We bring the best practitioners of the German tech ecosystem together, so CTOs, leaders and their teams adopt the shift fast, safely and to their advantage.
Fabian Wesner (ex-CTO Rocket Internet) guiding a CTO group
The wave -
Let’s catch it together.
Agents already write, test and ship. Nobody has to paddle out alone: grab a board, join the people who’ve ridden it, and learn in one or two days what took them a year.
Why alphalist. 1,200 CTOs, 30 events a year, one big network.
We host code.talks
17 years running. 3500 attendees who join to learn from the best.
CTOs trust us
4 Cities. 4 Dinners. One Community.
We believe in the power of sharing
SVP Engineering at HelloFresh shares his experience when implementing agentic practices
We have no meta interest
We are independent and have nothing to sell except a great experience
1,200
CTOs in the community
curated, invite-only
Germany’s no. 1 CTO community.
For over a decade we’ve connected the people who lead engineering at Zalando, SumUp, Picnic, Check24 and hundreds of scale-ups. Our trainers come out of this network, not out of a catalogue.
30
events a year
dinners, summit, bootcamps, code.talks
We run rooms for a living.
CTO Dinners, the CTO Summit and code.talks with 3,000 developers. We know how to get senior people talking honestly, and how to turn that into something you can take home.
0
sponsors on stage
100 % sponsor-free
Practitioners, not vendors.
Every trainer runs agentic teams themselves. Nobody sells you a tool. What you hear has been tested in production, including the parts that didn’t work.
What makes a bootcamp. Three things we don’t compromise on.
Real, tested knowledge.
Hands-on blocks on real codebases and real org charts. You leave with working setups, templates and decisions, not slides.
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Practitioner trainers only
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Mostly hands-on
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No sponsors, no pitches
Peers with the same problem.
Small groups of people at your level, with the same shift to master and the will to do it. The conversations between blocks are half the value.
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Max. 50 participants
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Curated by role and level
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Dinner included
The best network after.
A bootcamp doesn’t end at 18:00. You join a group of people you can call next month, and a community that meets 30 times a year.
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Alumni Slack channel
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Access to the alphalist network
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Invites to CTO Dinners
Our bootcamps. Pick the one for your role.
3 formats · Berlin · Hamburg
DEV Bootcamp · Berlin · 24 Nov 2026 · 1 day
Building the Agentic R&D Organization.
How Product, Design and Engineering work when everyone can build. Come as a team, leave with one operating model.
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Product teams: PM, design, engineers
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Four hands-on blocks on one product
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Team ticket for 3 seats
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€999
CTO Bootcamp · Hamburg · 2 & 3 Dec 2026 · 2 days
The Agentic Engineering CTO Bootcamp.
Two days for CTOs and VPs: AI strategy, org design, build vs. buy, security and how to roll agents out across your engineering org.
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CTOs, VP Engineering, Heads of
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50 seats, peer-level only
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Summit-style dinner on day one
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€2,799
CxO Bootcamp · Hamburg · 20 Jan 2027 · 1 day
From Level 1 AI user to AI builder.
One day for founders and executives who ask AI questions and want to start building with it. No code required, real output guaranteed.
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CEOs, founders, C-level
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German and English
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Bring your own use case
from
€2,999
Not sure which one? Talk to us.
Fifteen minutes with the team. We’ll tell you honestly which bootcamp fits your role and your team, or whether none does yet.