AI Compliance and Governance Training Course

Duration 10 days 19 modules · 65 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Compliance Managers, Risk Managers and others
Fee from USD 2,200 KSh 190,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-AI-052

Before you join: Participants should have practical experience in at least one relevant area: compliance, risk, legal, audit, privacy, information security, data governance, technology delivery or product management.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

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Course overview

Artificial intelligence creates material compliance, conduct, privacy, security and operational risks when models influence customers, employees, citizens, credit decisions, fraud controls, health services or critical processes. Organisations need more than policy statements: they need a repeatable governance system that identifies AI use cases, assigns accountable owners, classifies risk, tests controls, records decisions and monitors deployed systems. Regulatory expectations are increasing through instruments such as the EU AI Act, while existing obligations under data protection, consumer protection, financial services, employment and sector rules still apply.

This course equips participants to design and operate practical AI governance controls. Participants interpret risk-based regulatory requirements, apply the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, establish an AI management system aligned with ISO/IEC 42001, and assess risks using ISO/IEC 23894. They learn to create AI inventories, perform use-case classification, complete impact assessments, define human oversight, assess suppliers, document model decisions, test for bias and harmful outputs, and prepare evidence for internal audit or regulatory review.

Teaching combines concise instructor briefings with worked cases from banking, public services, insurance, HR, customer operations and digital products. Group work applies governance methods to realistic AI systems, including credit scoring, recruitment screening, generative AI assistants and fraud detection. Participants develop a governance pack throughout the course, culminating in a complete AI use-case assessment and control plan. The course is delivered over 10 days, from 08:30 to 16:30, in classroom locations across 50+ cities or live online. Participants receive a certificate of completion.

The course is suited to professionals who already work with risk, compliance, data, technology, audit, legal, security or product governance and now need to govern AI systems with clear evidence and accountable decision-making.

What you will be able to do

  • Classify AI use cases using risk, impact and regulatory applicability criteria
  • Build an AI system inventory with accountable owners, data sources and deployment status
  • Apply the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to identify and treat AI risks
  • Conduct an AI impact assessment covering rights, safety, privacy and operational harms
  • Design human oversight, testing and monitoring controls for high-impact AI systems
  • Assess third-party AI providers through due diligence, contractual controls and assurance evidence
  • Create audit-ready governance records, model documentation and approval evidence
  • Present a complete AI governance assessment and control plan for a selected use case

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Apply recognised AI governance frameworks to live organisational use cases
  • Produce impact assessments and control plans suitable for management review
  • Discuss AI regulatory duties confidently with legal, technology and business stakeholders
  • Identify evidence gaps before an internal audit, customer review or regulator enquiry
  • Build a professional portfolio of reusable AI governance templates and decision records

For your organisation

  • Establish consistent risk classification before AI systems reach production
  • Reduce unapproved AI use through inventories, ownership and approval gates
  • Strengthen evidence for regulators, auditors, customers and procurement teams
  • Improve supplier accountability for model documentation, testing and incident reporting
  • Embed human oversight and monitoring controls in high-impact AI services

Course modules

19 modules over 10 days

Participants can distinguish AI governance responsibilities from technical development and general IT governance.

  • AI system taxonomy: predictive, generative, agentic and decision-support applications
  • Governance lifecycle from use-case proposal through retirement and record retention
  • Accountability mapping across business owner, developer, deployer and oversight functions
  • Three-lines model applied to AI risk ownership and independent assurance
  • Materiality criteria for customer, employee, citizen and safety-impacting AI decisions
  • Control objectives translated into policies, procedures, evidence and escalation paths

Participants can identify applicable AI, privacy and sector obligations for a proposed system.

  • EU AI Act risk categories, operator roles and compliance duties
  • GDPR automated decision-making rules, lawful basis and data protection impact assessments
  • Sector obligations affecting credit, insurance, employment, healthcare and public services
  • ISO/IEC 42001 AI management system requirements and documented information
  • NIST AI RMF functions: Govern, Map, Measure and Manage
  • Regulatory horizon scanning using obligation registers and accountable action owners

Participants can build an AI inventory and define a controlled intake process for new use cases.

  • AI inventory fields: purpose, owner, vendor, data, model and status
  • Intake questionnaires capturing intended users, decisions, affected persons and jurisdictions
  • System boundary diagrams separating model, application, data pipeline and human process
  • Shadow AI discovery through procurement records, software registers and user surveys
  • Unique identifiers linking inventories to risk registers, contracts and audit evidence
  • Portfolio reporting metrics for proposed, approved, deployed, suspended and retired systems

Participants can classify AI use cases and determine whether escalation or prohibition is required.

  • Risk classification criteria based on intended purpose, affected persons and decision consequences
  • EU AI Act prohibited practices and unacceptable-risk screening questions
  • High-risk system identification using Annex III categories and sector-specific triggers
  • General-purpose AI obligations distinguished from downstream deployer responsibilities
  • Decision trees documenting classification rationale, uncertainty and legal review points
  • Risk acceptance thresholds linked to executive authority and escalation requirements

Participants can assess AI risks using structured scenarios, controls and residual-risk decisions.

  • ISO/IEC 23894 risk process applied to AI system objectives
  • Risk scenarios covering discrimination, error, misuse, opacity and automation bias
  • Likelihood and impact scoring calibrated with defined rating criteria
  • Inherent and residual risk ratings recorded within enterprise risk registers
  • Bow-tie analysis connecting causes, preventive controls, impacts and recovery controls
  • Risk treatment options: avoid, reduce, transfer, accept or terminate

Participants can complete an impact assessment for people, organisations and affected communities.

  • Impact assessment scope defining purpose, context, users and affected groups
  • Rights impact analysis for fairness, privacy, dignity, access and contestability
  • Stakeholder mapping for customers, employees, citizens, representatives and vulnerable groups
  • Foreseeable misuse analysis using threat scenarios and abuse-case techniques
  • Proportionality assessment comparing AI intervention against less intrusive alternatives
  • Mitigation plans assigning control owners, deadlines, evidence and approval criteria

Participants can specify data governance controls that support lawful and reliable AI operation.

  • Data lineage mapping from collection through training, inference and retention
  • Purpose limitation and data minimisation applied to AI training datasets
  • Data quality dimensions: accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency and representativeness
  • Dataset documentation using datasheets for datasets and provenance records
  • Sensitive attribute handling for fairness testing and access-controlled analysis
  • Retention schedules for prompts, outputs, training data and decision records

Participants can select proportionate fairness testing and explanation controls for an AI use case.

  • Bias sources across problem framing, data collection, labels and deployment
  • Group fairness measures: demographic parity, equal opportunity and disparate impact
  • Representative sampling checks for protected groups and underserved populations
  • Explainability methods: feature importance, SHAP values and reason codes
  • Adverse action notices linked to decision logic, review routes and evidence
  • Fairness exceptions documented through legal review, risk acceptance and monitoring

Participants can design human oversight that is meaningful, competent and evidenced.

  • Human-in-the-loop, human-on-the-loop and human-in-command operating models
  • Override authority defined through decision rights, thresholds and escalation paths
  • Reviewer competence requirements covering domain knowledge, bias awareness and authority
  • Meaningful review criteria preventing rubber-stamping of automated recommendations
  • Contestability routes for affected persons, frontline staff and account holders
  • Workload and alert-volume analysis for sustainable human review capacity

Participants can govern generative AI tools through use restrictions, safeguards and monitoring.

  • Generative AI risk taxonomy: hallucination, prompt injection, disclosure and harmful content
  • Acceptable-use rules for public tools, enterprise assistants and embedded copilots
  • Prompt and output controls using content filters, grounding and retrieval constraints
  • Intellectual property checks for training content, generated material and licensing
  • Human review thresholds for legal, financial, medical and public communications
  • Logging requirements for prompts, outputs, tool calls and user feedback

Participants can specify documentation required to explain, approve and audit an AI system.

  • Model cards documenting intended use, limitations, performance and ethical considerations
  • Technical documentation covering architecture, inputs, outputs, interfaces and dependencies
  • Training and validation records supporting reproducibility and performance claims
  • Version control for models, prompts, datasets, code and configuration settings
  • Decision logs recording approvals, assumptions, exceptions and material changes
  • Evidence traceability from control requirement to test result and owner

Participants can create a risk-based validation plan for AI systems before and after release.

  • Validation independence matched to system risk, materiality and model complexity
  • Test plans covering performance, reliability, fairness, security and safety
  • Acceptance criteria defined before testing, release approval and production deployment
  • Red-team methods for harmful outputs, jailbreaks, abuse and prompt injection
  • Scenario testing with edge cases, vulnerable users and degraded data
  • Assurance reports documenting findings, remediation deadlines and residual risks

Participants can integrate AI-specific security and incident controls into operational response processes.

  • AI threat modelling using assets, adversaries, attack paths and mitigations
  • Threats including data poisoning, model inversion, extraction and adversarial examples
  • Privacy controls for personal data, sensitive prompts and generated outputs
  • Incident severity criteria for harmful decisions, data exposure and model failures
  • AI incident playbooks covering containment, investigation, notification and recovery
  • Post-incident reviews feeding root-cause analysis, control changes and governance reporting

Participants can conduct due diligence and contract for appropriate AI supplier accountability.

  • Supplier segmentation based on AI criticality, data access and decision impact
  • Due diligence questionnaires covering training data, testing, security and model updates
  • Contract clauses for audit rights, incident notification and change notification
  • Service-level measures for availability, accuracy, support and remediation response
  • Subprocessor and subcontractor controls for data access and model hosting
  • Exit plans addressing data return, model replacement and continuity risks

Participants can design an AI management system aligned with ISO/IEC 42001 requirements.

  • ISO/IEC 42001 context analysis defining interested parties and governance scope
  • AI policy objectives linked to measurable controls, owners and review cycles
  • Roles, competence and awareness requirements within an AI management system
  • Documented information controls for approvals, assessments, tests and monitoring records
  • Internal audit programmes testing conformance, effectiveness and corrective actions
  • Management review agendas covering risks, incidents, metrics and improvement priorities

Participants can establish monitoring thresholds and change controls for deployed AI systems.

  • Key risk indicators for performance drift, bias drift and control failure
  • Monitoring dashboards combining model metrics, user feedback, complaints and incidents
  • Data drift and concept drift detection with defined investigation thresholds
  • Change classification for retraining, prompt updates, vendor releases and scope changes
  • Reapproval triggers based on material performance, population or purpose changes
  • Periodic review schedules matched to risk tier, usage volume and impact

Participants can prepare governance evidence and reporting for audit committees, regulators and senior management.

  • Audit trails linking use-case decisions, controls, evidence and accountable owners
  • Control testing methods: inquiry, observation, inspection and reperformance
  • Evidence packs for regulators, customers, internal audit and assurance providers
  • Board reporting dashboards showing portfolio risk, incidents, exceptions and remediation
  • Regulatory enquiry protocols assigning legal review, facts validation and response ownership
  • Findings management using root cause, corrective action and closure evidence

Participants can plan a phased AI governance implementation with priorities, resources and measurable milestones.

  • Current-state assessment across policy, inventory, risk, controls and assurance
  • Maturity model scoring from ad hoc controls to managed governance
  • Prioritisation matrix using regulatory exposure, business value and implementation effort
  • Target operating model defining committees, decision rights and reporting lines
  • Ninety-day implementation plan with milestones, dependencies and accountable owners
  • Change management actions for training, communications, adoption and resistance handling

Participants can build, review and present a complete AI governance assessment and control plan for a selected AI use case.

  • Use-case dossier defining purpose, stakeholders, system boundaries and deployment context
  • Risk classification supported by regulatory mapping and documented decision rationale
  • Impact assessment covering rights, privacy, fairness, safety and operational consequences
  • Control plan specifying owners, tests, evidence, thresholds and escalation routes
  • Approval pack including supplier assurance, human oversight and monitoring requirements
  • Management presentation defending residual-risk decisions, implementation priorities and next steps

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. AI use-case inventory template
  2. AI risk classification decision tree
  3. Algorithmic impact assessment template
  4. AI control and evidence matrix
  5. Third-party AI due diligence checklist
  6. AI governance implementation roadmap

Who should attend

  • Compliance Managers — establish defensible controls for AI-enabled products and processes
  • Risk Managers — assess AI risks within enterprise risk and model risk frameworks
  • Data Protection Officers — address automated decision-making, privacy and data governance obligations
  • AI Product Managers — build approval, testing and monitoring requirements into delivery plans
  • Internal Auditors — test AI governance design and evidence against stated controls
  • Legal, Technology and Security Leaders — assign accountability for AI procurement and deployment

Skills and tools covered

AI risk classificationAlgorithmic impact assessmentModel risk governanceAI supplier assuranceHuman oversight designAudit evidence management

Tools and standards

EU AI Act, NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, ISO/IEC 23894:2023

How the course runs

Training methodology

The instructor introduces each method through short briefings, annotated examples and regulatory scenarios. Participants analyse AI use cases, complete governance artefacts in small groups, and compare control choices for different risk levels. Simulations include approval boards, supplier reviews, incident escalation and audit evidence testing. Cases draw on banking, insurance, public services, HR and customer-facing digital products. Individual application planning connects each template to participants’ own AI portfolio, governance structure and control priorities.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have practical experience in at least one relevant area: compliance, risk, legal, audit, privacy, information security, data governance, technology delivery or product management. Familiarity with organisational policies, risk registers and approval processes is useful. Participants should be able to read process documents and discuss how an AI-enabled service works. Programming, data science, mathematics and prior AI model-building experience are not required. The course explains technical concepts needed for governance without teaching machine learning development.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

You should have experience in compliance, risk, legal, audit, privacy, security, data governance, technology or product delivery. You do not need programming, statistics or machine learning development skills.

Bring a laptop for live-online delivery and, where permitted, a non-confidential description of an AI use case you need to govern. Course templates and case materials are provided.

It is designed for professionals responsible for approving, governing, procuring, reviewing or assuring AI-enabled services. It suits cross-functional groups from compliance, risk, legal, technology, audit and product teams.

This course focuses on accountability, regulatory duties, risk assessment, controls, documentation and assurance. It does not teach participants to build, train or code machine learning models.

Participants can use the inventory, classification, impact assessment and control templates for active AI proposals or deployed systems. The capstone gives a structured route to prepare an approval pack or remediation plan.

The first week establishes governance foundations and develops risk, impact, data and oversight artefacts. The second week addresses assurance, suppliers, monitoring, audit evidence and a capstone governance assessment.

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