Maintain Your Certification (CPD)

Ongoing engagement with AI governance learning

This page provides a high-level orientation to how maintaining an IIAIG certification can be connected to continuing professional development (CPD) activities. It focuses on ongoing learning rather than fixed numerical requirements, recognizing that institutions and organizations may adopt their own detailed expectations.

What “maintenance” means here
  • Emphasizes ongoing engagement with AI governance themes.
  • Encourages institutions and organizations to situate certifications within their own learning ecosystems.
  • Does not prescribe a universal numeric CPD formula; such details are defined by institutions/programs.
Why CPD matters Examples of CPD
Rationale

Why talk about CPD for AI governance?

AI governance evolves as technologies, regulations, risks and ethical expectations change. CPD is about staying oriented in a dynamic environment.

Evolving practice

AI governance discussions shift over time. CPD helps individuals stay informed even as systems and regulations evolve.

Support for conversations

Engaging with CPD helps individuals participate constructively in discussions with legal, risk, technology and leadership teams.

Reflection & accountability

Encourages reflection about how AI governance themes apply to one's current role and responsibilities.

CPD guidance does not imply legal/regulatory status. Institutions decide how they interpret CPD within their own frameworks.

Examples

Illustrative CPD activities related to AI governance

Examples only — institutions and organizations may define their own criteria.

Structured learning
  • Courses, workshops, modules on AI governance, risk, ethics.
  • Seminars, webinars, conferences focused on AI governance.
  • Internal training or briefings within an organization.
  • Academic offerings that expand AI governance concepts.
Self-directed activities
  • Independent study of frameworks or publications.
  • Participation in internal governance or working groups.
  • Preparing briefings/presentations for colleagues.
  • Documenting personal reflections on governance issues.

Where institutions treat activities as meeting CPD expectations, criteria are set by those institutions — not by this page.

Practice

Keeping a personal record of CPD activities

A personal CPD log can help individuals reflect or support internal reporting where applicable.

Illustrative fields

Individuals may find it useful to record:

  • Date
  • Type of activity
  • AI governance themes addressed
  • Approx. duration/effort
  • Key reflections or insights
Use of personal records

Some organizations may invite summaries as part of internal processes; in other contexts, logs may remain purely personal.

IIAIG does not prescribe a universal log format. Local requirements apply where relevant.

Status

Certification status, lapse & re-engagement

Conceptual orientation only — specific rules are set in formal policies where applicable.

Recognized achievement

Completing certification remains part of a person's record even if maintenance expectations later change.

Current status

Some contexts may define "current" certification status based on maintenance expectations.

Exam & policy orientation
Re-engagement

Institutions or organizations may define re-engagement approaches where maintenance expectations apply.

Guidance

How individuals and institutions can use this orientation

Adaptable to different sectors, educational systems and organizational structures.

Individuals
Certified individuals

Use this page to identify relevant learning activities or maintain a simple personal record.

FAQs
Institutions
Universities & law schools

Academic partners may interpret this guidance alongside academic regulations and quality frameworks.

For universities
Organizations
Corporate & institutional programs

Organizations can align CPD activities with internal learning, HR and governance initiatives.

Corporate programs
Summary

CPD as an ongoing conversation

Maintenance and CPD are continuing conversations between individuals, institutions and organizations. This page supports those conversations without replacing local rules or policy documents.

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Next steps

Connecting CPD with your context

To understand how CPD expectations apply, connect this orientation with your institutional or organizational frameworks.

Certification pathway Credential verification Discuss CPD

For specific guidance, refer to institutional/organizational documentation or contact IIAIG.