Operator

Welcome to the Q1 Earnings Call 2026 of q.beyond AG. I would like to welcome the company's CEO, Thies Rixen; and CFO, Nora Wolters, who will guide us through the presentation in a moment, followed by a Q&A session via audio line and chat. And with that, I hand over to you, Mr. Rixen.

Thies Rixen
CEO & Chairman of Management Board

Yes. Thank you, Mara. Hello, everybody. Nora and myself, we'd like to present you the Q1 figures. And before I hand over to Nora, I'd like to give you a little update about the strategy we announced in March, where we are. Little recap. We built this strategy on the foundation of what we already have. So this is very important to say. So we will keep our current model, consult to operate, with consulting and managed service. And build on that, let's say, 3 elements on top.

One is industry focus. So we like to have more vertical expertise in several industries. We play 2 macro trends. One is in health care. There, we will look at the 2,000 hospitals in the region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. And in the energy sector, the 700 local energy providers, Stadtwerke in Germany. So health care, we're all getting older, so we have to transform our health care system. And in energy, the macro trend is everything gets electrified and we need more energy for that.

And also on top of that for