Practical AI sessions for accounting conferences, firm events and professional development days. Plain English, live demonstrations, and prompts your team can use on Monday.
Adam Franklin is an AI keynote speaker for accountants and advisory firms, based on the Sunshine Coast and speaking across Australia. Over 21 years he has delivered more than 250 keynotes and 100 workshops, and he is lead trainer for AI Edge, running AI masterclasses built for accountants. His sessions are practical and jargon-free, tailored to how a firm actually works, from client work and reporting to advisory and admin, and the room leaves with prompt stacks they can use straight away.
Adam Franklin is an AI keynote speaker for accounting and advisory firms. He focuses on the repetitive, time-heavy work in a practice, from drafting and summarising to research and client communication, and is direct about data security and what should never go into an AI tool. He is lead trainer for AI Edge, an AI program built for professional services firms.
Shaped to the room: public practice, business advisory, bookkeeping or a firm leadership group.
Draft client emails, queries and explanations of complex positions in plain English, fast.
Turn the numbers into clear management-report commentary clients actually read.
Free compliance time so the firm can do more of the advisory work clients value most.
Where AI helps, where it must not give tax or financial advice, and how to keep client data safe.
Real AI on screen, on real practice tasks, not slides about AI.
An accounting-specific prompt stack the room keeps and uses the next morning.
Adam's flagship session, tailored for practice. The promise: put 10 hours back in your team's week with AI, on the admin and client work that crowds out higher-value advisory time.

"Adam was a fantastic facilitator for a recent AI Edge workshop. Super knowledgeable, helpful, with fantastic workbook resources and ongoing support."
"I've used AI for a while, but this helped me focus on what's important and what works. I'd been fumbling around teaching myself for far too long. Very worthwhile."
"Streets ahead of other professionals in my field. I can finally step away from the admin that bogs me and my team down every day."
Because he works with practices through AI Edge, pitches to how a firm actually runs, and is straight about client confidentiality, so a cautious room leaves reassured.
Yes. Adam delivers AI keynotes and 100+ workshops built for accountants, bookkeepers and advisory firms, and runs AI Edge masterclasses for accountants. Every session is shaped to the practice audience and how a firm actually works before he walks on stage.
Yes. Adam leads with guardrails: where AI helps with admin, drafting and research, and where giving tax or financial advice stays firmly with the qualified accountant. The aim is productivity inside the rules, not around them.
Always. Adam researches your firm or conference and the room's AI experience, then tailors the examples and prompt stack. A compliance-focused session looks different from one for a business advisory team.
Yes. A common format is a keynote followed by a half-day or full-day workshop for a smaller group, where the team actually sets up and uses the tools. The keynote plants the idea; the workshop does the installation.
Adam's AI keynotes for accountants start from $10,000 +GST, and conference breakouts from $8,000 +GST. Hands-on workshops for accounting and advisory teams are priced on format and length. Every event is quoted individually after a short call, so the fee reflects the audience, the format and the level of tailoring. The fastest way to a firm quote is the contact form or a brief call.
Adam is based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, and speaks nationally across Australia. He travels interstate for accounting conferences, associations and in-house firm events.
Tell Adam about your firm, conference and date. He'll respond directly.
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