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

Yonmo

I work with hospitality operators—restaurants, cafés, event planners, and boutique hotels—to build stronger guest relationships and smarter offerings by engaging guests while they’re still on-site.

Yonmo’s platform helps teams:

• Ask targeted questions at the right moment (in-seat, post-purchase, etc.)
• Turn insights into action immediately—not weeks later
• Reward guests in real time with offers that drive return visits and word of mouth

Early pilots have helped partners reduce guesswork in R&D, spark social engagement, and test new offerings through live feedback loops.

Currently in private beta across Bangkok, Chicago, and Toronto. Open to conversations with hospitality operators, consultants, and local business networks looking to create more meaningful guest experiences.

Founder

Setter

Led engineering teams in launching a new mobile application that enables users to express interest in new products through blockchain tokens

Head of Engineering

Squarespace

• Led product and engineering on creating the first Ethereum NFT lazy-minting mobile solution for digital collectibles, onboarding users without any crypto experience in a single, seamless flow
• Established partnerships and integration with Rarible, Infura, Pinata, and Coinbase
• Advised Finance and Security in building the first cryptocurrency and blockchain-based practice at Squarespace
• Designed and developed a mobile native self-custodial wallet built into Unfold, supporting signing messages and sending earned Ether from collectible sales
• Managed and contributed to writing for mobile iOS (Swift), frontend web (React, JavaScript), and backend (Node, TypeScript)

Product & Engineering Lead

• Led the iOS Squarespace App team, managing delivery and coaching engineers
• Built the automated testing best practices for the mobile teams at Squarespace, setting a new standard for quality ownership and significantly reducing manual QA (TDD, XCTest, Quick, Nimble)
• Led various feature development and implemented more scalable and modular app architecture via new internal frameworks (Swift, MVVM)

Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

Senior Software Engineer

Independent

• My products have been featured internationally in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Product Hunt, and Ars Technica.
• I designed, developed, marketed, and managed a portfolio of my own Swift applications for iPhone and iPad.
• Kuaiboard – a text snippets keyboard app – was featured by Apple as a "Great App for iOS" in the U.S. and several other iOS App Stores, and charted consistently as one of the top 50 paid utility apps in both Hong Kong and Malaysia.
• Taiwan Garbage Service – a map reference and SpriteKit game app – was featured twice by Apple in the Taiwan App Store Today feed, and charted consistently as one of the top 10 free reference apps in Taiwan.
• Eat Drink Taiwan – a Taiwanese food discovery app for both iOS and Android – was covered by Yahoo! News Taiwan and recommended by the Taipei City Government.

Product Engineer

Freelance

• Led development for startups with applications for mobile devices made by a company named after a fruit
• Architected both a childhood memory media management app and a memory photo printing app (Objective-C, VIPER architecture, 50K+ registered users)
• Created internal Cocoa Touch frameworks to support code reuse across both applications (Core Data persistence layer, AWS/S3 background media uploads, in-app purchases)
• Co-led project management, managing issues, goals, and timeline to keep projects finely oiled and moving forward (Agile, Pivotal Tracker, Trello)

iOS Engineer

Orchard, NYC

• Developed and successfully launched several iOS applications, including an e-book reader, favorite movie queue manager, and camera-driven animated GIF creator
• Employed test-driven development (Cedar and XCTest) and pair programming methodologies to ensure stable, high-quality codebases
• Created an open source full-stack solution for a mobile chat iPhone application (Objective-C and Ruby on Rails)
• Created internal tools and modules for streamlining mobile application development

This Looks Nice

• Provided professional standards-compliant, responsive design and development services to individuals and businesses
• Offered full-stack solutions for content management systems, ecommerce, and website maintenance (Ruby on Rails, PHP, Drupal, HTML, CSS, JS)

Co-founder, Designer, Developer

These days I’m excited about helping people in hospitality solve challenges in feedback, rewards, and automation with their guests. Previously I’ve also designed and developed mobile productivity apps to help people save time and get things done. My products have been featured by Apple and have charted on the App Store’s Top 100 lists. Online and print publications like The Wall Street Journal have also reported on my work. When I'm not writing software, I'm writing music, performing sketch comedy, or honing classic cocktail recipes!

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