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 Duration 14 hours

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Foundations: Understanding the EU AI Act for Engineering Teams

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

The Secure and Compliant Development Lifecycle

  • Structuring repositories and applying policy-as-code principles to AI projects
  • Integrating code reviews and automated static analysis to identify risky patterns
  • Managing dependencies and supply chain integrity 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 maintaining accurate provenance tracking

Testing, Validation, and Safety Assurance for Models

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

Model Registry, Versioning, and Provenance Management

  • Utilizing MLflow or equivalent tools for model lineage and metadata management
  • Versioning models and datasets to ensure reproducibility
  • Documenting provenance and generating audit-ready artifacts

Runtime Controls, Monitoring, and Observability

  • Implementing instrumentation to log inputs, outputs, and decision logic
  • Monitoring for model drift, data drift, and performance degradation
  • Configuring alerting systems, automated rollbacks, and canary deployments

Security, Access Control, and Data Protection

  • Applying least-privilege IAM policies to model training and serving environments
  • Securing training and inference data both at rest and in transit
  • Managing secrets and adhering to secure configuration best 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 violations of prohibited practices or safety incidents
  • Executing technical steps for containment, rollback, and mitigation
  • Drafting technical reports for internal governance and regulatory bodies

Wrap-up and Future Actions

Requirements

  • A solid grasp 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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