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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

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 requirements into actionable engineering controls.

Secure and Compliant Development Lifecycle

  • Repository structure and policy-as-code implementation for AI projects.
  • Code reviews and automated static analysis to detect risky patterns.
  • Managing dependencies and supply chains for model components.

CI/CD Pipeline Design for Compliance

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

Model Testing, Validation, and Safety Checks

  • Executing data validation and bias detection tests.
  • Assessing performance, robustness, and adversarial resilience.
  • Defining automated acceptance criteria and generating test reports.

Model Registry, Versioning, and Provenance

  • Leveraging MLflow or similar tools for model lineage and metadata management.
  • Versioning models and datasets to ensure reproducibility.
  • Recording 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 metrics.
  • Configuring alerting, automated rollback, and canary deployment strategies.

Security, Access Control, and Data Protection

  • Implementing least-privilege IAM for model training and serving environments.
  • Safeguarding training and inference data both at rest and in transit.
  • Managing secrets and adhering to secure configuration practices.

Auditability and Evidence Collection

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

Incident Response, Reporting, and Remediation

  • Detecting suspected prohibited practices or safety incidents.
  • Executing technical steps for containment, rollback, and mitigation.
  • Preparing technical reports for internal governance and regulators.

Summary and Next Steps

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.

Audience

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

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