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Strategic AI Governance Specialization

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Strategic AI Governance Specialization

Lead AI Governance and Responsible Deployment. Build expertise in AI ethics, governance frameworks, and operational excellence for enterprises.

Caio Avelino
Starweaver
Karlis Zars

Instructors: Caio Avelino

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Intermediate level

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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design and implement comprehensive AI governance frameworks with ethical guidelines, risk assessments, and compliance policies.

  • Build and automate secure MLOps pipelines while conducting systematic audits for bias, fairness, and responsible AI deployment.

  • Optimize AI operations through cloud cost management, security assessments, and performance monitoring across enterprise systems.

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Specialization - 9 course series

What you'll learn

  • Evaluate AI use cases by applying key Responsible AI principles such as fairness, transparency, and accountability.

  • Identify and document potential risks and biases across data, models, and user interactions using structured ethical design tools.

  • Develop and communicate stakeholder-ready presentations and documentation that clearly articulate Responsible AI design decisions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Presentations
Category: Risk Mitigation
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Design
Category: Governance
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Case Studies
Category: Accountability
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Risk Management
Category: Project Documentation
Category: Stakeholder Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Performance monitoring is essential for maintaining AI system reliability and fairness across diverse user populations

  • Technical architecture decisions (fine-tuning vs RAG) require systematic evaluation of costs, capabilities, and maintenance requirements

  • Effective AI governance requires proactive policy creation, technical guardrails, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure responsible deployment

  • Sustainable AI operations depend on establishing measurable quality benchmarks and continuous feedback loops

Skills you'll gain

Category: Governance
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: AI Security
Category: Content Performance Analysis
Category: Generative AI
Category: Cost Benefit Analysis
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Risk Management
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Category: Gap Analysis
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Category: Quality Assessment
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Governance Risk Management and Compliance

What you'll learn

  • Effective RBAC uses real usage patterns, not assumptions, to ensure access controls match actual workflows and security needs.

  • Governance maturity assessment with frameworks like DAMA-DMBOK provides benchmarks to guide progress and investment decisions.

  • Sustainable data stewardship succeeds with clear ownership, quality standards, and documented procedures that enable accountability .

  • GenAI data governance balances rapid innovation with enterprise security and compliance requirements for responsible adoption .

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Governance
Category: Data Quality
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Security Controls
Category: Data Security
Category: Metadata Management
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Data Access
Category: Data Management
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Benchmarking
Category: AI Security
Category: Quality Assurance and Control
Category: Governance
Category: Generative AI

What you'll learn

  • Ethical AI needs proactive bias measurement and fairness checks across demographics to prevent reinforcing societal inequalities.

  • AI success relies on mapping technical initiatives to business goals, continuously assessing ROI and feasibility.

  • Scalable AI operations require governance structures, best practices, clear accountability, and cross-functional collaboration

  • Responsible AI deployment balances innovation with ethics using technical guardrails and evolving organizational frameworks

Skills you'll gain

Category: Governance
Category: Risk Mitigation
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Scalability
Category: Technology Roadmaps
Category: Decision Making
Category: Enterprise Architecture
Category: Cross-Functional Collaboration
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Data Governance
Category: Business Management
Category: Artificial Intelligence

What you'll learn

  • Reliable MLOps depends on systematic diagnosis: performance issues are solved by log analysis and pipeline investigation, not guesswork.

  • Governance must be automated into deployment—responsible AI needs CI/CD checks for fairness, explainability, and safe rollbacks, not manual reviews.

  • Adaptive systems need intelligent automation—production models should monitor drift and trigger retraining automatically to stay accurate.

  • Operational excellence requires end-to-end visibility, strong monitoring, versioning and audit trails enable fast debugging and long-term reliability

Skills you'll gain

Category: Automation
Category: Model Deployment
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Continuous Deployment
Category: Continuous Delivery
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Data Governance
Category: CI/CD
Category: Cloud Platforms
Category: Continuous Integration

What you'll learn

  • Security assessment combines threat modeling with penetration testing evidence to evaluate an application’s true security posture.

  • Secure coding frameworks must align security needs with developer workflows to deliver scalable, practical guidance.

  • Dependency risk management prioritizes fixes by weighing technical severity against real business impact

  • Proactive security integration reduces costly rework while maintaining strong protection and development speed

Skills you'll gain

Category: Vulnerability Management
Category: Dependency Analysis
Category: Secure Coding
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: Code Review
Category: Risk Management Framework
Category: Security Requirements Analysis
Category: DevSecOps
Category: Cyber Security Assessment
Category: Security Strategy
Category: Security Testing
Category: Penetration Testing
Category: Application Security
Category: Vulnerability Scanning

What you'll learn

  • Resource optimization needs continuous monitoring of allocated capacity versus real usage to detect waste and bottlenecks.

  • Smart cloud procurement balances reserved, spot, and on-demand pricing using cost-benefit analysis tied to workload needs.

  • Strong financial governance relies on predictive models combining historical usage data with upcoming business plans.

  • Sustainable cloud operations require clear benchmarks, automated monitoring, and collaboration between engineering and finance teams

Skills you'll gain

Category: Forecasting
Category: Cost Management
Category: Operating Cost
Category: Financial Modeling
Category: Resource Utilization
Category: Financial Management
Category: Capacity Management
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Cost Estimation
Category: Cost Benefit Analysis
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Resource Allocation
Category: Gap Analysis
Category: Performance Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Create comprehensive documentation and conduct ethical evaluations of large language model systems to ensure responsible AI deployment.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Auditing
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Mitigation
Category: Compliance Auditing
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Accountability
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Project Documentation
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Case Studies
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Technical Documentation
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Data Quality

What you'll learn

  • Map model metrics to business metrics, and define baselines, counterfactuals, and a measurement plan.

  • Design experiments, compute lift and confidence intervals, and plan guardrails.

  • Quantify ROI and risk, build an impact dashboard, and craft an executive story with clear next steps.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Return On Investment
Category: A/B Testing
Category: Business Metrics
Category: Business
Category: Product Management
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Sample Size Determination
Category: Financial Analysis
Category: Experimentation
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Analysis
Category: Power Electronics
Category: Performance Measurement
Category: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Category: Dashboard
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Business Valuation
Category: Machine Learning

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Instructors

Caio Avelino
9 Courses 7,601 learners
Starweaver
Coursera
538 Courses 979,720 learners
Karlis Zars
33 Courses 56,360 learners

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