If you have ADHD and a spare 19 hours, you might be interested in watching some talks from the recent Global ADHD Conference 2026.

The conference brought together researchers, practitioners, advocates and people with lived experience to explore ADHD from a whole range of perspectives. It was organised by a collaboration of ADHD charities from around the world, including ADHD UK.

There’s a lot of interesting material in there.

But 19 hours is quite a commitment. And I suspect you might have other things to do.

So, I decided to try something.

Can AI make large amounts of information more accessible?

As a quick aside, there is absolutely a debate to be had about the role of artificial intelligence in our lives.

I have my own questions about it, particularly when it comes to mental health and wellbeing.

But one area where I think AI is genuinely useful is in making large amounts of existing information easier to explore.

Not necessarily replacing the original material, but providing different ways into it.

So, I got ChatGPT to work through the transcripts of 21 conference sessions, representing around 19 hours of talks, and extract two types of content:

• Inspirational insights: Ideas, perspectives and observations that might help shift how you think about ADHD, yourself and your experiences.
• Helpful practices: Things you could experiment with in your everyday life, studies, relationships and wellbeing.

Then came the question of what to do with them?

A little ADHD inspiration machine

After playing with a few different formats, we landed on something deliberately simple.

When you visit the website, you’re presented with two things:

One insight and one practical suggestion, randomly selected from the collection.

There’s a refresh button that brings up two more.

That’s it.

No course to complete. No reading list to work through. No expectation that you’ll implement 15 new strategies before lunch.

Just a couple of ideas to consider.

And with 225 items in the broader catalogue, you could mash that refresh button for quite a while.

Try the ADHD Inspiration page →

Prefer to explore the full collection?

Of course, sometimes you want to explore something specific rather than rely on randomness.

So, we’ve also built a catalogue page where you can search and filter the insights and practices by topic, speaker, conference session and other categories.

An important note about AI and accuracy

I want to be transparent about how this resource was created.

AI did the extraction and summarising work, using conference transcripts and timestamps.

That means there could definitely be errors.

Transcripts can be inaccurate. Summaries can lose nuance. And translating a speaker’s ideas into a short, practical suggestion involves interpretation.

I’ve found the AI agents I’ve been using recently, which have a fair amount of context about my work, can do quite a decent job of working with existing source material.

But that’s not the same as saying they’re always right.

The website includes an explanation of how the material was created and its limitations. The insights are paraphrases rather than verified quotations, and some practices have been adapted with university students in mind.

Also, not every idea expressed at a conference has the same level of scientific evidence behind it.

Who might find this useful?

If you have ADHD, or suspect that you might, I hope this offers a useful way to explore different perspectives.

Particularly if you’re interested in both:

• Shifting your internal narrative: How you understand ADHD, how you interpret your experiences, and how you think about yourself.
• Finding things that help: Practical changes, adjustments and strategies that might make life, study or work a little easier.

Not everything will resonate. Not every strategy will suit your circumstances.

But perhaps one or two ideas will be useful. And sometimes that’s plenty.

Try the site out for yourself and see what you think. Bookmark it if it’s helpful. Share it if you think someone else might enjoy it.

And feel free to sound off in the comments if you think using AI in this way is a terrible idea! I’m genuinely interested in conversations about where AI fits, and doesn’t fit, in the wellbeing space.

Want to watch the actual talks?

I’ve probably made a rather large assumption that you don’t want to sit through the lectures.

Perhaps you do!

You can watch the conference talks on YouTube, or visit the Global ADHD Conference website for recordings and transcripts.

You can also learn more about ADHD UK, one of the organisations behind the event.

And there’s more. Previous conferences from 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 are available to watch as well.

I haven’t done an extraction of those.

Yet. 🙂

Have an idea for a wellbeing web experiment?

One final thing, which might be more interesting to the technically curious among you.

We’ve been experimenting with hosting small, interactive web experiences here on BetterU.

This ADHD inspiration resource is one example of the kinds of things we can build.

So, if you’ve got an interesting idea for a little wellbeing tool, interactive learning experience, or digital experiment, please get in touch.

We might be able to make it happen.

In the meantime, give the ADHD Inspiration page a spin.

See what comes up.

Find your next insight and practice →