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

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