Chair
Dr Maria Pozza, Director and Principal Lawyer, Gravity Lawyers
Learning Objectives:
- Identify key legal and contractual issues in procuring software and technology services, including SaaS
- Understand how to manage privacy, cybersecurity, and market engagement risks in technology procurement processes
Description
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Technology Procurement: Key Legal and Contractual Issues When Buying Software and Other Technology
- Legal issues that arise when purchasing SaaS and how to document those arrangements
- How to go to market to procure IT services and solutions
- Privacy and cyber security issues arising in the context of tech procurement
Presented by Campbell Featherstone, Partner, Dentons
Presenters
Campbell Featherstone, Partner, Dentons
Campbell is a partner in Dentons Wellington’s corporate and commercial team. He provides advice on all corporate and commercial matters including procurement projects, privacy, IT agreements (including SaaS, agile and waterfall software development, and traditional licensing), IP licensing and consumer and marketing law compliance. In doing so, he is frequently engaged to assist his clients to draft, negotiate and advise on complex commercial arrangements – often with multiple moving parts. He has significant international experience, having previously worked in the UK and the Middle East before returning to New Zealand in 2018, and advises clients based the world over. As a result, he has been exposed to many different drafting and negotiating styles and strategies.
Dr Maria Pozza, Director and Principal Lawyer, Gravity
Dr Pozza is the Director and Principal lawyer of Gravity Lawyers. Her expertise includes: Commercial international space law, international military space law, domestic legislative frameworks over military and commercial uses in space as well as international law space law dealing with armed conflict and aggressive uses. She provides expertise in legal and technical frameworks concerning cybersecurity and IT, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and technology laws. She has been the course coordinator for the University of Victoria’s Cyber Security and International Relations, as well as a lecturer for the International Relations course. As a prolific publisher, Dr Pozza has edited and published a book on Risk Management in Outer Space Activities – An Australian and New Zealand Perspective, as part of her Book Series titled Space Law and Policy. She has been involved in the development of numerous space law publications that range from academic articles, professional publications, guidance materials, and books. Dr Pozza has supervised at master’s level and is currently supervising at the PhD level with the University of Otago. Her expertise on international and national space law, is often called upon by a wide range of domestic and international clients and institutions.
