Tech Meetup: The Life Cycle of an AI Agent

Our 4 Technical Presentations

1.) AI Agents: Raising and Caring for Them

AI agents think, plan, and act in autonomous loops—and can achieve a surprising amount in the process. But like any growing child, they need clear boundaries: without careful conditioning and validation, they can quickly become digital problem children. This presentation explores possibilities, risks—and how to guide your agents through the “terrible twos.”

Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hanno Homann, Field of Expertise: Chair in Automation, Data Science, and AI

2.) RAG Fundamentals: Giving the Teenager a Memory

An AI agent without its own knowledge is like a teenager who forgets every morning what happened yesterday. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) gives it a long-term memory—access to documents and experiential knowledge instead of just what stuck during training. The presentation covers the fundamentals, chunking, and ranking, and uses real-world examples to highlight the pitfalls.

Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Christian Will, Process Informatics/Automation Technology

3.) From the “terrible twos” to the spotlight: a hands-on agent system

After covering the fundamentals of developing and controlling AI agents, we’ll show how these concepts can be translated into a functioning system. Using our agent-based chat system, we’ll demonstrate the architecture, decision-making logic, and interaction in practice. The agent will even take the floor itself.

Speaker: Martin Oesterle, Corporate Business Development at ALMEX GmbH

4.) Coming of Age: AI Avatars Give Agents a Face

After training, memory, and initial appearances, the AI agent is still missing one thing: a face that people actually want to interact with. AI avatars give it facial expressions, a voice, and charisma—transforming the invisible chat partner into an interlocutor who listens, explains, or advises. The presentation shows how language models, lip-syncing, and real-time rendering come together to create a convincing avatar—and where its use in customer service, education, and public transportation is already a reality today.

Speaker: Nico Schulz, Founder and Managing Director of Neovator UG