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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Foundations: Navigating the EU AI Act for Technical Teams

  • Identifying key obligations and terminology relevant to developers and operators
  • Interpreting prohibited practices under Article 4 from a technical standpoint
  • Aligning legal mandates with concrete engineering controls

Building a Secure and Compliant Development Lifecycle

  • Structuring repositories and implementing policy-as-code for AI initiatives
  • Enforcing code reviews and automated static checks to detect risky patterns
  • Managing dependencies and the supply chain for model components

Designing CI/CD Pipelines with Compliance in Mind

  • Defining pipeline stages: build, test, validation, packaging, and deployment
  • Embedding governance gates and automated policy checks into the workflow
  • Ensuring artifact immutability and tracking provenance

Testing, Validation, and Safety Verification of Models

  • Executing data validation and bias detection tests
  • Assessing performance, robustness, and resistance to adversarial attacks
  • Establishing automated acceptance criteria and generating test reports

Model Registry, Versioning, and Provenance Management

  • Leveraging MLflow or similar tools for model lineage and metadata
  • Versioning models and datasets to ensure reproducibility
  • Documenting provenance and creating audit-ready artifacts

Runtime Controls, Monitoring, and Observability

  • Instrumenting systems to log inputs, outputs, and decision-making processes
  • Monitoring model drift, data drift, and key performance indicators
  • Configuring alerting mechanisms, automated rollbacks, and canary deployments

Security, Access Control, and Data Protection

  • Applying least-privilege IAM principles to model training and serving environments
  • Safeguarding training and inference data both at rest and in transit
  • Implementing secrets management and secure configuration standards

Auditability and Evidence Collection

  • Generating machine-readable logs alongside human-readable summaries
  • Compiling evidence packages for conformity assessments and audits
  • Defining retention policies and ensuring secure storage of compliance artifacts

Incident Response, Reporting, and Remediation

  • Detecting potential violations of prohibited practices or safety incidents
  • Executing technical steps for containment, rollback, and mitigation
  • Drafting technical reports for governance bodies and regulatory authorities

Summary and Path Forward

Requirements

  • A solid understanding of software development and deployment workflows
  • Experience with containerization and foundational Kubernetes concepts
  • Familiarity with Git-based source control and CI/CD practices

Target Audience

  • Developers building or maintaining AI components
  • DevOps and platform engineers responsible for deployment
  • Administrators managing infrastructure and runtime environments

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