Decoding the future of work with the technologies of tomorrow | Futurist | Speaker

I help executives (including C-Suite and NEDs), and marketing teams understand the impact of AI on their organizations and augment the power of their teams with AI and reimagined workflows. 

For over a decade I've helped companies do mind-bending things with new and emerging technologies by showing them how to create, monetize and scale with bleeding-edge tech when few best practices and instruction manuals exist. At Signal and Cipher, we're focused on decoding the future of work for our clients.

My mission as a futurist and speaker is to inspire people to take ownership of their role in shaping the future, participate in building the world they want to see, be the wrong person asking the right questions, and approach the future with wonder, curiosity, and hope, not fear and confusion. The future is ours to shape, but you don't win by being as a spectator. 


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Considered one of the top voices in AI and the future of work, Ian is a trusted advisor to the world's most innovative companies. His firm Signal and Cipher transforms companies into AI-ready organizations with training, workforce reengineering, design, and development, resulting in meaningful routes to innovation that impact the bottom line, inspire cultural change, and create new products and ways of working.

Previously responsible for P&Ls and innovation departments at the largest agencies in the world, Ian is known for making bleeding-edge technology understandable and monetizable. Brands he has advised over the last decade include Samsung, Intel, Coca-Cola, Google, Microsoft, Nike, and dozens more.

Ian has pioneered a digitally immersive presentation style that brings artificial intelligence and extended reality to life so audiences can understand the future of technology in actionable ways. Ian is also the co-owner of a production studio designing virtual worlds and the first person ever to host a news segment as a synthetic human, streaming to over 100 million devices around the world.

A classically trained musician, Ian understands the magnitude of AI's coming impact on human creativity. As a strategist and speaker, he strives to educate stakeholders on the real-world implications of emerging technologies so they can make informed decisions that positively shape our world and advance humanity. In a rapidly evolving world that some consider dystopian, Ian remains a steadfast optimist and offers what everyone needs now: hope.

Specialties:  AI • Machine Vision • Emerging Technology • Digital Strategy • Process Engineering • Prototyping • Systems Thinking • Team Leadership

Ian Beacraft

We built modern organizations on the premise that execution is expensive. 

But what happens when building the prototype becomes cheaper than the meeting to discuss it? Every assumption about how work gets done flips upside down.

Here's the truth: we're failing at AI. Not because the tools aren't good enough, but because we're designing for a system that's already obsolete.

The winners of the AI era won't be the fastest adopters of tools. They'll be the ones who redesign how work is organized, how value is created, and how ecosystems are navigated.

I'm excited to be speaking at the Next Generation SAP Enterprise Architect Learning Forum 2026 — joining Enterprise Architects in person in Newtown Square, PA from February 23 - 26, 2026

My session is: Architects of Change: Redesigning Work for the AI Era Tuesday, February 24, 2026 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM ET

The in-person Forum is fully sold out with over 470 Enterprise Architects attending. All 25 Auditorium sessions across three days, including my session, will be livestreamed globally with complimentary registration.

Can't attend live?

Register anyway. All sessions will be recorded and available to watch on demand. For more details on all 25 sessions on the livestream and to register: https://lnkd.in/gVbEbDpf

Looking forward to sharing and learning together as a community

John Dubois

I’m a Principal in EY Consulting’s AI & Data practice, where I help global consumer and retail organizations translate AI from buzzword to business value. My focus is on shaping strategies that balance value capture, responsibility, and executability — and turning them into practical plays that drive growth, innovation, and trust.

Before joining EY, I founded and led an AI platform focused on predicting product and brand fit — using deep learning, NLP, and neural networks to connect people with the products and brands that truly resonate. That work taught me how technology can deepen understanding between companies and consumers — and even won awards along the way.

Throughout my career, I’ve been passionate about building collaborative teams and ventures that solve complex problems with creativity and purpose. Because in the end, innovation is as much about people as it is about technology.

Partner/Principal - Consulting, Artificial Intelligence

Bringing a unique blend of Artificial Intelligence, consumer insights, marketing technology, e-commerce and technology consulting experience to help infuse AI and advanced analytics into the EY consumer & retail services. Previously, built and ran an award-winning AI platform that serviced 100's of brands and retailers both directly and though some incredible agencies. Spent nearly two decades running boutique technology consultancies prior to that.

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