Negotiating and Drafting IT Contracts Training Course: Understand Complexities to Ensure you Draft Watertight Agreements and Manage the Risks Effectively (ONLINE EVENT: July 8th and 15th, 2025) - ResearchAndMarkets.com

The "Negotiating and Drafting IT (Information Technology) Contracts Training Course" training has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This practical and intensive two-day programme will boost your knowledge in these six key areas to ensure you get the deal done with the best terms for your organisation.

All those involved in IT transactions need to understand the trends and industry 'norms'. A tough commercial environment means you need to guarantee you are getting the best terms available and the best deal for your company or clients. This course has been specifically designed to engage both IT suppliers and users of IT to develop their understanding of the structure and content of IT contracts.

Key topics covered include:

• What IT contracts are
• How and why they work
• What should be included
• How to put them in place
• How to overcome the key challenges
• What the IT (separate from the contract) actually means

Certifications:

• CPD: 12 hours for your records
• Certificate of completion

Who Should Attend:

This seminar has been specially designed for representatives from both IT suppliers and users/buyers, including:

• In house lawyers
• Contract managers
• Procurement managers
• Buyers
• IT directors and managers
• Private practice lawyers and IT consultants

Key Topics Covered:

Background to an IT contract (pre-contract preparations)

Part 1: Prevention is better than cure

• Differences in perspectives of IT suppliers and IT customers
• IT contracts words to avoid... and encourage

Part 2: Preparing to negotiate

• IT tendering and procurement
• Managing IT negotiations
• Pre-contract documents
• Interim agreements and pre-contract contracts
• Structure of IT agreements
• Responsibility for technical schedules

Understanding enough IT to work with IT contracts

• Lawyers vs IT consultants
• Computer architecture
• Storage devices
• Software - what is it?
  • Source code vs object code
  • Databases
• Classical networks - what are they?
• The Internet
  • IP Addressing and DNS
  • ASP to Software as a Service (SaaS) to the Cloud
• Virtualisation
• Content and data
  • Analogue v Digital
• Communications
• Encryption
• AI and machine learning
• Future trends

Software Licences

Software

Software licences:

• Background
• Commercial questions
• Goods or Services?
• Express terms:
  • Usual restrictions in software licences
  • Safeguards against those restrictions
  • The effect of the Software Directive
  • Warranties to a standard
  • Date and currency warranties
  • Communicating the licence terms
  • Shrink and web-wrapped software

Maintenance and support adjuncts

Escrow:

• Source code escrow
• SaaS step-in escrow

Etymology of an IT project: group exercise: Part I

• Waterfall commercials - how to negotiate

Etymology of an IT project: group exercise: Part II

• Waterfall software development
• Waterfall development contracts

Software development

• Agile v Waterfall methodologies
• Crowdsourcing and open-source development
• Agile contracts

Software as a Service

• Advantages and disadvantages
• LHA v SaaS agreements
• Customer sensible due diligence
• SaaS agreement:
  • Description of services
  • Right to use
  • Scope of use
  • Price
  • Other clauses

Copyright and database rights - basic principles (Part 1)

• What is copyright? - and important copyright issues
• Use of the symbol
• What are database rights?
• Sources of most disputes
• Copyright enforcement bodies
• FAST and the BSA
• Audit clauses

Copyright and database rights - implications for software activities (Part 2)

• Porting software
• Non-textually copying software
• Software patents
• Moral rights in software and typefaces

Outsourcing and IT services contracts

• Overriding principles
• Structures of IT services agreements
• Defining services
• Defining Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Change control and project/system scope creep
• How are IT suppliers managed?
• Supplier warranties vs customer pushbacks

IT Reseller Agreements

• Software distribution: what does the industry do?
• Sales agents
• Sales representatives
• Resellers
• Contracts

Problems with IT contracts

• Typical disputes in IT projects
• Methods of IT dispute resolution and corresponding clauses
  • Litigation
  • ADR, mediation and arbitration
  • Expert determination
  • Neutral evaluation
  • Ping-pong determination
  • Disclosure issues
  • Software ownership issues: who owns it?

Open source software

• Open source software
• The rise of OSS
• Historical concepts
• The open source definition
• The trajectory of OSS today
• OSS as an industry
• OSS licences

IT warranties and clauses

• Implied terms:
  • Anglo v Winter Brown
  • Quality
• Material, substantial or reasonable?
• Anti-virus clauses
• Date issues and clauses
• Comm issues and clauses
• Currency issues and clauses
• Sizing warranties and scalability issues

For more information about this training visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/fi4jzt

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