The Oxford Agentic Bootcamp
One day in Oxford. You leave having built and run a working agentic AI workflow on a real task from your own work.
What it is
The Oxford Agentic Bootcamp is a one-day, in-person course in Oxford for business leaders. Attendees bring a real task from their own work and leave having built and run a working agentic AI workflow against it. Cohorts are capped at roughly 25 people, the format is hands-on rather than lecture-led, and no coding is required.
Last updated 22 July 2026
What you leave with
- A working agentic pipeline built against your own real task, running by the end of the day
- The pattern behind it — scout, drafter, reviewer — and how to apply it to the next task
- A clear sense of where the human judgement stays, and where the grunt work goes
- A room of senior peers working on the same problem, and their contact details
The format
The day runs on one idea: most people are still using AI the way they used Google in 2004 — one question, one tab. That is fine, and it is not the interesting part.
The interesting part is orchestration. Not one AI answering a question, but a small team of narrow steps handing off to each other — a scout that gathers, a drafter that produces, a reviewer that checks. Each one has a job. None of them is magic. Put together, the part of your work that used to take a morning takes a fraction of it, and the judgement call still lands with you.
So the day is built around three build cycles rather than three talks. You get to a rough working pass before the first break, add a review step before lunch, and spend the afternoon applying it properly to the task you actually came with. Guest speakers sit between the builds and feed straight back into them. No block is more than twenty-five minutes of anyone talking at you.
You leave with the thing running, and with the pattern, which is the part that transfers.
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Questions
What is the Oxford Agentic Bootcamp?
A one-day, in-person, hands-on course in Oxford where business leaders build and run a working agentic AI workflow on a real task from their own work. Cohorts are capped at roughly twenty-five people and no coding is required.
Do I need to be technical?
No. The day is built for operators, not engineers — founders, directors and consultants. If you can use a spreadsheet and have used a chatbot, you have enough. Everything is facilitated in the room, and the point of the small cohort is that nobody gets left stuck on tooling.
What does "agentic" actually mean here?
Most people use AI one question at a time — one prompt, one tab. Agentic means several narrow AI steps handed off to each other in a pipeline: a scout that gathers, a drafter that produces, a reviewer that checks. The shift is from prompting to orchestrating.
What do I need to bring?
One real task from your own work that currently costs you meaningful time, plus a laptop. The task is what you build against all day, so bringing a genuine one matters more than any preparation.
Where in Oxford is it held?
At an Oxford college — Cohort 1 ran at St Anne's College in Seminar Room 10, set up cabaret-style so people can work in small groups. The exact venue is confirmed on each event's own page.
How many people are in the room?
Roughly twenty-five, capped. The size is deliberate: the day is facilitated, not lectured, which stops working above about that number.