Corning Incorporated. (GLW) Management Presents at Citi's 2020 Global Technology Virtual Conference (Transcript)

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) Citi’s 2020 Global Technology Virtual Conference Transcript September 9, 2020 10:45 AM ET

Executives

Tony Tripeny - Chief Financial Officer
Jeff Evenson - Chief Strategy Officer

Analysts

Asiya Merchant - Citi Research

Asiya Merchant

Good morning, everyone. This is Asiya Merchant from Citi Research. With me today we have Corning, Tony Tripeny, CFO; and Jeff Evenson, who is the Chief Strategy Officer. Welcome, gentlemen.

Before we begin, I just have a few housekeeping items from Citi Research. There are disclosures associated with this for your review. All clients are subject to MiFID II and they’re reminded to have research agreements in place with Citi.

We have a few questions and Tony has a few opening comments. After which we have a few questions that we’ve prepared for the event. However, if investors have any questions during this live stream, please feel free to email me at [e-mail].

So with that, I’ll hand it over to Tony and Jeff for some opening comments from Corning.

Tony Tripeny

All right, Asiya. Thank you very much. It’s great to be here. Just a reminder, the statements made in the course of my presentation today may contain forward-looking information and actual results may differ material -- materially from what we are presenting today.

And of course, we were all confronting profound challenges as a result of COVID-19 and our thoughts are those who are directly affected by the pandemic and the many people fighting it on the front lines.

If you go back and recall during our July earnings call, we noted our expectations for sequential growth based on improved demand and visibility during both June and July. Our industries were flashing green, as Wendell said, but we didn’t provide specific guidance because we were concerned about potential impacts arising from the pandemic, global recession, civil unrest