Navigating Tariffs Risks: A Strategic Roadmap for Business Resilience
Join YSpace and BDO for a session on Navigating Tariff Risks: A Strategic Roadmap for Business Resilience
As global trade dynamics continue to shift, Canadian companies must prepare for new and evolving tariff risks heading into 2025. Whether you’re a software startup or a hardware/manufacturing-based company, understanding how these changes could impact your operations is more important than ever.
This session, led by Jackson Lai from BDO, will give you insights to identify your company’s exposure, reduce risks, and plan ahead using practical strategies and government support programs.
What You’ll Learn:
Why tariff risk matters now — and what’s ahead in 2025
Strategic operational and tax planning for risk reduction
Scenario planning for varying levels of company exposure
Action timelines to help you stay ahead
Government programs, funding, and available assistance
Key takeaways to support long-term business resilience
About the Speaker
Dr. Jackson Lai, Partner, BDO Canada
Dr. Jackson Lai helps technology companies grow by maximizing the value of their intellectual property and R&D efforts. As a Partner at BDO, he advises clients on innovation strategy, funding opportunities, and tax relief programs.
With a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and over 15 years of experience in product development, Dr. Lai has worked across sectors including biomedical devices, life sciences, IT infrastructure, and consumer electronics—contributing to the shipment of over 20 million units globally.
He holds 18+ patents, has authored 20+ journal publications, and remains active in both industry and academia.
About YSpace
YSpace is York University’s pan-university entrepreneurship and innovation hub supporting startups and entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors and communities. Our programming spans across scaling innovative technologies through customer and investor capital to scaling agri-food businesses into mass retail to diversity-focused initiatives like ELLA for women-led businesses and in partnership with Black Entrepreneurship Alliance (BEA) for Black-led businesses. We are also home to two physical hubs in the City of Markham and the Town of Georgina.