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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
- Understanding prohibited practices under Article 4 from a technical standpoint
- Mapping legal requirements to specific engineering controls
Secure and Compliant Development Lifecycle
- Repository structure and policy-as-code implementation for AI projects
- Code review processes and automated static checks for risky patterns
- Dependency and supply-chain management for model components
CI/CD Pipeline Design for Compliance
- Pipeline stages: build, test, validation, package, and deploy
- Integrating governance gates and automated policy checks
- Ensuring artifact immutability and provenance tracking
Model Testing, Validation, and Safety Checks
- Data validation and bias detection testing
- Assessing performance, robustness, and adversarial resilience
- Defining automated acceptance criteria and generating test reports
Model Registry, Versioning, and Provenance
- Utilising MLflow or equivalent tools for model lineage and metadata
- Versioning models and datasets to ensure reproducibility
- Recording provenance and producing audit-ready artifacts
Runtime Controls, Monitoring, and Observability
- Instrumentation for logging inputs, outputs, and decision-making
- Monitoring model drift, data drift, and performance metrics
- Implementing alerting, automated rollback, and canary deployments
Security, Access Control, and Data Protection
- Applying least-privilege IAM to model 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
- Detecting suspected prohibited practices or safety incidents
- Technical procedures for containment, rollback, and mitigation
- Preparing technical reports for governance teams and regulators
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- A solid understanding of software development and deployment workflows.
- Experience with containerisation and foundational Kubernetes concepts.
- Familiarity with Git-based source control and CI/CD practices.
Audience
- Developers responsible for building or maintaining AI components.
- DevOps and platform engineers overseeing deployment processes.
- Administrators managing infrastructure and runtime environments.
