Amsterdam Dance Event has started revealing its first ADE Pro speakers for 2026, and the opening group already gives a pretty clear read on how the conference wants to frame its 30th anniversary. Mosimann, Novah, and LYZZA will be among the first names on the ADE Pro stage this October, and the combination feels deliberate. These are three artists with very different lanes, very different relationships to club culture, and very different experiences of how electronic music expands through performance, identity, and community.
That is why this first announcement works. ADE Pro could have gone for a safer opening move and led with familiar industry-panel names, legacy executives, or broad business talking points. Instead, it is putting artists at the front of the conversation and using their individual paths to talk about the larger shifts happening across scenes right now. For a conference that has spent decades sitting at the center of electronic music’s business and cultural infrastructure, that feels like the right instinct.
Three artists, three angles on where electronic music is moving
Mosimann brings one kind of perspective. He has spent years moving across performance, production, and broadcast culture, which gives him a useful position when the conversation turns toward how artists build presence across multiple formats without losing the core of what they do. He understands spectacle, but he also understands the mechanics behind keeping a long career moving in a scene that burns through attention quickly.
Novah brings something else entirely.
Her rise has been tied much more closely to the current pressure points inside hard club culture, where speed, intensity, and identity all move together in a tighter way. She represents a newer wave of DJs whose growth has happened inside a more fractured, fast-moving environment, and that makes her a strong voice for where harder ends of the scene are heading.
Then there is LYZZA, whose work has always felt broader than one category.
She moves between club music, experimental pop, performance, and community-building in a way that gives her a wider frame than the average artist talk usually gets. That gives ADE Pro a different kind of energy early. It signals that the conference is interested in how artists build ecosystems around themselves, not only how they release records or book tours.
ADE Pro is using its anniversary year to widen the conversation
That is probably the most useful takeaway from this first speaker drop. ADE Pro is not only celebrating its own longevity. It is using that milestone to ask bigger questions about who gets to shape the future of electronic music and what kinds of artistic trajectories deserve space on the conference stage.
The best conference programming usually works that way. It does not treat artists like decoration around the business panels. It lets them define the direction of the discussion. Mosimann, Novah, and LYZZA each give ADE Pro a different entry point into topics like artistic development, scene growth, platform building, and the social side of dance music culture.
For a 30th anniversary edition, that feels like a smart place to begin. It keeps the tone current, leaves room for the wider program to build in multiple directions, and reminds people that conferences like ADE are at their best when they connect the music itself to the bigger systems forming around it.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
