POSTPONED: Enriching Cultural Heritage with Artificial Intelligence

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2:30 PM - 5:00 PM CDT

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October 27, 2025

POSTPONED: Enriching Cultural Heritage with Artificial Intelligence

Name: POSTPONED:%20Enriching%20Cultural%20Heritage%20with%20Artificial%20Intelligence
Start: 2025-10-27T19:30:00.347Z
End: 2025-10-27T22:00:00.347Z
Location: Library of Congress

# AI Education

# AI Literacy

# Museums

# LAM

This event has been postponed. We will share the new date as soon as it is confirmed.

Event Summary

Join DC-area cultural heritage organizations to explore how AI can enhance engagement with audiences while strengthening the authenticity and relevancy of library, archives and museum (LAM) collections. The OpenAI Forum, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, the DC Chapter of AI4LAM and Ask Mona, will highlight the ways historical and arts institutions can leverage AI to make exhibits more interactive, accessible and discoverable for audiences. It will also lay the groundwork for more cultural heritage conversations and collaborations with AI tied to the country’s 250th anniversary and AI4LAM’s 2026 annual meeting in DC next year.

Our program unfolds in three dynamic segments:

Presentations: Leaders from the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art AI4LAM (Libraries, Archives, and Museums), and Ask Mona will share their most inspiring use cases—showcasing how AI is being applied to make collections newly discoverable and understandable to both scholars and the public.

Panel Discussion: All presenters will come together in a moderated conversation to reflect on the opportunities and challenges of bringing AI into cultural heritage institutions, and to exchange perspectives across disciplines.

Live Demonstration: We close with an interactive tour of the Library of Congress’s permanent Thomas Jefferson Library collection—temporarily augmented with AI—offering participants a first-hand look at how technology can animate and reframe historic archives. Specifically, we will engage with the following historical artifacts from this archive:

Phyllis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Thomas Jefferson’s copy of The Federalist

The Dunlap Broadside (first printing of the Declaration of Independence)

American Entomology by Thomas Say

Speakers

Natalie Cone

Forum Community Architect @ OpenAI

Abigail Potter

Senior Innovation Specialist @ Library of Congress

Keith Krut

Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, and Innovation @ National Gallery of Art

Marion Carre

CEO and Co-Founder @ Ask Mona

Natalie Buda Smith

Director of Digital Strategy & Artificial Intelligence, Innovatio @ Library of Congress

Agenda

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

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Break

Doors Open

Arrive early to save your seat.

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Stage 17:30 PM - 8:00 PM GMT

3:00 PM

3:05 PM

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Opening / Closing

Welcome Remarks

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Stage 18:00 PM - 8:05 PM GMT

3:05 PM

4:00 PM

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Presentation

AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Leaders from the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Secretary General of Libraries, Archives, and Museums,, and Ask Mona will share their most inspiring use cases showcasing how AI is being applied to make collections newly discoverable to both scholars and the public.

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Stage 18:05 PM - 9:00 PM GMT

4:00 PM

4:35 PM

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Roundtable

Beyond Digitization: How AI Can Make Objects of Cultural Heritage More Accessible

Panel Discussion: All presenters will come together in a moderated conversation to reflect on the opportunities and challenges of bringing AI into cultural heritage institutions, and to exchange perspectives across disciplines. We will explore how AI can make objects of cultural heritage more accessible to the public and the research community.

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Stage 19:00 PM - 9:35 PM GMT

4:25 PM

4:30 PM

CDT

Break

Walk to Thomas Jefferson's Library

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Stage 19:25 PM - 9:30 PM GMT

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

CDT

Breakout Session

Interactive History: Re-engaging the Thomas Jefferson Library with AI

We close the event with an interactive tour of the Thomas Jefferson collection to offer participants a first-hand look at how technology can animate and reframe historic archives.

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Stage 19:30 PM - 10:00 PM GMT

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Event has finished

2:30 PM - 5:00 PM CDT (Event time zone)

October 27, 2025

Location

Library of Congress , Washington, D.C. , United States

Organized by

OpenAI Forum

Hybrid

Event has finished

2:30 PM - 5:00 PM CDT (Event time zone)

October 27, 2025

Location

Library of Congress , Washington, D.C. , United States

Organized by

OpenAI Forum