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Meet Adina Gray
Adina Gray is an international speaker, AI advisor, and founder of PurpleOwl AI. She helps professionals, teams and organizations understand how artificial intelligence is reshaping work, learning and opportunity. Through keynotes, briefings, and workshops, she helps people respond in practical and thoughtful ways.
From Education to AI Leadership
With 20 years of experience in post-secondary education, Adina
built her career around teaching, curriculum development, and
helping students prepare for a changing world. Over time, that
work evolved into a deeper focus on artificial intelligence and
its growing impact on work, education, and society.
Over the past several years, Adina played a leading role in
AI-related initiatives at the Bob Gaglardi School of Business and
Economics at Thompson Rivers University. She helped organize AI
summits, delivered faculty workshops, gave student presentations
on AI and the future of work, and explored how AI could be
integrated into teaching, learning, and institutional practice.
PurpleOwl AI
As her work in AI expanded, so did her commitment to helping
others build confidence and capability in this rapidly changing
space. That passion led her to found PurpleOwl AI, where she now focuses on keynote speaking, executive briefings,
and workshops on AI, the future of work, and human opportunity.
Adina is also the founder of the AI in Education Network of British Columbia, a province-wide initiative connecting educators across K -12
and post-secondary education to share ideas, resources, and
responsible approaches to AI adoption.
International Perspective
Adina brings an international lens to her work through teaching,
speaking, and participation in leading AI conferences and forums
around the world. She has served as a visiting lecturer at
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences in Germany and Tianjin
University of Technology in China, and has taken part in AI
conferences and forums across Canada, the United States, France,
Spain, Chile, Germany, and India as a speaker, delegate, or
participant.
These experiences continue to shape how
she thinks about AI adoption, global readiness, and the uneven
ways AI is influencing work and opportunity across different
countries and communities.
