Advanced Topics in Automation and RPA, 2

Class Materials

• Link: A background reading on the progress made and challenges faced on the use of agentic workflows in companies.
• Link: EYARC Experience Platform Ethics and Governance materials log in materials.
• Link: Cybersecurity materials relating to Lakera's Gandalf Challenge. Can you hack the LLM?
• No slides are available for this class.

• Suggested Pre-Class Preparation

  1. You should aim to complete the governance and ethics materials on the EYARC experience platform, and be prepared to discuss some of the key governance and ethical issues around agentic workflows in the next class (this can be done asynchronously and remotely).
  2. You should also have made progress on the team automation challenge, with a base workflow created prior to this class.

• Class Plan

  1. This class is set aside for teams to work on their RPA and Agentic workflow design projects, with the goal of making significant progress on the design and development of the workflow. I will be available to provide feedback and guidance as needed, teams should work to make significant progress during this class.
  2. The biggest challenges left for teams are considering how an agent may learn, governance and logging issues, and design choices for how the agent will interact with the RPA components of the workflow (the check-in suggests many teams have made significant progress here). We will discuss these topics as they come up in class and teams should be making progress on these issues during this class.
  3. There are no slides for this class, the class will instead be in a team workshop format with my role being to highlight where in your check-in submissions you may want to focus your efforts during the workshop and provide feedback as you work.