Innovation in action

01:00:01:04 - 01:00:22:05

Ryan McCormack (Invesco QQQ)

It's a little surprising at times when you take a step back and look at all the devices in your home that are connected to the Internet. The ability of what we can do with these devices is now unfathomable compared to ten or 20 years ago. And ultimately, it all sort of comes back to the driving force behind a lot of these components, and that would be semiconductors.

01:00:26:19 - 01:00:46:05

Ryan McCormack (Invesco QQQ)

What is QQQ? An excellent question. We like to joke here that it belongs on the Mount Rushmore of ETFs, because there's not many that can say that they have a 20-year live track record. What I find exciting is Invesco QQQ is empowering investors to become agents of innovation, across industries, across companies that are shaping the way that they live their daily lives.

01:00:46:11 - 01:00:52:00

Ryan McCormack (Invesco QQQ)

QQQ is very different in that it's based on a rock-solid partnership with Nasdaq.

01:00:52:00 - 01:01:14:23

Karen Snow (Nasdaq)

The Nasdaq-100 is home to the biggest and most disruptive companies in tech. Semiconductors are really the brains behind all of the computing and innovation that we see across every sector. So they're really the heart of all of that innovation. I would say Microchip, KLA and Honeywell are all leaders as it relates to the semiconductor industry.

01:01:15:01 - 01:01:25:09

Vimal Kapur (Honeywell)

I don't think two decades back we had any electronics in our homes in form of semiconductor or in our cars. And today I'm not aware of any product where there’s no semiconductor.

01:01:25:15 - 01:01:45:05

Mark Shirey (KLA)

The end use of computer chips is so varied these days. You have huge data centers, you're managing our social networks and everything we do online. You have things like autonomous driving, electrification and increasing chip content in cars. You have smartphones, wearables.

01:01:45:09 - 01:02:07:12

Ganesh Moorthy (Microchip)

In the early years, making it smaller meant you were able to make it less expensive. You were able to get higher performance. Today, it's more important to also think about what kind of functionality can you pack into it, so that you can have a single chip or a small set of chips that are able to provide the type of functionality, the type of innovation you need without only thinking about performance and power.

01:02:07:22 - 01:02:27:14

Vimal Kapur (Honeywell)

Let's think of a phone we all used, from around 2005. Essentially, you could make a call on a little screen, but if you flip 15 years down the line, you won't even recognize that the phone looked like that. So, what has changed? It’s semiconductor because it gives much more optionality on what you can do with the compute power along with the software, the combination of that.

01:02:27:23 - 01:02:32:21

Ganesh Moorthy (Microchip)

And I think that's what semiconductors do and what Microchip products do. It's empowering that innovation.

01:02:33:13 - 01:02:41:22

Ryan McCormack (Invesco QQQ)

We say they're innovative because they really commit to long-term development of the various themes, right. They’re deep rooted in research and development.

01:02:42:04 - 01:02:57:19

Karen Snow (Nasdaq)

So, I don't think of this semiconductor industry in a linear way. I think of it very much as an ecosystem. And each one of the players contributing to that ecosystem. For Honeywell, for example, that can be in their approach to building and industrial automation.

01:02:58:08 - 01:03:19:13

Vimal Kapur (Honeywell)

If you see the buildings today versus how they looked many years back, you have face recognition as a primary means to recognize people and make them navigate through the office building or having new sensors for air quality — behind which is the semiconductor, which is enabling that technology. Across the board, semiconductors have impacted every segment in the last 5 to 10 years’ time.

01:03:19:18 - 01:03:43:04

Ganesh Moorthy (Microchip)

We make microchips. How about that, we’re done. What Microchip products do is make those products, through the innovation our customers do, into things that can be better or faster or less expensive. More features. Many of our customers are those who build circuit boards, which use semiconductors. Often they are selling to someone else who is assembling that into a system.

01:03:43:04 - 01:04:02:16

Ganesh Moorthy (Microchip)

And that system is being sold to an end consumer. You know, there's a part of what semiconductors have been doing on a consistent basis. Every year you bring out more functions, more features. The area of medical technology is one in which semiconductors have increasingly had more and more and more impact in terms of better outcomes that you have.

01:04:02:19 - 01:04:16:16

Ganesh Moorthy (Microchip)

Whether that is better outcomes in hospitals, where the big types of machinery are used for ultrasound and scanning and various other things, to all the things that are in the doctor's office, to what you do at home. All of those different things require semiconductors.

01:04:17:13 - 01:04:57:21

Mark Shirey (KLA)

What KLA and inspection and metrology brings is very high sensitivity inspection tools to detect tiny anomalies in the pattern, tiny pattern defects, tiny particles, all of which would kill a semiconductor chip. And that could mean one less smartphone can be delivered because that chip didn't work. As our customers shrink their devices, they introduce new materials, new processes. Every 12 to 24 months, we have upgrade our tools to serve those challenges. So it's really just continuous improvement and innovation to keep up with the semiconductor advancements.

01:04:58:05 - 01:05:20:10

Ryan McCormack (Invesco QQQ)

I think if you go four, five, ten, 20 years ago and asked, you know, where are we going to be? I mean, people can't really fathom the capabilities that we have at our fingertips. But, you know, ultimately, I think it's going to be driven by our desire as a society to be better connected. It's sort of, you know, one of these things where if you want to think big, then sometimes you need to start small.

01:05:23:20 - 01:05:33:07

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00:00:00:01 – 00:00:36:25

Ryan McCormack (Invesco QQQ)

Most companies now had to shift their mindset when it comes to cybersecurity. This isn't just having an antivirus program on your mainframe computer. With all these different interconnected parts, all being able to access the Internet, those are all new access points where somebody can access your network.

The story of QQQ is one of innovation. Invesco QQQ is different from most other ETFs in that it directly tracks the Nasdaq-100.

00:00:37:00 – 00:01:02:00

Emily Spurling (Nasdaq)

The Nasdaq-100 is comprised of the top 100 non-financial companies listed on Nasdaq — companies with a legacy of innovation. Nasdaq thinks about cybersecurity as a horizontal technology that transcends industries.

Cybersecurity challenges that we face today present the opportunity to push the envelope of innovation. Some of the leaders that come to mind are CrowdStrike, Zscaler and Fortinet, as well as many others.

00:01:02:14 – 00:01:08:21

Kavitha Mariappan (Zscaler)

We help people stay safe and continue to be able to innovate, whether it's for work or play.

00:01:09:00 – 00:01:15:19

Michael Sentonas (CrowdStrike)

Cybersecurity today is not a nice to have. It's a necessity for every organization around the world, for every person around the world.

00:01:15:22 – 00:01:23:23

John Maddison (Fortinet)

Cybersecurity is a very dynamic industry. A lot of different technologies which we need to bring to bear to help our customers secure their future.

00:01:24:10 – 00:01:46:00

Kavitha Mariappan (Zscaler)

What Zscaler does is we really are about zero trust security. We look at protecting every organization and user that accesses information on the Internet to securely and safely do their best work. We manage over 270 billion transactions over the Internet daily, as well as block over 100 million threats daily.

00:01:46:05 – 00:02:11:16

Michael Sentonas (CrowdStrike)

If we look at the amount of breaches that hit the press, it's only getting more challenging for organizations. And it's something that I'm really proud of: the work that CrowdStrike has done and continues to do.

We built a company back in 2011. Our focus was to not use legacy approaches to stopping cyber attacks, and we've really focused on building advanced AI algorithms.

00:02:12:00 – 00:02:50:05
John Maddison (Fortinet)

Well, I think Fortinet, what we do is take a very pragmatic view of how fast customers are going and where they're going. We don't think customers are going to one particular specific domain to provide security. It won't be a cloud-only world, it won’t be an on-premise only world, it won't be a data center-only world.

And my analogy there is it used to have a camera, an MP3 player, maybe an alarm clock. Well, they put it all together and converged it into one iPhone. So you've taken multiple products and made it one, which is much more effective from an ROI perspective or cost. It'll be a mix and a hybrid of all those technologies to make sure you can protect everything inside the company.

00:02:50:15 – 00:03:05:15

Michael Sentonas (CrowdStrike)

If you look at the way that we use technology, we really have been building technology around the world to allow us to work from anywhere. The concept of remote work is not a new one. People have been trying to build capability to allow employees to connect and be productive from anywhere.

00:03:06:00 – 00:03:13:20

Kavitha Mariappan (Zscaler)

So much of our life’s actions and business today happens digitally. It is also available out there for threat actors to violate.

00:03:14:00 – 00:03:30:00

John Maddison (Fortinet)

If we go back 20 years ago, there was a big focus on antivirus over laptops because the data was there, and the cybercriminals were trying to get the data from there. And then the data started spreading into the data center and across the network, so then network security vendors became really important.

00:03:30:06 – 00:03:39:05

Kavitha Mariappan (Zscaler)

We're talking about a revolution, about how people needed to rethink, how security needed to look at securing all their core assets and processes.

00:03:39:07 – 00:03:57:09

Michael Sentonas (CrowdStrike)

There's been a lot of shift in cyber attacks in the last ten years. The complexity, the volume, the targeted victims, the amount of money that's being made.

Ten years ago, people would talk about $500 or $1,000 being made by the cyber attackers. Today we talk about $5 million, $10 million attacks.

00:03:57:20 – 00:04:11:12

John Maddison (Fortinet)

Today's companies, they rely on the infrastructure. A lot of those companies can be completely halted if they apply some ransomware or encrypt a controller, which could bring down the whole factory. The company could be losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day.

00:04:12:00 – 00:04:31:16

Michael Sentonas (CrowdStrike)

We provide cybersecurity services, threat intelligence and solutions to stop breaches, and we provide those capabilities to organizations around the world. We use a cloud-based architecture, so wherever a user is, wherever their machines are connecting to, you can connect to them, you can secure them, you can get full visibility.

00:04:31:17 – 00:04:54:17

Kavitha Mariappan (Zscaler)

I think it’s an interesting time to be solving these problems, right? Artificial intelligence and machine learning, being able to analyze a multitude of data, to be able to infer signals and solve very interesting problems. As we look at 5G, as we look at the multitude of devices that are out there, whether, you know, we're looking at IoT or OT, there are going to be so many interesting areas of innovation.

00:04:55:00 – 00:05:24:00

John Maddison (Fortinet)

From Fortinet's perspective, we feel customers will never go down one track. They will be very hybrid for a long time, if not forever. And then security needs to make sure and accommodate that strategy and the customer. Some things will be in the cloud, some things will be provided by the cloud, some things will be on-premise, some things will be in agents.

And so we need to make sure that whatever the customer does with this infrastructure, and its data, and its people, and its users, we can follow and protect that.

00:05:24:02 – 00:05:28:02

Michael Sentonas (CrowdStrike)

Our mission is simply put, we stop breaches. That's what we do for our customers.

00:05:28:15 – 00:05:40:20

Kavitha Mariappan (Zscaler)

The way we think about it is continuing to co-develop and innovate with our customers, but always being there ahead of our customers so that we can deliver the right innovations for them before they need it.

00:05:41:00 – 00:05:52:09

John Maddison (Fortinet)

I think some of the most enjoyable moments are when I'm talking to customers and they explain to me how our technology has helped them drive their business forward, but at the same time protect them.

00:05:52:15 – 00:05:56:22

Emily Spurling (Nasdaq)

The innovation we see at these cybersecurity companies help all companies broadly.

00:05:57:00 – 00:06:05:08

Ryan McCormack (Invesco QQQ)

As technology continues to evolve, the need for cybersecurity solutions, new cybersecurity solutions will likely evolve alongside it.

00:06:09:00 – 00:06:17:01

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Only three of 101 underlying Invesco QQQ ETF fund holdings are featured. Participation is meant to help illustrate representative innovation themes, not serve as a recommendation of individual securities. As of 10/02/23, CrowdStrike Holdings Inc Class A made up .33%, Fortinet Inc. made up .39%, and Zscaler Inc made up .20% of Invesco QQQ.

As of 10/02/23 Invesco QQQ top ten holdings are: Apple Inc. 10.87%, Microsoft Corporation 9.56%, Amazon.com Inc. 5.34%, NVIDIA Corporation 4.24%, Meta Platforms Inc Class A 3.82%, Tesla Inc. 3.19%, Alphabet Inc. Class A 3.18%, Alphabet Inc. Class C 3.14%, Broadcom Inc. 2.96% and Costco Wholesale Corporation 2.17%. Holdings are subject to change and should not be considered buy/sell recommendations. See invesco.com for current holdings.

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The internet of things (IoT) is a network of interrelated devices embedded with technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet.

Operational technology (OT) is technology that monitors and controls specific devices and processes within industrial workflows.

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