CxO Bootcamp · Hamburg · 20 January 2027
Most leaders are Level 1 AI users: they ask AI questions. Only 4 % are Level 2 AI builders: they delegate real work to agents they built themselves. This day takes you from one to the other. No code. Just your language and your ability to set goals.
Limited to 30 leaders.
Learn. Concepts in the morning, with Oliver.
Wed, 20 Jan 2027
09:00–17:00, dinner with the group after. A short prep webinar two weeks before.
Hamburg
Venue announced soon. Breakfast, lunch, coffee and drinks all day included.
No tech knowledge needed
In English. Technical coaches at your side, 1 per 8 participants.
The difference is not how much you use AI. It is whether AI works for you while you do something else.
Level 1
AI user
You open a chat, ask a question, get an answer, copy it somewhere. Useful, but every task starts from zero and you do all the work around it.
95 % of knowledge workers stop here.
Level 2
AI builder
You give an agent context, rules and a goal. It reads your files, works through the steps, comes back with a result. You review and decide. The agent keeps the knowledge and continues tomorrow.
4 % of executives can do this.
This day turns a Level 1 AI user into a Level 2 AI builder.
AI stopped being a chat window. It can now plan, execute and run work on its own. Leaders who understand this first will decide how their companies use it. Everyone else will be told.
95%
of knowledge workers still use AI as a simple chat and leave most of its potential untouched.
Section · AI Proficiency Report, 2026
1 in 3
executives can explain what an AI agent is.
BCG · AI at Work, 2026
4%
can build one themselves. After this day, you are one of them.
BCG · AI at Work, 2026
Fun part:
We asked Claude to draw this. Took less than 5 minutes.
Working with agents that really understand your context is not only speeding up things, but is actually enjoyable, because ideas can become immediate reality without the hard work in between.
fig. 01 — your day, agent-assisted
made with Claude
Most leaders have the same three reservations. We built the day around them.
You want to be part of Level 2? Then this day is for you.
YOU ARE HERE ↓
Level 1 · AI user
WHERE YOU’LL BE ↓
Level 2 · AI builder
You’re a Level 1 AI user if:
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You use ChatGPT or similar, mostly as a chat.
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You could not explain to your board what an AI agent actually does.
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AI keeps landing on your desk as a budget or strategy question, and you decide with a gut feeling.
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You’ve never built anything with AI yourself.
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You are a CEO, COO, CFO, CMO, managing director or founder.
Probably not for you if:
You are a CTO or engineering leader. That’s our CTO Bootcamp.
You already lead your own agents. Welcome, Level 2. See you at the dinner.
You’d rather send someone from your team. The jump only works if you make it yourself.
alphalist is Germany’s no. 1 CTO community and organizer of the second largest independent developer conference. We take what its 1,200+ CTOs and thousands of developers have learned about working with AI agents and translate it into a one day bootcamp. No IT knowledge required, just leadership.
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Limited to 30 leaders.
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1 coach per 8 participants during setup and build.
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Confidential, feel-good atmosphere.
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0 sponsors or vendors.
Powered by alphalist, Germany’s #1 CTO network.
Oliver Radtke
Host & Trainer
AI advisor, former COO Gruner + Jahr / RTL. Has turned CEOs, CFOs and investors into Level 2 AI builders in his ai_workbench program.
Guest speaker
Guest session
From a leading AI lab · to be announced.
Technical coaches
×3 on site
At your side during setup and the build session, so nobody gets stuck.
Nobody becomes an AI builder by listening. So the day has one center: you build. The morning gives you the concepts, the afternoon puts them in your hands, the evening puts them in perspective.
01
Learn
09:00 · What “agentic” means and how to brief an AI.
02
Build
13:30 · Your own agent, on your own data.
03
Lead
15:30 · What it means for your role and your team.
08:00
Doors open
Coffee, technical setup with coaches
09:00
Setting the stage
Tobi & Oliver
09:30
The agentic mode: from chatting to delegating
Oliver Radtke — What “agentic” means and why it changes everything. How to brief an AI like an employee, what context it needs, where the limits are.
10:45
Your data, your AI: context, memory, guardrails
Oliver & coaches
12:15
Lunch
13:30
Build your agent. Connect your data.
Hands-on · 1 coach per 8 participants — Your own project, from your own working life. You set up your first agent, connect it to your data and watch it work.
14:30
What did I build, and why?
Small groups
15:30
What does this mean for my role?
Small groups — Step back. What does this mean for your role, your strategy, your team? What do you do differently tomorrow morning?
16:00
Guest session
Speaker from a leading AI lab
17:00
Wind-down
18:00
Dinner with the group
Networking, dinner speech
Being an AI builder changes how you speak about AI, because you’ve done it yourself.
01
Your first own agent
Set up on your laptop, built around a task from your actual week. It keeps working after the day ends.
02
A concept you can explain
You can tell your board, your CTO and your team what agentic AI is, what it is not, and where it belongs in your company.
03
A setup that stays safe
You know which controls exist, what the AI may access and how to keep your data in your hands.
04
A peer group
20 to 30 leaders at the same point as you. You see where they stand, what they need and what they got wrong, and you keep in touch.
ALL-IN TICKET
€2,999
net, per person
One day. From AI user to AI builder. Everything included.
Date
Wed, 20 January 2027 · 09:00–17:00
Location
Hamburg · venue announced soon
30 seats · first come, first served · invoice on booking
Included
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Full-day program with Oliver Radtke and Tobi Schlottke
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Guest session with a speaker from a leading AI lab
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Technical coaches during setup and build, 1 per 8 participants
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Preparation webinar two weeks before, plus setup checklist
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Breakfast, lunch, coffee and drinks all day
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Dinner with the group in the evening
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Proven concepts from Germany’s no. 1 CTO community
Before you book.
Who is this for?
I have never worked with developer tools. Is that a problem?
What do I need to bring?
Why English?
Can I send someone from my team instead?
What if I’m already a Level 2 AI builder?
You know how much easier your job gets when the people who sign off on AI have built something with it themselves. This day turns Level 1 AI users into Level 2 AI builders. Forward it.
COPY & FORWARD
“Hey, this might be interesting for you: a one-day AI bootcamp where you build your own agent, no coding. It’s from the CTO community I know well and which is trustworthy. I think it’d be a good fit for you and the day is well spent. Would make our AI conversations a lot easier. Take a look: bootcamps.alphalist.com/cxo”
alphalist GmbH · A format by alphalist and Oliver Radtke