The Oxford Agentic Bootcamp

​Most people are still using AI like a search engine - asking it questions, one at a time. This is the day you learn to build systems that do the work for you.

​The Oxford Agentic Bootcamp is a practical, hands-on day for people who want to put agentic AI to work in their organisation. It assumes you already use AI day to day. It doesn't assume you can code - you won't need to.

​In a small group, you'll build and run a working agentic workflow - something that does a real job in your work - and leave with a clear picture of exactly what it takes to roll one out where you work.

​What we'll cover

• ​How we got here - and the real difference between prompting and agentic systems

• ​The essentials - running lean sprints and pinning down the job to be done

• ​The tools that matter - Claude, Cowork, Claude Code, Codex, and where each one fits

• ​Finding your use case - examples by industry, plus a hands-on discovery exercise

• ​Building a system - designing skills, then a multi-agent workflow, and where to keep a human in the loop

• ​Implementing it for real - the security and stakeholder questions that decide whether it sticks

• ​What's coming next

​You'll leave with

​A working agentic workflow you built yourself, and a concrete plan for introducing agentic AI into your organisation.

​Your hosts

​Drummond Gilbert, who tutors in AI in Management at Saïd Business School, runs Oxford's Practical AI meetup, together with Dr Emine Gokce Phillips (AI Centre for Business), Josh Lawman (Founder & AI Engineer, Adder) and Jonathan Waddingham (CPO, ex-JustGiving).