Speaker & Press Kit
Everything you need to book, introduce or write about Ada Parris: the full speaker pack, a one page press kit, an approved biography, the four keynote themes, selected rooms and testimonials.
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Ada Parris is an artist, futurist and author of Leadership Legacy (Wiley, 2026). She is the founder of The Presence Lab™, creator of Cyborg Shamanism™ and Source Patterns Intelligence™. Her central question: we are not in a technology crisis, we are in a listening crisis, so what becomes possible when we remember that intelligences are entangled and animate?
She has spoken at Google, Meta, Lloyds Banking Group, Unilever, NatWest, Klosters Forum, TEDx, CogX, Tate Modern, World Trade Centre Amsterdam, IAB Italia, London Interdisciplinary School and Medicine Festival. She chairs Mental Health First Aid England, is an Honorary Fellow of Arts University Plymouth, and is co-deputy chair of the IEEE AI Systems Global Flourishing Initiative.
Keynote themes
Cyborg Shamanism: Leading Alongside AI
Technology, leadership and innovation conferences
Reframing AI adoption as a question of attention, trust and listening. Delegates leave with a new frame for AI adoption, language for the cultural shift strategy documents cannot capture, and a diagnostic question every leader can apply immediately.
Cartography Is Not Home
Arts, culture and research spaces
Decolonial leadership, epistemic diversity and whose intelligence gets cited. Drawing on ongoing artistic research across Egypt, Guyana and Nigeria.
Human. Humility. Humus.
Regenerative, ecological and purpose-driven gatherings
Leading from the soil up. An embodied, memorable framework for regenerative leadership and ecological responsibility.
Who Owns Intelligence?
AI ethics, technology, futures and foresight conferences
The extractive logic underneath AI infrastructure and the question of sovereignty. A research proposition connecting ancestral intelligence to the most urgent questions in responsible AI.
Formats
Keynote · 45 to 60 minutes, main stage, one idea
Extended session · 90 minutes with structured audience dialogue
Immersive experience · Multi-day, with field recordings, material objects and structured practice
Custom programmes, moderated conversations and fireside formats are available on request.
Selected rooms
Google · Meta · Lloyds Banking Group · Unilever · NatWest · Klosters Forum · TEDx · CogX · Tate Modern · World Trade Centre Amsterdam · IAB Italia · London Interdisciplinary School · Medicine Festival
What bookers say
"Adah gave a fresh perspective the audience really held onto, and fired us all up to think differently, out of the day-to-day detail."
· Fiona Couper, Chief Marketing Officer, VCCP
"Adah connects across topics to put together the bigger picture. Immediate, actionable learnings and real food for thought. Invaluable."
· Andy Postert, Google
"Adah brought fresh thinking and unconventional exercises, and pushed us all to reflect on what really matters. So much positive feedback from the team."
· Barbara Ryl, Global Brand Manager, Unilever
Booking and press contact
Speaking enquiries: adah@adahparris.com
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