C4DT Course for Decision-Makers: Agentic AI Unveiled: Myth, Reality, and Trust

November 7th, 2025, 09h00-12h30,
EPFL


Introduction

Agentic AI—capable of autonomously handling tasks, coordinating
workflows, and interacting with people and systems—continues to
transform how organizations operate.

Unlock the potential of agentic AI with our course, “Agentic AI Unveiled: Myth, Reality, and Trust.” Designed specifically for decision makers, this 2.75-hour program provides a clear and comprehensive overview of AI agents, their functionalities, and their impact. You’ll gain insights into the operational challenges, ethical considerations, and security issues surrounding AI agents, all explained in an accessible and engaging manner. This course empowers you to make informed decisions about AI technologies, ensuring you understand the key concepts without needing a technical background.

Who should attend?

  • Professionals seeking a straightforward overview of Agentic AI
  • Managers guiding AI projects and transformations

Course curriculum

  • Demo: Observe a live demonstration showcasing key components
    and functionalities of Agentic AI
  • Agentic AI landscape: Understand Agentic AI and recognize their
    opportunities and limitations
  • Technical and operational considerations: Articulate issues related to
    integration, data management and scalability
  • Legal compliance: Review relevant legal frameworks and regulations
    concerning AI
  • Security: Explore cybersecurity issues specifically related to AI
  • Ethics: Address ethical aspects that are vital to building trust and
    ensuring societal acceptance

Syllabus

TopicDescriptionKey wordsTime
[min]
DemoDiscover the AI agent components and functioning via a demoLLM, roles, tools, guardrails, multi agent architecture (sequentially, hierarchically, asynchronously), memory30
IntroUnderstand AI agents, and recognize their opportunities and limitationsTasks, processes, workflow, agentic collaboration, architecture, tools, multi model, use cases30
Technical and operational challengesArticulate issues related to integration, data management and scalabilityRobust structure, legacy infrastructures, integration issues, complexity, outdated software and APIs, data formats, data management, ontology-based communication, data scarcity, data quality, overfitting, underfitting, performance, critical applications, scalability, maintenance, cost management30
Ethical and social challengesAddress Ethical challenges that are vital to building trust and ensuring societal acceptanceTrust, societal acceptance, transparency, explainability, interpretable models, accountability, strategic reasoning, attention mechanisms, bias, fairness, biased datasets, societal inequities, fairness audits, training processes, civil liberties, ethical frameworks, governance standards, decision-making processes, human-AI collaboration, human-in-the-loop systems, workforce transition45
Security challengesExplore cyber security issues specifically related to AIsecurity vulnerabilities, adversarial attacks, model poisoning, inference attacks critical applications, mitigation strategies30
Total [hour]2.75

For more information: contact Alexandre Fawal