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# Context Engineering: How machines remember and forget


- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

Context Engineering is the art of shaping what an AI model knows at any moment by managing how information enters, persists, or fades from its working memory. In this session, we explore how machine learning systems “remember” through state objects, notes, and retrieval—and how they “forget” using compression, selection, and context limits. We’ll walk through real-world agent patterns that balance personalization with privacy, performance, and relevance. Participants will learn practical techniques to design memory that feels intentional, evolving, and human-aware.


## Speaker

### [Emre Okcular](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@emre-okcular)

Solutions Architect at OpenAI


## Related talks at this congress

- [Context Engineering Kung Fu](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1410-context-engineering) — Carl Lapierre
- [Building World-Aware Robots with Agent Memory and Context Graphs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1746-building-world-aware) — Zaid Zaim
- [AI Agents are Only as Smart as their Context: Building a Real-Time Context Engine at Intuit](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1736-ai-agents-are-only) — Bharat Patel
- [Proactive AI That Doesn’t Annoy Users: Building Context-Aware Notification Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1672-proactive-ai-that) — Raju Dandigam Dandigam

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