The Oxford Artificial Intelligence Summit 2025: Autonomous AI Agents



Overview

We are pleased to announce the return of the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Summit for 2025. This year's theme is 'Autonomous AI Agents: Learning from deployments (low-code and full-code)'. AI agents are amongst the hottest topics in artificial intelligence, but they also present some challenges:

  • The exact meaning of the term 'AI agents' has not been clearly defined
  • There is relatively little discussion about the real-life deployment of AI agents
  • There is a lack of clarity over best practices in deploying AI agents

This Oxford Artificial Intelligence Summit seeks to address these challenges.

We welcome both developers and non-developers. You will be divided into 'low-code' and 'full-code' cohorts. For the purposes of this Summit, 'low-code' is defined as coding assisted by large language models (LLMs), and therefore suitable for those without prior coding experience, whereas 'full-code' denotes traditional software development, where developers write the majority (or all) of the code manually, often requiring more in-depth programming knowledge and skill. This Summit fosters a spirit of community and inclusion, providing support if you need it.

We are honoured to welcome back David Knott, Chief Technology Officer for the UK Government, as the keynote speaker for 2025.

Programme details

The Summit takes the form of a hackathon. Day 1 will focus on concepts, with Day 2 introducing the challenge, to be performed in groups. You will have one week following the Summit to complete the challenge in your groups.

A number of tools will be covered in the presentation, but for the challenge itself the tools will be based on OpenAI (full-code and low-code cohorts), as well as LangChain and LlamaIndex (full-code cohort only).

Themes

The themes covered in the Summit will include the following:

●    Concepts of AI (as a background to agentic workflows)
●    Understanding autonomous AI agents
●    Agentic workflows
●    Building agents in low-code tools
●    Building agents in full-code tools
●    Use case scenarios from agent platforms
●    Best practices for AI agent deployments based on real life experiences
●    Simulate agentic workflows
●    Evaluating AI agents
●    Autonomous AI agents in production
●    Multi-agent
●    Vertical LLM agents

Note: Due to the fast-changing nature of AI, the content may be updated prior to the event.

Attending this event 

Further details will be emailed to you two weeks ahead of the Summit and will include registration information and an overview of the timetable.

Please get in touch if you have not received this information within five working days of the start date. 

In the meantime, you may wish to plan your travel: Travel information

Digital Certification

In order to be eligible for a certificate of attendance, you will need to attend the whole course. Participants who meet this criterion will be emailed after the end of the course with a link, and instructions on how to access their University of Oxford digital certificate. 

The certificate will show your name, the course title and the dates of the course you attended. You will also be able to download your certificate or share it on social media if you choose to do so.

Fees

Description Costs
Standard course fee £620.00
Friday lunch £19.25
Saturday lunch £19.25

Payment

The standard course fee includes course materials, tuition and refreshments. The fee does not include accommodation. Lunch can be purchased by selecting the lunch fee for the relevant day. 

All courses are VAT exempt.

Register immediately online 

Click the “book now” button on this webpage. Payment by credit or debit card is required.

Request an invoice

If you require an invoice for your company or personal records, please contact the course administration team. 
Payment is accepted online, by credit/debit card, or by bank transfer. Please do not send card or bank details via email.

Tutors

Ajit Jaokar

Conference Director and Speaker

Visiting Fellow, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

David Knott

Keynote Speaker

CTO, Cabinet Office, UK Gov

Mr John Alexander

Speaker

LLM Strategy Consultant and AI Developer

NB: this speaker will be joining the summit remotely

Marina Fernandez

Speaker

Digital Hive and Innovation consultant, Anglo American Plc

Anjali Jain

Speaker

Digital Solutions Architect, Metrobank

Dan James

Speaker

Founder at Jobgraph, Advisor to UK Cabinet Office and Director of AI at Ministry of Justice

Christoffer Noring

Speaker

Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

Ayşe Mutlu

Speaker

Data Scientist

Claudia Saleh

Speaker

AI Product Leader, Disney

Application

Please use the 'Book' or 'Apply' button on this page. Alternatively, please contact us to obtain an application form.

Accommodation

Although not included in the course fee, accommodation may be available at our on-site Rewley House Residential Centre. All bedrooms are en suite and decorated to a high standard, and come with tea- and coffee-making facilities, free Wi-Fi access and Freeview TV. Guests can take advantage of the excellent dining facilities and common room bar, where they may relax and network with others on the programme.

To check prices, availability and to book rooms please visit the Rewley House Residential Centre website. 

Enrolled students are entitled to discounted accommodation rates for the purpose of study, at Rewley House, and can contact the administration team for the promotional code to use for making online accommodation bookings via the website.

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Information on financial support