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
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
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
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
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 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
NANJALA NYABOLA
Former human rights lawyer turned Technology Analyst and Activist
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
DR MERRITT MOORE
The Quantum Ballerina
PAULA ZUCCOTTI
Ethnographer, Trend Forecaster, Future Archaeologist
PROF. CHARLES SPENCE
Oxford Professor of the Senses, & Neurogastronomist
MOON RIBAS
Cyborg, Activist, Artist