This panel session will examine legal nuances when promoting innovation and collaboration whilst at the same time safeguarding proprietary information

- Indemnification: Best practice for incorporating trade secret clauses
- Internal training: How to emphasis training, reporting and enhanced ethical behaviours
- Successfully establish a risk mitigation framework when collaborating with another party and ensuring reasonable measures are taken to protect your trade secret.

DLP software detects potential data breaches/data exfiltration transmissions and prevents them by monitoring, detecting and blocking sensitive data

- How DLP tools work, capabilities, drawbacks, and costs.
- Can DLP tools form part of the reasonable steps that the company takes to protect its trade secrets
- Examine the intersection between DLP tools and legal arguments for future litigation scenarios

As companies continuously face threats to trade secrets leakage, there is growing recognition that protecting these valuable assets requires a collaborative approach. By uniting a cross disciplinary teams within an organization and ensure that trade secret protection is integrated into every aspect of the business—from legal and technical to operational and strategic levels.

- Understand the key roles and responsibilities of different departments (legal, cybersecurity, HR, R&D, leadership) in trade secret protection.
- Learn how to create an effective cross-functional working group to collaborate on trade secret initiatives.
- Discover strategies for building organizational alignment and fostering cooperation between legal and technical teams.
- Learn how to integrate trade secret protection into everyday business operations and company culture.

One of the biggest hurdles facing the Data Act’s implementation lies in finding the right balance between free access to data and protection of the trade secrets of manufacturers or data holders

- How the viewing data as trade secret?
- Examine trade secret provisions.
- How is this interpreted.
- How are other interpreted.
- What kinds of provisions
- How to trade secret data? Can raw data be a trade secret?

Protecting Trade Secrets: Iron-Clad Strategies for Employee Onboarding and Offboarding

Onboarding Strategies:
- Creating clear communication of the company’s trade secret policies and the legal implications of breaches.
- Design mandatory training sessions focused on data security and confidentiality.
- Drafting confidentiality agreements that reinforce the employee’s commitment to protecting sensitive information.

Offboarding Strategies:
- How to effective exit interview to solidify departing employee of their confidentiality obligations.
- Determine when and best approach for revoking access to all company systems and retrieving company-issued devices.
- How to ensure the return or destruction of any physical or digital copies of sensitive information.
- Continuous monitoring the former employee’s activities post-departure to detect any potential data breaches.

Legal Considerations and Enforcement:
- Discuss consequences of trade secret violations in employment contracts and company policies.
- How to take swift and decisive action against any breaches

- Different rationale on whether you can log trade secret IP?
• Differences in industries?
• How companies operate that may provide different rationale
- What variables are available to track their trade secret?
- How their industries operate,
- Examine examples of cost/benefits of trade secret tracking
- How to effectively mark, catalogue trade secret – to avoid litigation
• What tools and controls are available.
• How many categories do you use?
- How do you define different sensitivity issue and audits.