Quick facts
- Date and time: Saturday, November 21, 2026, 11:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. EST (America/New_York)
- Where: Online
- Cost: $183.23 USD, on sale
- Organizer: Packt Publishing Limited. Instructor listed: Nacho (jasperan) Martínez Rincón, AI Engineer and Developer Advocate at Oracle.
- Registration: On sale
- Official listing: Eventbrite listing
What it is
A four-hour hands-on workshop on moving from a stateless agent to a memory-augmented one. The core syllabus, taught with the Oracle Agent Memory Package and Oracle AI Database, includes typed memory stores (conversational, knowledge base, workflow, toolbox, entity, summary, and tool log), persistent threads, automatic memory extraction, and a “skillbox/toolbox” pattern that retrieves tools on demand instead of stuffing every definition into the prompt. Labs and notebooks are promised.
One later section of the same listing, headed “What you will work on,” lists career-planning artifacts (an FDE self-assessment, a 90-day career action plan, and similar items) that do not match the memory syllabus. That looks like a paste-in from another page and should be read with care.
Who it's for
Engineers already building agents who want a structured memory architecture and are willing to work in Oracle’s package and database.
Worth it if / Skip it if
- Worth it if $183 for a Saturday lab on persistent agent memory is a fair trade, and Oracle’s tooling is acceptable.
- Skip it if you wanted a vendor-neutral course, or the mismatched “what you will work on” list makes you distrust the listing.
Verdict
Worth it for agent engineers who will use Oracle’s memory stack. The main syllabus is detailed and on-topic. Confirm the lab materials on the page before you pay, because part of the listing does not belong with this workshop.
Source: Eventbrite, “Is Designing and Building Memory for AI Agents Worth Attending? (Online, November 21, 2026)”
