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AI keynotes for accountants and advisory firms.

Practical AI sessions for accounting conferences, firm events and professional development days. Plain English, real examples, and prompts your team can use on Monday.

  • 250+ keynotes and 100+ workshops over 21 years, and lead trainer for AI Edge
  • Delivers AI Edge masterclasses built for accountants
  • Tailored to practice: client work, reporting, advisory, admin
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Adam Franklin delivering an AI keynote to accountants

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 AI resources 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.

Built for accounting audiences

AI that fits how a practice runs.

Shaped to the room: public practice, business advisory, bookkeeping or a firm leadership group.

01

Clear client comms

Draft client emails, queries and explanations of complex positions in plain English, fast.

02

Reporting & commentary

Turn the numbers into clear management-report commentary clients actually read.

03

More advisory capacity

Free compliance time so the firm can do more of the advisory work clients value most.

04

Guardrails first

Where AI helps, where it must not give tax or financial advice, and how to keep client data safe.

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Real examples

Real examples from practice, not theory.

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Take-home AI resources

An accounting-specific AI resources the room keeps and uses the next morning.

Keynote · 45–60 min · also a breakout

AI for Accountants: add 10 hours a week

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.

  • Where AI saves a practice the most time, by task
  • How to make AI write in the firm's voice, not a generic chatbot
  • A practical framework for client work, reporting and research
  • Guardrails: data safety and where advice stays with the accountant
  • An accounting AI resources the room can use immediately
Adam Franklin teaching AI to an accounting audience
Who this is for

Built for the person putting the program together.

If you are the conference chair, the event manager at an accounting association, someone on the education or CPD committee, or the managing partner organising a firm day, this session is built for your room.

Your members might be CPAs, chartered accountants, tax agents, bookkeepers or SMSF specialists. Some are in public practice, some sit in a business advisory team, some are inside a corporate finance function. Adam has worked with firms including Kelly + Partners, Nixon Advantage and Trekk Advisory.

So Adam researches your firm or your conference and the room's AI experience before he writes a slide. A compliance-heavy audience gets a different talk from a business advisory team, and a partner group gets a different talk again from a graduate cohort. Tell him who is in the room and what they are worried about, and that is what he builds. If your delegates sat through an AI session last year, say so, and he will build around it rather than over it.

And your delegates leave with something they can use on Monday. They get practical AI resources and clear guardrails on where AI stays well away from tax and financial advice, and every example is real work from their profession.

Accounting firms and masterclasses

Accounting teams Adam has spoken to or advised.

Kelly + PartnersNixon AdvantageTrekk AdvisoryAI Edge accountant masterclasses

That's part of 250+ keynotes and 100+ workshops across professional services over 21 years. See the full record.

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What attendees say

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Adam is a great conference speaker, a tremendous bloke and a genuine expert in what is a critical medium for business.

Brett Kelly
Brett Kelly
CEO, Kelly+Partners · Bestselling author
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"Adam was a fantastic facilitator for a recent AI Edge workshop. Super knowledgeable, helpful, with fantastic workbook resources and ongoing support."

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Amanda Hardy
AI Edge workshop
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"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."

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Melanie Smith
AI Edge attendee
★★★★★

"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."

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Kate Garrett
Workshop attendee
How Adam is booked

Keynote, breakout or workshop.

Format 01KeynoteMain-stage plenary session, 45 to 60 minutes. Sets the thinking and sends the room away with prompts.
Format 02BreakoutA focused concurrent or parallel session for a practice stream. Shorter, smaller room, same practical punch.
Format 03WorkshopHands-on, half or full day. The room leaves with AI installed and running.
Format 04VirtualThe same session delivered over Zoom or Teams. Suits distributed teams and hybrid events.
Common concerns

What program managers raise before they book.

"Our members are not tech people."

That is exactly who the session is built for. Adam has been at this 21 years, explaining tools to people who did not sign up to be technologists, and he does it in plain English. Your members will leave with the three or four things that will make their week easier.

"We covered AI at our conference last year."

Fair. And a talk from twelve months ago is describing a different set of tools. So this is an update, and he works from real examples of the job.

"We are worried about the compliance risk."

So is Adam, and he leads with it. The talk is explicit about where AI helps with admin, drafting and research, and where giving tax or financial advice stays firmly with the qualified accountant. A cautious room should leave more confident about where that line sits.

"We do not want a generic AI talk with our industry pasted in."

Every example is grounded in what an accounting practice actually does all day, from client comms and reporting commentary through to the work that crowds out advisory time. Adam has run AI Edge masterclasses for accounting teams and spoken at Nixon Advantage, so the examples come from the room.

"Our partners have seen it all before."

Experienced partners are the best audience for this. They already know what a good call looks like, so they tend to pick up quickly where AI helps and where it makes things worse.

Related reading: the complex documents senior partners will not delegate, why AI gives you generic answers, and how to get AI to recommend your firm.

Questions firms ask

Frequently asked questions

Why book Adam for an accounting audience?

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.

Is this suitable for a CPA or chartered accountant audience?

Yes. The room is usually a mix of CPAs, chartered accountants and public practitioners, and the material works the same either way. What changes the talk is the work your members do day to day, so a compliance-heavy practice and a business advisory team get different examples, drawn from the work they actually do.

Does Adam speak specifically to accountants?

Yes. Adam delivers AI keynotes and 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.

Is the content safe around tax and financial advice?

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.

Can you tailor it to compliance versus advisory?

Always. Adam researches your firm or conference and the room's AI experience, then tailors the examples and the AI resources. A compliance-focused session looks different from one for a business advisory team.

How does the session fit our CPD program?

Send Adam the wording your professional body uses and he will structure the session against it, including a stated takeaway your delegates leave with. He will not tell you it is accredited, because that is your body's call and not his.

Do you run a hands-on workshop as well as the keynote?

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.

How much does it cost to book Adam Franklin as an AI keynote speaker for accountants?

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.

Where is Adam based, and does he travel for accountants events?

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.

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