Name: The Oxford Agentic Coding Bootcamp
Start: 2026-11-26T09:00:00.000+00:00
End: 2026-11-26T17:00:00.000+00:00
Location: Worcester College

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Drummond Gilbert

AI can write the code for you now. What most people are missing is everything around it - getting it online, making it save information, and knowing it actually works. 

This is the day you learn how software actually gets built, explained in plain English.

The Oxford Agentic Coding Bootcamp is a practical, hands-on day for people with an idea they'd like to build - a tool for their team, or a product they want to test. 

You don't need any coding experience or technical background. Think of it as sitting next to a senior engineer who does the typing, and explains what's happening as they go.

You'll build all day, with AI writing the code and three of us in the room to help. Every session is show, then do: one of us builds the step on the big screen, then you do it on your own laptop with help on hand. 

The aim is your own website live on the internet by lunch, and a first working version of your own idea by the close - and whatever you build is yours to keep working on.

A real understanding of how software gets built, and everything you built on the day, in accounts you own.

Drummond Gilbert, who tutors in AI in Management at Saïd Business School and runs Oxford's Practical AI meetup, together with Jonathan Waddingham (CPO, ex-JustGiving) and Mike Bailey (CEO, Coppice Labs).