Our memories play a critical role in shaping how we interact with the world, understand ourselves, and connect with others. This talk will introduce HippoCamera, a smartphone-based tool inspired by how the brain supports memory, designed to enhance real-world episodic recollection by guiding users to create and review personalized reminiscence cues. Here, I will cover the scientific research demonstrating the benefits of HippoCamera. In addition, I will go over the commercialization path of HippoCamera thus far, with the ultimate goal of providing an effective, accessible, and easy-to-use solution for those looking to maintain memory.

Bryan Hong is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow researching memory and aging at the University of Toronto with Dr. Morgan Barense in the Department of Psychology. Broadly, his research investigates the cognitive mechanisms underlying our ability to encode, organize, retain, and retrieve information. In addition, he is the Co-Founder and Chief Science/Product Officer of Dynamic Memory Solutions Inc., where he has been working on the development and validation of HippoCamera, a smartphone app that leverages principles from cognitive psychology and neuroscience to help mitigate memory loss for events from our day-to-day lives.