Propela connects you to visionary speakers for extraordinary live & virtual events

Propela is a speaking agency representing one-of-a-kind maverick thinkers and change-makers. For over 10 years, our roster of artists, designers, futurists and interdisciplinary experts has electrified audiences worldwide, providing illuminating and exciting conversations for major international conferences, Fortune 500 companies and world-leading brands.

Specialities: creativity, sustainability, climate action, leadership, frontier technologies, and corporate social responsibility.

 

Combining perspectives helps us see the world more clearly.

Our roster of bleeding-edge experts are available for keynotes (virtual and IRL), brand collaborations, media quotes and anywhere else you need a maverick’s point of view.

We have over 2,000 experts in our database, and below is just a snapshot of the leaders we represent.

Get in touch to find out how to connect to the brightest minds in business and creativity today.

JAMES BRIDLE
Artist, Journalist, Technologist, Best-selling Author

DR NELLY BEN HAYOUN
The Manufacturer of the Impossible, Hall of Fame Inductee, Head of Experiences @WeTransfer

LIAM YOUNG

Speculative Architect, Futurist & Technology Storyteller

PAYAL ARORA
Tech Anthropologist, Best-selling Author

RACHEL WINGFIELD
WIRED Innovation Fellow, Architectural Futurist

DOMINIC WILCOX
Inventor, Designer, Thinkerupper

MARSHMALLOW LASER FEAST Mixed Reality Mavericks, Digital Storytellers & Tech Artists

MARSHMALLOW LASER FEAST
Mixed Reality Mavericks, Digital Storytellers & Tech Artists

DR SIAN PROCTOR
The world’s first Black Female Spaceship Pilot

NICK FOSTER
Former Head of Design at Google X, Futurist

NEIL HARBISSON
World's First Cyborg, Artist, and Transpecies Activist

LUCY MCRAE Body Architect, Sci Fi Artist, Filmmaker

LUCY MCRAE
Body Architect, Sci Fi Artist, Filmmaker

GALIT ARIEL
Hyperimmersive Technofuturist

MARK ADAMS
VICE Board member and former Head of Innovation, and Marketing Guru

DANIEL LISMORE
A Living Artwork, Artist, Designer, Campaigner

MARIJE VOGELZANG
Design Revolutionary, The Grand Dame of Eating Experience

 

MISAN HARRIMAN
Activist, Oscar-nominated Director, Southbank Centre Chairman, Pioneering Photographer

Bas van Abel -  keynote speaker and the founder of the worlds most ethical mobile phone

BAS VAN ABEL
Founder of the world’s most ethical & sustainable mobile phone & Circular Designer

ALEXA CLAY
Best-selling Author, Rebel Economist, Business Hacker, Director of the Royal Society of the Art, U.S Chapter

Indy Johar keynote speaker on system change and risk

INDY JOHAR MBE
The Architect of a Better Future

VAUGHN TAN
Innovation Strategist and Uncertainty Expert

DR KATE STONE TED Global Speaker (twice), Creative Scientist, Paper Hacker, Media Provocateur

DR KATE STONE
TED Global Speaker (twice), Creative Scientist, Paper Hacker, Media Provocateur

NANJALA NYABOLA
Former human rights lawyer turned Technology Analyst and Activist

SAM BOMPAS Food Architect, Poly-sensory Storyteller

SAM BOMPAS
Food Architect, Poly-sensory Storyteller

VIKTORIA MODESTA
The world’s first Bionic Artist, Futurist, Performer, and Activist

DR LAURA HERMAN
Head of AI Research at Adobe and PhD in AI awarded by Oxford University's Internet Institute

OOBAH BUTLER
Filmmaker, Best-selling Author, and the Creator of Untruths

The Quantum Ballerina Merritt Moore is a keynote speaker

DR MERRITT MOORE
The Quantum Ballerina

PAULA ZUCCOTTI Ethnographer, Trend Forecaster, Future Archaeologist

PAULA ZUCCOTTI
Ethnographer, Trend Forecaster, Future Archaeologist

PROF. CHARLES SPENCE
Oxford Professor of the Senses, & Neurogastronomist

Moon Ribas cyborg speaker

MOON RIBAS
Cyborg, Activist, Artist

 

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