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 Duration 14 hours

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Foundations: The EU AI Act for Technical Teams

  • Key obligations and terminology relevant to developers and operators
  • Technical interpretation of prohibited practices under Article 4
  • Translating legal mandates into specific engineering controls

Secure and Compliant Development Lifecycle

  • Structuring repositories and implementing policy-as-code for AI projects
  • Code reviews and automated static analysis for identifying risky patterns
  • Managing dependencies and supply chains for model components

Designing CI/CD Pipelines for Compliance

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

Model Testing, Validation, and Safety Verification

  • Conducting data validation and bias detection tests
  • Evaluating performance, robustness, and resilience against adversarial attacks
  • Defining automated acceptance criteria and generating test reports

Model Registry, Versioning, and Provenance Tracking

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

Runtime Controls, Monitoring, and Observability

  • Instrumenting systems to log inputs, outputs, and decision-making processes
  • Monitoring for model drift, data drift, and performance metrics
  • Implementing alerting, automated rollback mechanisms, and canary deployments

Security, Access Control, and Data Protection

  • Applying least-privilege IAM policies for training and serving environments
  • Safeguarding training and inference data both at rest and in transit
  • Best practices for secrets management and secure configuration

Auditability and Evidence Collection

  • Generating machine-readable logs alongside human-readable summaries
  • Packaging evidence for conformity assessments and audits
  • Establishing retention policies and secure storage for compliance artifacts

Incident Response, Reporting, and Remediation

  • Identifying suspected prohibited practices or safety incidents
  • Executing technical steps for containment, rollback, and mitigation
  • Drafting technical reports for governance bodies and regulators

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of software development and deployment workflows
  • Practical experience with containerization and fundamental Kubernetes concepts
  • Working knowledge of Git-based version control and CI/CD methodologies

Target Audience

  • Developers responsible for creating or maintaining AI components
  • DevOps and platform engineers overseeing deployment operations
  • Administrators managing underlying infrastructure and runtime environments

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