# The People's LAB: AI, Storytelling & the Future from Queens

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**Date:** March 16, 2026 · 10:30 PM  
**Location:** Hilton Austin Downtown / Salon D  
**Format:** Panel  
**Track:** Culture  
**Reviews:** 0

## Speakers

- **Loren Hammonds** — Head of Documentary
- **Aziz Isham** — Executive Director
- **Jasmin Askew** — Program Manager
- **Gabo Arora** — Director

What if the next great tech lab wasn’t in Silicon Valley—but in Queens? This panel explores how cultural institutions like the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) — the first museum in the U.S. dedicated to the moving image—can lead public innovation. MoMI LAB, a bold new initiative, puts artists and storytellers at the center of exploring how AI, XR, and emerging tools can shape more ethical, imaginative civic futures. In one of the world’s most diverse communities, artists, technologists, and funders are working to shape technology around public values—not private gain.

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