TOPIC
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) is essential for managing risk and has grown increasingly complex. Drafting and negotiating BC/DR provisions often requires both a precise knowledge of business operations and an awareness of how privacy, cybersecurity and other legal risks and obligations (i.e. force majeure) affect those operations. This panel discussion aims to provide insights into drafting and negotiating effective BC/DR regimes by unpacking common BC/DR risks and how to address them, what planning, testing and implementing BC/DR actually looks like on the ground, and what boards and other stakeholders are looking for when it comes to BC/DR management. Join our panel as they offer practical strategies and tips to manage this increasingly important part of technology contracts.
Lunch will be served at noon and the presentation will run from 12:30-1:30 pm.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Olalekan (Wole) Akinremi is a Partner in the Technology & Intellectual Property and Privacy & Access to Information Practice Groups at WeirFoulds LLP.
Wole’s expertise spans an impressive range of technology and privacy law spheres. He provides invaluable guidance to clients on matters such as artificial intelligence, privacy compliance, robust data security measures, software integration, outsourcing strategies, cloud computing, and IP ownership. Prior to joining WeirFoulds, Wole was a Partner at a boutique law firm that was heavily focused on Intellectual Property Law and Technology Law. At this firm, Wole served as a Co-Chair of the Technology Law Practice Group. Wole also has extensive in-house experience, as he has held roles as legal counsel at a Big Four professional services firm and two Fortune 500 companies.
Beyond his legal practice, Wole frequently speaks on technology, artificial intelligence, and privacy law matters. Recently, Wole was a co-speaker at Osgoode Professional Development’s National Forum on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and the Law for Financial Services; where he spoke about the risks and mitigation strategies related to open-source generative artificial intelligence.
Sharjil Salim is a Partner in KPMG in Canada’s Operations Mergers and Acquisitions practice, leading the Technology M&A services in Canada.
Sharjil specializes in advising clients on the strategic, financial, and operational impacts of Technology within M&A transactions, with a focus on identifying and minimizing risks, as well as creating and maximizing value in IT. Sharjil has over 15 years’ experience advising on over 200 deals, providing commercially focused IT M&A advisory across the deal lens of Digital & AI, Data & Analytics, and Cyber, including Sell-side and Buy-side IT Due Diligence, IT Carve-out/Separations, IT Synergy Assessments, IT Value Creation, and Post-Merger IT Integrations.
Kevin Ellis is Executive Vice President at Thrive, a leading Managed Services Provider. Kevin helps businesses modernize and secure their technology environments by aligning IT strategy with business goals. He specializes in delivering Cybersecurity, Cloud, Networking, and Automation solutions that enhance operational efficiency, safeguard critical assets, and support growth.
COST FOR ATTENDANCE
Cost for attendance: fifteen dollars ($15) for members and students, twenty-five dollars ($25) for non-members, payable at the meeting. Receipts will be available. Cheques should be made payable to the Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group.
REGISTRATION
Please register before noon on Friday, October 3, 2025. Registrations may not be confirmed. Substitutions are permitted anytime. Registrants who do not attend and do not cancel or send a substitute may be invoiced for lunch.
Please e-mail registrations or cancellations to: secretary@tclg.org.
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