How Memory Works, from the Human Brain to AI Agents
AI agent memory sounds complicated until you realize there is already a perfect example of it: your own brain. Each type and technique of agent memory matched to the part of the brain it mirrors — then shown at work in a real agentic system in production: how it decides what to remember, how it recalls the right thing at the right moment, and how it forgets the rest.
Not a lab demo — the agentic system Alina and her team run in production at Storytel, the audiobook platform used by millions.
AI agent memory might sound complicated — until you realize there is already a perfect example of it, and it is a human brain.
That is the whole idea behind this keynote: agent memory becomes easy to understand the moment you compare it to your own. Alina takes the different types and techniques of AI agent memory and matches each one to the part of the brain it mirrors, so instead of learning abstract concepts you simply recognize how your own mind already works.
Then you see how it works in a real agentic system running in production, with these techniques in action: how it decides what to remember, how it recalls the right thing at the right moment, and how it forgets the rest.