Considered one of the top voices in AI and the future of work, Ian Beacraft is a trusted advisor to the world’s most innovative companies. The founder and Chief Futurist of Signal and Cipher, Ian leads a strategic foresight and development agency that navigates companies through the rapidly changing technology landscape to find meaningful routes to innovation that impact the bottom line, inspire cultural change and create new products and services.

Previously responsible for P&L development and innovation departments at the largest agencies in the world, Ian is known for making bleeding-edge technology understandable and monetisable. The list of brands he has advised includes Samsung, Intel, Coca-Cola, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Universal Pictures and dozens more.

Ian Beacraft is known as a ‘gonzo futurist’, actively experimenting with new and emerging technologies before they leave the research lab to understand the implications and applications for the future of work and society at large. Ian is the first person ever to host a news segment – the Future Report on Defiance Media – as a synthetic human, streaming to over 100 million devices around the world.