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:

• The case for AI governance: risks such as bias, privacy, ethics, legislation, and shadow AI
• Defining AI governance: formal processes, standards, and guardrails based on fairness, transparency, accountability, privacy, ethics, and security
• The “Should we?” question for responsible AI use
• EU AI Act:
  • Risk tiers (unacceptable, high, limited/minimal)
  • Extraterritorial reach and lifecycle-based compliance
• Suggested governance framework with four pillars:
• Ethical Alignment & Principles
• Risk Management & Oversight (impact assessments, monitoring, audits, incident response)
• Data & Security Foundation (quality, provenance, cyber-resilience)
• Organization & Culture (cross-functional governance, roles, training)
• Irish Public Sector Responsible AI Framework and DBS case study

Speaker Details

Professor Joe Peppard, Smurfit Business School

Professor Joe Peppard is Academic Director at UCD Smurfit Executive Development. Previously, he was a faculty member at MIT Sloan School of Management, ESMT Berlin, and at Cranfield School of Management, UK. A leading authority on digital transformation, his research studies contemporary issues and challenges that managers face in an environment of accelerating technological change. In his writings and teaching, Professor Peppard seeks to help the busy manager to be successful. Last year, The Wall Street Journal cited his research on digital transformation as one of “10 tech events that will shape the future.”

Contact us

If you have any questions regarding this or any other CPD course or requirements, please feel free to contact the team here or call us at (+353) 01 523 3930

Accessing your CPD Sprint

See information below on how to access your course after purchase:

Once you have purchased and paid for the course, you will receive an access email containing your enrolment link from noreply@charteredaccountants.ie.  To enrol on this course, please use the enrolment link provided and follow the instructions below.

Note: Once you have enrolled on the course, you can continue to access it through our Learning Management System, Canvas on cpaireland.instructure.com

Enrolment instructions:
1. If you do not have an existing Chartered Accountants Ireland Canvas (previously CPA Ireland Canvas) account:

• Follow the enrolment link.
• Enter the email address you used to purchase the course.
• Select "I am a new user"
• Enter your full name.
• Click "Enrol in course"
• You will receive an email from "Chartered Accountants Ireland on-demand courses" on notifications@instructure.com to complete your registration and set your password.

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• Follow the enrolment link.
• Enter the email address you used to purchase the course (this should be the same as the email on your existing Canvas account).
• Enter your Canvas password (note, this password was set by you – it may not be the same as your member login)
• Click "Enrol in course"

3. If you already have and existing Chartered Accountants Ireland Canvas (previously CPA Ireland Canvas) account but have lost your password:

• Go to https://cpaireland.instructure.com/login/canvas, select "Forgot Password?", enter your email and click "Request Password".
• You will receive an email from "Chartered Accountants Ireland on-demand courses" on notifications@instructure.com with a link to set a new password.
• Once you have reset your password, follow the enrolment link.
• Enter the email address associated with your existing Canvas account.
• Enter your new Canvas password.
• Click "Enrol in course"

Please note that Institute staff do not have access to your passwords on Canvas. If you lose your password, please follow the password reset instructions to set a new one.

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By registering for this course, you have accepted the CPD terms and conditions.

If you have any questions, please contact us at cpd@charteredaccountants.ie