Ajay K. Amlani
Thank you, Matt, and good afternoon, everyone. This quarter marked another step forward in the strategic transformation we began earlier this year. We're building a durable, scalable business grounded in operational rigor, market alignment and differentiated technology. Since February, we've laid the foundation for future growth through deeper customer engagement, enhancements to our industry-leading technology and strategic hires that reinforce our science-forward customer-obsessed approach to go-to-market execution. At the core of our transformation is Aware's deep-rooted expertise and 3 decades of innovation in biometric technology from pioneering fingerprint and facial recognition to leading in passive liveness and multimodal identity platforms. We've consistently earned the trust of some of the world's most security-conscious institutions. Our proven track record across both public and private sectors gives us a unique advantage in today's market where trust, performance and interoperability are paramount. As we've engaged with customers, we have identified new opportunities to be their trusted technology partner in biometrics, helping transform data into actionable intelligence. To meet a growing market need, we've harnessed the power of our core technology and repositioned our product suite as the Awareness platform. This evolution allows us to deploy our capabilities in new and innovative ways, including strategic partnerships with customers and best-in-class providers. The result for customers is greater flexibility to deliver fast, accurate verification to help fight fraud, prove humanity and protect revenue with confidence. In Q2, we achieved best-in-class performance in the Department of Homeland Security's remote identity validation technology demonstration for passive liveness detection. This is one of the most rigorous biometric benchmarks in the world and Aware excelled. Our solution stood out for its strength in combating identity fraud and reducing friction. These results validate not only our evolving technology, but also our ability to meet real-world performance requirements for secure, seamless identity verification in the ever-changing identity fraud landscape. We also received strong third-party validation of our technological prowess. We were recognized as a luminary in core identity technology in the Prism Project's Deepfake and Synthetic Identity Report, an independent evaluation of over 200 organizations. Aware was specifically recognized for standout capabilities in deepfake detection, injection detection and both active and passive liveness, highlighting the depth of our science and the sophistication of our Awareness platform. These validations underscore that we're not just keeping pace with the market, but rather helping shape it. Though continuous -- through continuous product innovation and independent validation, Aware is becoming the trusted biometric infrastructure partner for governments and global enterprises alike. As we outlined last quarter, advancing our core technology remains a central focus for our transformation strategy. In Q2, we continued to focus on our first pillar of transformation to enhance our Awareness platform, our system-agnostic infrastructure that integrates the best-in-class biometric algorithms into a single interoperable, rapidly deployable solution. We improved both facial matching speed and mobile face capture reliability, allowing for a more frictionless user experience. These improvements reflect our science-forward approach, our focus on scalability and our decades of experience. With large commercial enterprises struggling to build this internally, our platform will give the market a plug-and-play biometric security solution that can be deployed in weeks. To support and accelerate this market opportunity, we further strengthened our leadership team. This quarter, we welcomed Lona Therrien as Chief Marketing Officer. With over 15 years of cybersecurity marketing experience, Lona has a proven track record of building high-performing teams, driving demand and strengthening brand visibility. Her leadership at companies like ExtraHop, Cybereason, [ Mime ] reflecting deep industry expertise and a data-driven customer-first approach. Her expertise is already helping amplify our voice and drive stronger engagement across both the enterprise and government sectors. We anticipate that Lona's leadership will be instrumental in increasing brand visibility, accelerating pipeline velocity and generating more consistent marketing sourced demand in the second half of the year. The second pillar of our transformation is continuing to strengthen our go-to-market strategy to scale the business thoughtfully and sustainably. We're executing effectively against our 2025 plan with strong momentum across both the pipeline and our strategic accounts. To improve win rates and accelerate the onboarding of key customers, we're making targeted investments in critical areas. This intentional and disciplined approach to spending is designed to derisk long-cycle opportunities and position us for accelerated revenue growth in the latter half of 2025. The final pillar of our strategy is deepening our strategic partnerships across both the public and commercial sectors. This quarter, we expanded our presence in the federal space by engaging external experts to support our strategic positioning and drive opportunity development within key U.S. government agencies. These efforts are aimed at increasing our visibility and alignment with government priorities, ultimately strengthening our public sector opportunity pipeline. In addition, we expanded our federal footprint internationally. In Q2, we secured national ID programs for 2 Middle Eastern governments. These contracts were secured through a new partner, highlighting the strength of our growing network and customer success team. A key customer secured this quarter was a top 15 global financial institution, marking the continued expansion of Aware in the commercial sector. Our customer-obsessed go-to-market execution is translating into real wins and a growing pipeline of meaningful opportunities across our target markets. We're building real momentum and doing it with customers that understand the strategic value of what we're offering and in particular, the uniqueness of our Awareness platform. With that, I'll turn it over to David for a closer look at our Q2 financials. Over to you, David.