Sovereign AI for Regulated Organizations: Controlling Data, Models and Inference Environments Training Course

Foundations of Sovereign AI

• Understanding what sovereign AI entails for regulated organizations.
• Business, legal, and operational drivers behind sovereignty.
• Key control domains: data, models, infrastructure, and operations.

Regulatory Requirements and Risk Mapping

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

Governing Data, Prompts, and Logs

• Prompt governance and defining acceptable use boundaries.
• Logging policies for prompts, responses, and metadata.
• Practices for retention, redaction, masking, and access control.
• Exercise: Conducting an AI data flow review to identify governance gaps.

Model Hosting and Inference Environment Options

• Evaluating public APIs, private clouds, on-premise, and hybrid deployment models.
• Key factors in determining optimal model execution locations.
• Weighing trade-offs between control, security, cost, and operational ownership.

Vendor Dependence and Portability

• Identifying common lock-in patterns in models, tools, and platforms.
• Enhancing portability via modular architecture, open interfaces, and clear contractual terms.
• Exercise: Assessing vendors against sovereignty criteria.

Governance Model and Action Planning

• Defining roles and responsibilities across IT, security, legal, and compliance functions.
• Establishing approval workflows for use cases, models, and operational changes.
• Expectations for auditability, monitoring, and incident response.
• Constructing a practical sovereign AI roadmap and defining immediate next steps.