Richmond Alake

Richmond Alake, Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle, brings experience in developer advocacy and memory engineering. He argues agent failures stem from memory, not models. He compares file systems and databases for agent memory. He explains skills as SOPs and outlines the memory lifecycle, security trade offs, and how continuous learning will merge agent and training loops.

Richmond Alake, Oracle's AI DevEx lead and creator of the MemoRiz library, is a leading voice on agent memory. He describes why memory engineering deserves its own discipline. He demos a memory-aware financial agent that runs vector, graph, spatial, and relational search in one query. He explains controlled forgetting, four human memory types mapped to agents, and why databases beat files in production.