Oxford Agentic: Second Brain Bootcamp
Your AI has read the whole internet. It has never met you. Spend one day fixing that, and leave with a second brain that works like your own chief of staff.
A hands-on bootcamp for business leaders, founders and consultants who already use AI every day. No coding needed.
Why it matters
Your AI starts from zero every time. Give it your context once and it stops asking.
A chief of staff. It briefs you each morning, drafts in your voice and remembers what you decided, and why.
Company memory is the next edge. Teams relearn old decisions, and knowledge walks out when people leave. AI agents are only as good as the memory they share.
You'll leave with
A working second brain on your own material, already doing a real job for you
A clear blueprint for giving your team or company one
Then the museum
The day ends with an optional after hours guided tour at 5pm of the Pitt Rivers Museum: how people have kept memory and passed on skills for thousands of years. The original second brains.
Your hosts
Drummond Gilbert - tutor in AI in Management at Saïd Business School, runs Oxford's Practical AI meetup.
Adrian Shedden - fintech lawyer turned serial founder who built the legislative blueprint that let Monzo and Starling launch without a banking licence. Now runs his business as one human with teams of AI agents.
Glenn Smith - twenty years putting AI into production, from FX market-making at UBS and Barclays to advising HSBC on AI strategy. Two startup exits. Now runs two AI companies built on proprietary memory systems.
Adam Martin - founding CTO with exits behind him and a Cambridge master's in computing. Builds memory systems where teams of humans and agents share one brain.
Quotes from previous bootcamps
Kirsten Samuel (CEO, Kamwell) - "Best, most practical AI session I have attended to date - highly recommend it!"
Lu Yan (DfE) - "I walked away with a fully functional agentic workflow and a concrete plan to roll it out."
Gareth English - "Make sure you don't miss this next time it's on."
Dr Zeynep Hizir - "I left with more than ideas. I left with something I could apply the following week."