Format

• Delivery: Online, self-paced
• Structure: 5 pre-recorded video modules (approx. 10 minutes each)
• Resources: Accompanying slides for each module
• Assessment: 2 MCQs after each video segment
• Access: Instant upon purchase via LMS

Course Details

This course covers:

• Managing AI risk across data, model, configuration, and human-use dimensions
• Practical controls: governance standards, testing, monitoring, and incident response
• The Seven Principles for Responsible AI:
  • Human agency and oversight
  • Technical robustness and safety
  • Privacy and data governance
  • Transparency
  • Diversity, non-discrimination, fairness
  • Societal and environmental well-being
  • Accountability
• Translating principles into actions: bias testing, DPIAs, documentation, clear responsibility lines EU AI Act:
• Risk tiers and extra-territorial reach
• AI literacy obligations (Feb 2025)
• Phased applicability through Aug 2026
• Next steps for compliance: inventories, transparency, high-risk system requirements
• AI governance essentials: inventory, decision framework, policy & training, documentation, periodic reviews

Speaker Details

Patrick Ward - Founder, Aitheria Partners

Patrick Ward is an AI and digital transformation expert with over 30 years of commercial and technical leadership experience, including 12 years at Microsoft. He advises organisations across Europe on AI adoption and governance, lectures at UCD Smurfit Business School, and serves as European Director of the Edge AI Foundation.

Contact us

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