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).