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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Foundations: EU AI Act for Technical Teams

  • Key obligations and terminology relevant to developers and operators
  • Technical perspective on prohibited practices under Article 4
  • Translating legal requirements into specific engineering controls

Secure and Compliant Development Lifecycle

  • Repository structure and policy-as-code implementation for AI projects
  • Code review and automated static analysis for identifying risky patterns
  • Dependency and supply-chain management for model components

CI/CD Pipeline Design for Compliance

  • Pipeline stages: build, test, validation, package, and deploy
  • Integration of governance gates and automated policy checks
  • Ensuring artifact immutability and provenance tracking

Model Testing, Validation, and Safety Checks

  • Data validation and bias detection testing protocols
  • Assessing performance, robustness, and adversarial resilience
  • Defining automated acceptance criteria and generating test reports

Model Registry, Versioning, and Provenance

  • Utilizing MLflow or equivalent 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

  • Instrumentation for logging inputs, outputs, and decision-making processes
  • Monitoring model drift, data drift, and key performance metrics
  • Implementing alerting, automated rollback, and canary deployments

Security, Access Control, and Data Protection

  • Applying least-privilege IAM strategies 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 regulatory audits
  • Defining retention policies and secure storage for compliance artifacts

Incident Response, Reporting, and Remediation

  • Identifying suspected prohibited practices or safety incidents
  • Technical procedures 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
  • Experience with containerization and fundamental Kubernetes concepts
  • Familiarity with Git-based source control and CI/CD practices

Target Audience

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

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