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The Oxford Agentic Bootcamp — Cohort 1

The Oxford Agentic Bootcamp — Cohort 1

Tuesday, 21 July 20269:00–16:30St Anne's College, Oxford

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Cohort 1 of the Oxford Agentic Bootcamp ran on Tuesday 21 July 2026 at St Anne's College, Oxford. Sixteen founders, directors and senior professionals spent the day building and running agentic AI workflows against real tasks from their own work, across three facilitated build cycles. No coding was involved.

Date
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Time
9:00–16:30
Venue
St Anne's College, 56 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HS
Capacity
Capped at 25
Who it is for
  • Founders, directors and C-suite
  • Consultants and senior public-sector professionals
  • Oxford AI executive-education graduates
What you will build
  • A working agentic pipeline running against a real task
  • A review step, so the pipeline compounds rather than single-shots
  • A written recipe for rebuilding and extending it afterwards

Part of The Oxford Agentic Bootcamp.

16attendees, Cohort 1, 21 July 2026
3facilitated build cycles across the day
1real task each, brought from their own work

This event has run

The Oxford Agentic Bootcamp — Cohort 1 took place on Tuesday, 21 July 2026 at St Anne's College, Oxford. The next cohort runs the same format — details below.

Cohort 2 — 9 September 2026All events

How the day ran

  1. 09:00

    Registration and coffee

  2. 09:15

    Welcome and framing

    The shift from prompting to orchestrating, and the one ask — bring a real task.

  3. 09:35

    Anatomy of an agent pipeline

    A scout, drafter and reviewer pipeline built live in front of the room.

  4. 10:15

    Build one — your own task, first pass

  5. 11:30

    Guest session: Codex and technical debt

    John Maxwell Hobbs, Vanguard Visions, on using agentic coding tools daily.

  6. 12:15

    Build two — add a review step

  7. 13:00

    Lunch

  8. 13:45

    Guest session: AI coding in practice

  9. 14:15

    Build three — the real task, properly

  10. 15:30

    Showcase and debrief

    Every attendee ran what they had built and named what they would use it for.

  11. 16:00

    Making it stick

  12. 16:20

    Wrap and networking

On the day

Attendees working at long cabaret-style tables with laptops in a bright, vaulted seminar room at St Anne's College, Oxford, during the first Oxford Agentic Bootcamp.
A registration desk draped in a St Anne's College, University of Oxford tablecloth, with sign-in sheets laid out ready for arrivals.

Questions

Has the Oxford Agentic Bootcamp run before?

Yes. Cohort 1 ran on Tuesday 21 July 2026 at St Anne's College, Oxford, with sixteen attendees working through three facilitated build cycles. Cohort 2 runs on Wednesday 9 September 2026.

Can I still join this cohort?

No — this date has passed. The next cohort is the one to book; it runs the same format with the same cap of roughly twenty-five people.

What did people actually build?

Each attendee built against a real task from their own work rather than a set exercise, so the pipelines varied — research and drafting workflows, review and quality-check steps, and internal reporting tasks. The common shape was a scout step, a drafting step and a reviewer step handing off to each other.