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Foundations of Sovereign AI

  • Understanding what sovereign AI entails for regulated organisations
  • Business, legal, and operational drivers
  • Key control areas: data, models, infrastructure, and operations

Regulatory Requirements and Risk Mapping

  • Data residency, privacy regulations, and sector-specific obligations
  • Mapping sensitive data to specific AI use cases
  • Identifying risks related to cross-border data transfer, logging practices, and third-party exposure

Governing Data, Prompts, and Logs

  • Prompt governance and defining acceptable use boundaries
  • Establishing logging policies for prompts, responses, and metadata
  • Implementing retention, redaction, masking, and access control practices
  • Exercise: reviewing an AI data flow to identify governance gaps

Model Hosting and Inference Environment Options

  • Evaluating deployment choices: public API, private cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments
  • Key factors for determining where models should operate
  • Balancing trade-offs among control, security, cost, and operational ownership

Vendor Dependence and Portability

  • Recognising common lock-in patterns in models, tools, and platforms
  • Achieving portability through modular architecture, open interfaces, and clear contractual terms
  • Exercise: evaluating a vendor against sovereignty criteria

Governance Model and Action Planning

  • Defining roles and responsibilities across IT, security, legal, and compliance teams
  • Establishing approval workflows for use cases, models, and operational changes
  • Meeting expectations for auditability, monitoring, and incident response
  • Developing a practical sovereign AI roadmap and outlining next steps

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of AI concepts, data governance, and compliance requirements
  • Familiarity with enterprise technology, cloud infrastructure, security protocols, or risk management decision-making
  • No prior programming experience is required

Audience

  • IT leaders, enterprise architects, and platform managers
  • Risk, compliance, legal, and data governance professionals
  • Security teams and business executives responsible for driving AI adoption in regulated sectors
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