320,000 in monthly recurring revenue. The Company is working to turn these pre-orders into firm orders with an expectation that conversions could begin in the first quarter of the new fiscal year ended February 28, 2022. It is expected that ROAMEO production ramp-up time will take at least two quarters during fiscal 2022 to fulfill converted pre-orders.with backlog of orders representing $16 million of revenue, already with letters of intent (LOI).”

This would represent approx $19 million of revenue over the 5-year ROAMEO contract life-span.
This is a significant increase from the previously released figure of $16 million in ROAMEO pre-orders, suggesting that the orders keep rolling in for ROAMEOs. (https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=14624922&guid=KNBKU62ZL28guth) (https://radroameo.com/)
 
9 - AITX technologies are versatile and offer significant benefits and potential savings to multiple industries, and the company has begun to see the adoption of its solutions in multiple verticals. AITX technologies have already been deployed in the Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Transportation, Logistics, Construction, Automotive, Real Estate, Food Retail, and Film industries (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/press-release/).
 
10 - AITX devices and applications are currently being offered in 3 countries worldwide - USA, Canada, and Romania - with plans for continued global expansion. (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/clients-dealers-partners/) (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/robotic-assistance-devices-announces-dealer-agreement-with-civitas-group/)
 
11 - AITX technologies are currently deployed in 15 states - including some of the most populated states in the USA like California, Texas, New York, and New Jersey. (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/804548471687217164)
 
12 - AITX has multiple Fortune 500 companies in the sales funnel, and as current clients; most recently announcing a multi-unit order from a non-disclosed Fortune 500 customer. (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/robotic-assistance-devices-announces-that-previously-anticipated-large-order-is-in-hand) (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/robotic-assistance-devices-large-opportunity-on-the-immediate-horizon/)
 
13 - Adding to the device orders as detailed at the top of this page, previously in 2021, AITX has PR’d the orders for 11 additional devices, further representing a significant increase in recurring monthly revenues:

• 5 devices ordered by undisclosed Fortune 500 client (new client, while not officially disclosed yet by the company, this client is very likely CVS as revealed by photos posted on AITX President Steve Reinharz's twitter page: https://twitter.com/SteveReinharz)
• 2 devices ordered by undisclosed construction company (repeat client)
• 2 devices ordered by Civitas Group (new dealer)
• 1 device ordered by undisclosed logistics company client (repeat client)
• 1 device ordered by Protos Security (new dealer) (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/press-release/)

 
14 - Demand for AITX technologies is so great AITX President Steve Reinharz recently had to increase his order for device supply materials from 60 shells up to 70 shells. (https://twitter.com/SteveReinharz/status/1351890188520198145)
AND then he received even more orders and had to order 15 more shells bringing the total to 85 shells. (https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveReinharz/status/1359101917343879168)
 
15 - AITX is the parent company, currently consisting of its 2 subsidiaries:

• 1: Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD), that focuses on the manufacture and deployment of stationary devices, and
  
• 2: Robotic Assistance Devices Mobile (RAD-M), that focuses on the manufacture and deployment of mobile devices (https://aitx.ai/)
  

 
16 - AITX will be launching a 3rd subsidiary in 2021 - staffing has begun and further details will be revealed this year. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6IXHyZ291U)
 
17 - Due to increased demand and sales of stationary devices - AITX recently expanded production capability and opened a new assembly facility in Irvine, CA. (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/robotic-assistance-devices-announces-growth-upgrades-two-locations/)
 
18 - Due to increased demand and sales of mobile devices - AITX recently opened a new office in Waterloo, Canada, that is 3x larger than the previous office and has a 10k square foot outdoor mobility technology testing yard. (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/robotic-assistance-devices-announces-growth-upgrades-two-locations/)
 
19 - By efficiently streamlining their supply chain while expanding their production capacity, AITX has recently achieved decreased lead times, by as much as nearly 40%. This will help dealers and customers be able to more quickly receive and implement AITX solutions into their projects and enterprises. AITX President Steve Reinharz has stated that starting in March, AITX’s 2 most popular devices, AVA and ROSA, will now be available to be ordered via a Quick Ship option that will see the devices shipped within 72 hours of order. (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/robotic-assistance-devices-announces-72-hour-shipment-on-some-products/)
 
20 - Research and development and innovation are constantly ongoing at AITX - focus is on developing solutions driven by customer demand. In the most recent Q&A with shareholders AITX President Steve Reinharz stated that there will be one new hardware device revealed and two new software solutions revealed in 2021. (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/788559778598092820)
 
21 - AITX is US reporting: Full SEC reporting; it is very rare to find full SEC reporting companies in microcaps and OTC Pinks markets - the fact that AITX is full SEC reporting demonstrates the company’s commitment to full shareholder transparency. (https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/AITX/profile).
 
22 - AITX President Steve Reinharz is committed to making himself accessible and available to AITX shareholders and the investor community at large. He has stated that he feels that his second mission, as AITX expands, is to work to expand the AITX investor base and increase the exposure and raise the profile of AITX in the investor community (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWEB9srh7OE). He frequently makes himself available on the AITX discord chat (https://discord.gg/99jJAc9), engages with investors on twitter (https://twitter.com/SteveReinharz), and has regularly scheduled once-a-month Q&A’s with shareholders on the discord chat. His efforts have had impactful results, with Steve’s twitter followers now numbering ~ 8850, the number of followers on the AITX page on stocktwits.com now numbers ~ 25,600 !! (https://stocktwits.com/symbol/AITX), and just in the past 3 weeks almost 60 AITX focused Youtube videos have been created, where in the previous months there were only a handful. (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=AITX&sp=CAI%253D)
 
23 - Old toxic convertible debt has been renegotiated into non-toxic, non-convertible debt as of December 15, 2020 (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/artificial-intelligence-technology-solutions-restructures-convertible-debt/). AITX President Steve Reinharz has stated “no toxic debt ever again”. (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/799395141928484907)
 
24 - Steve has definitively stated that there is no plan for a reverse split, and since toxic loans have been renegotiated, and the market cap of the company has soared, there is no, and will be no need for a future reverse split. (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/793663595505647658)
 
25 - AITX President Steve Reinharz has publicly set very ambitious uplisting goals for the company. He has stated that in 2021 AITX will uplist to the OTC QB tier of the OTC Markets. Uplisting to the OTC QB tier will give investors more confidence in the transparency of the company and broaden the appeal of AITX. In the next few years, he has stated the company will set its sights on uplisting to the NASDAQ, a goal he states he thinks could be achievable in the next 3-4 years. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWEB9srh7OE)
 
26 - AITX President Steve Reinharz has stated that with continued growth and increased revenues, the company plans to consolidate AITX stationary and mobile facilities, by opening and moving all manufacturing to a multi-acre, multi-building compound in Michigan sometime in calendar year 2022, or 2023. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6IXHyZ291U)
 
27 - Here’s a list of upcoming catalysts and recent notable events that could have significant positive impact for AITX in 2021:

• see most recent PR news at top of this page
  
• Tomorrow, February 15th, national paid advertising for AITX/RAD will be released, the beginning of national advertising in 2021 (https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveReinharz/status/1354391646008295424)
  
• AITX President Steve Reinharz was recently selected as a finalist in the Orange County Business Journal’s Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award. This recognition by the business community in Orange County, California helps to showcase Steve's vision and hard work while also helping to drawing attention to and increase brand awareness for AITX/RAD. (https://roboticassistancedevices.com/steve-reinharz-nominated-as-a-finalist-for-the-ocbj-2021-excellence-in-entrepreneurship-award/)
  
• This past week influential Youtuber - the Traveling Trader - released a video titled "THE TEN BEST PENNY STOCKS TO BUY NOW FOR FEBRUARY 2021" - in the video he includes AITX in his top ten list and highlights AITX as having "home-run potential". The Traveling Trader goes on and acknowledges that the sector is young and states he "would be excited to get in early on this stock" - the Traveling Trader currently has 140,000 subscribers, and this video will potentially introduce AITX to a new, very large investor community. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qirX5Mm1dJs)
  
• The weekend previous AITX President Steve Reinharz recorded an interview with a high profile Youtuber named Jayconomics (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe3ca8oVHrJunXUDEECY5qw). Jayconomics has over 36,000 subscribers to his channel. This interview was released on Sunday and this should also introduce AITX to a whole new, very large investor community. The interview also included newly released ROSA demo footage. (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/805228184269750312)
  
• Steve has stated he expects the annual report, the 10-K, to be "really good" and he wants to share it with investors ASAP, he is working to expedite the 10-K and it should be filed within 60 days of the end of the fiscal year Feb 28. This target time would place the filing on approximately April 29th (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/801246650566967307)
  
• In most recent Q&A Steve has stated that the uplist to OTC QB is likely to be complete by end of Q2, that timing would be sometime in August approximately
  
• Steve confirmed in recent Q&A that one new hardware solution and two new software solutions with be debuted in 2021.
  
• Announcement of the third AITX subsidiary is likely to be made this year. (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/800380466133598228)
  
• A “massive” public marketing campaign for ROAMEO that will include demonstration videos, will be launched later this year. (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/800522284396969995)
  
• Steve has hinted that an impactful tweet will be released at the end of February (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/803628892271149066)
  
• Brand new AITX solution, code named “Project G”, could possibly be revealed later this year. (https://discord.com/channels/666673916898574359/726826023349387374/792016439003185152)
  

 
28 - Check out this excellent multi-part Youtube interview with AITX President Steve Reinharz, where he lays out his background, the obstacles he has overcome with AITX, current company developments, and his plans and vision for AITX's future:

• #1 of 6 part video series on Duh Media Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQKWtlxEWnY&t=3s

 
29 - This list is not meant to be investment advice, it is not meant to tell you what to do, make your own decisions, do your own research and due diligence, read the PRs and see the potential for yourself:

• See amazing AITX DD compiled here: https://www.reddit.com/AITX/comments/l39h90/aitx_dd_information_must_read/ (shoutout to u/Awkward-Box-8220 & discord user clyde, amazing work!)
  
• see all 6 devices and applications at https://roboticassistancedevices.com/
  
• see AITX website at http://aitx.ai/
  
• follow AITX President Steve Reinharz: https://twitter.com/SteveReinharz?s=20
  
• join the public discord for DD or chat about AITX with other investors: https://discord.gg/99jJAc9
  
• check out AITX stocktwits page: https://stocktwits.com/symbol/AITX