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GenAI Deployment & Governance Specialization

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GenAI Deployment & Governance Specialization

Enterprise GenAI Deployment & Governance.

Build, deploy, monitor, and govern production-ready GenAI systems with enterprise-grade reliability.

Harshita Gulati
Hurix Digital
John Whitworth

Instructors: Harshita Gulati

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Intermediate level

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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Deploy, orchestrate, and automate GenAI systems using MLOps best practices and cloud platforms

  • Design governance frameworks and monitoring systems ensuring responsible AI at enterprise scale

  • Optimize GenAI performance through data architecture and continuous validation pipelines

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Specialization - 8 course series

GenAI Prompting, Evaluation, and Governance

GenAI Prompting, Evaluation, and Governance

Course 1, 3 hours

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

Deploy, Evaluate and Create AI Systems

Course 2, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Pre-deployment dependency checks prevent runtime failures by validating container setups and dependency graphs for reliable AI deployment.

  • Deployment decisions require evaluating performance, latency, and cost together against application needs and business constraints

  • Zero-downtime strategies like blue-green deployments are essential for production AI to maintain availability and allow quick rollback.

  • Choosing the wrong deployment target or release strategy creates technical debt that grows costly to fix over time.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Application Deployment
Category: Release Management
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Performance Testing
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Version Control
Category: Continuous Deployment
Category: Cloud Deployment
Category: Containerization
Category: Docker (Software)
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Package and Software Management
Category: Dependency Analysis
Category: Cost Benefit Analysis
Category: DevOps
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: CI/CD
Category: Application Performance Management
Category: Application Development
Category: Model Deployment
Orchestrate, Evaluate, and Release GenAI Systems

Orchestrate, Evaluate, and Release GenAI Systems

Course 3, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Proactive compatibility analysis prevents runtime failures and lowers operational overhead through dependency checks.

  • Data-driven release decisions synthesize test metrics, system performance, and business impact assessments

  • Automated deployment with canary releases and rollback mechanisms reduces production risk in continuous delivery.

  • Sustainable deployment relies on reproducible workflows that scale effectively across teams and environments.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Application Deployment
Category: Release Management
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Generative AI
Category: Software Technical Review
Category: System Requirements
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Continuous Delivery
Category: Dependency Analysis
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Continuous Deployment
Category: Application Performance Management
Category: Regression Testing
Category: Kubernetes
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Verification And Validation
Category: Site Reliability Engineering
Category: Cloud Deployment
Category: CI/CD
Category: AI Orchestration
Automate, Validate, and Promote ML Models Safely

Automate, Validate, and Promote ML Models Safely

Course 4, 3 hours

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

What you'll learn

  • Effective alerting uses historical data to tune thresholds, reducing false alarms while catching issues before SLA breaches

  • Great performance monitoring unifies user metrics and backend KPIs to show how system health impacts user experience.

  • Modern observability relies on logs, metrics, and traces to assess health and diagnose issues in distributed AI systems.

  • Sustainable GenAI operations use data-driven monitoring to balance early detection with long-term operational efficiency.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Incident Management
Category: Distributed Computing
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Dashboard
Category: Application Performance Management
Category: Real Time Data
Category: Site Reliability Engineering
Category: Generative AI
Category: Data Integration
Category: Service Level Agreement
Category: Event Monitoring
Category: Business Metrics
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Analysis
Category: Service Level
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Performance Metric
Architect and Optimize GenAI Data Systems

Architect and Optimize GenAI Data Systems

Course 6, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Data lineage is key for AI reliability, helping quickly diagnose model performance drops and data quality issues.

  • Storage architecture affects costs and AI performance; evaluating access patterns and tiering ensures sustainable scaling.

  • Unified data processing reduces complexity by integrating streaming and batch workflows for real-time and analytical AI use.

  • Enterprise GenAI systems need proactive planning of data quality, cost, and platform integration to avoid technical debt.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Integration
Category: Data Architecture
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Generative AI
Category: Data Processing
Category: Dependency Analysis
Category: Enterprise Architecture
Category: Cloud Storage
Category: Failure Analysis
Category: Dataflow
Category: Solution Architecture
Category: Root Cause Analysis
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Real Time Data
Category: Apache Kafka
Category: Data Infrastructure
Category: Data Storage
Category: Data Quality
Govern Your GenAI Data Safely

Govern Your GenAI Data Safely

Course 7, 2 hours

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

Automate Data Onboarding, Validate, and Govern

Course 8, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Systematic metadata analysis maintains data quality and helps control storage costs in large-scale AI environments.

  • Effective data retention balances regulatory compliance, business requirements, and long-term cost optimization.

  • Automated data onboarding ensures consistency, quality, and scalability as enterprise data volumes increase.

  • Proactive data governance prevents downstream issues and accelerates AI development and deployment cycles

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Architecture
Category: Extract, Transform, Load
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Metadata Management
Category: Data Integration
Category: Analytics
Category: Data Storage
Category: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Category: Data Processing
Category: Data Maintenance
Category: Data Quality
Category: AI Enablement
Category: Data Management
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Data Governance
Category: Data Storage Technologies
Category: Data Strategy
Category: Information Privacy
Category: Expense Management
Category: Cost Reduction

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Instructors

Harshita Gulati
Coursera
3 Courses916 learners
Hurix Digital
Coursera
439 Courses36,735 learners
John Whitworth
Coursera
30 Courses2,244 learners

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