Course Overview
The 'Technical AI Governance Essentials – Foundations' course provides a comprehensive roadmap for organizations to mature their AI governance capabilities from a hands-on, technical perspective.
The course’s primary goal is to guide students in establishing, integrating, and orchestrating AI governance platforms, ultimately positioning technical governance as an enabler of speed and innovation. The emphasis is on understanding the holistic technical approach, architecture, and implementation of AI governance in a real-world context.
Who should attend
This course is aimed at technical practitioners and technical-adjacent roles, such as data scientists, MLOps engineers, data engineers, cloud security architects, and technical leads responsible for designing, building, and maintaining AI systems. The ideal attendee has significant experience in a technical role and is involved in building AI applications or infrastructure.
Prerequisites
Any technical background—experience implementing production systems, software engineers, solution architects, and security professionals.
Course Objectives
- Explain the holistic approach, principles, and key considerations of AI governance.
- Design architecture patterns for governance-by-design.
- Implement strategies for AI governance across different organizational scales.
- Integrate governance techniques within diverse technical environments.
- Apply advanced optimization and automation approaches to AI governance.
- Develop platform designs for governance-as-a-service.
Outline: Technical AI Governance Essentials – Foundations (TAIGEF)
Module 0 - The AI governance imperative: What, how, and why now?
Objectives
- Explain the holistic approach, principles, and key considerations of AI governance.
Module 1 - Set up infrastructure: Build the governance platform
Objectives
- Design architecture patterns for governance-by-design.
Activities
- Discussion: Identifying your technical debt
- Quiz questions
- Discussion: Technical tools as governance enablers
Module 2 - Integrate: Unify the governance platform
Objectives
- Implement strategies for AI governance across different organizational scales.
Activities
- Discussion: Tailoring governance for performance
- Quiz questions
- Discussion: Measure platform success
- Tabletop exercise: Corrupted data incident