- 00:26–00:55 – Shifting the focus from technology to human impact
- 00:56–01:20 – Learning, unlearning, and relearning in the age of AI
- 01:21–01:43 – Inviting deeper conversations about evolving with AI
Ian Beacraft: Chief Futurist of Signal and Cipher
AI and future of work keynote speaker Ian Beacraft helps organizations transform artificial intelligence into augmented human capability through systems thinking, job design, and change leadership.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- Founder and Chief Futurist of Signal and Cipher
- Trusted advisor to the world’s most innovative global companies
- Expert in AI, augmented work, systems thinking, and job design
- International keynote speaker in over 20 countries
- Formats: AI and future of work keynote speaker, futurist, change management advisor
- Audiences: Executives, innovation leaders, HR and talent teams, strategists, and organizations preparing for AI-driven transformation
- Outcomes:
- Clear understanding of how AI reshapes work and human capability
- Practical frameworks for designing augmented teams and roles
- Confidence to lead organizational change in the AI era
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- Travels from: Chicago, IL
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Keynote Topics:
Navigating Next: Resilience through Adaptability and Anticipatory Change [Futures and Foresight]
This immersive keynote doesn’t just describe the future—it transports you there. The session creates a visceral understanding of what’s next for your industry through experiential methods rather than theoretical projections.
The keynote explores the emerging technologies and paradigm shifts impacting your industry. It features two groundbreaking frameworks: the “Neurology of Change,” where participants actively rewire their thinking patterns to become more adaptable in real-time, and “Future Prototyping,” which transforms abstract trends into tangible experiences your attendees can understand and implement. These experiences are customized specifically for your industry, integrating emerging technologies and societal shifts to create an actionable roadmap. Unlike traditional futures talks that leave audiences wondering “what now?”, this session empowers participants with practical tools to identify signals of change and translate them into immediate strategies.
Audience Takeaways:
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Experiential Adaptability: Leave with neurologically-reinforced adaptability skills that transform how you respond to industry changes
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Signal Recognition: Develop the ability to identify meaningful signals of change amid market noise, giving you critical lead time on emerging opportunities
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Future Prototyping: Master a practical framework for creating tangible, experiential models of future possibilities that galvanize stakeholder support
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Strategic Advantage: Gain the specific tools needed to position your organization ahead of industry disruption, not merely responding to it
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Actionable Foresight: Walk away with concrete next steps tailored to your industry that can be implemented immediately
Billion Dollar Teams: The Future of an AI-Powered Workforce [AI and the Future of Work]
The AI honeymoon is over, but its impact has barely begun. What happens when AI is pervasive in our work? We’ll reach that reality faster than we did with digital technologies. It won’t be enough to simply adopt AI. New ways of working, building teams, and creating value must be considered to maintain an edge.
During this session Ian will show examples of how new team structures, augmented processes, and resilient cultures are built, including experiments within his organization using AI to enhance employee productivity and power teams, drive profitable growth, and strengthen employee engagement.
Attendees will leave with a new vision of how AI will impact the structure of the organization, how the increasingly complex dynamics of technology, society, and markets have changed business transformation, and why discipline leads from all corners of the organization need to take part in charting the trajectory of AI adoption within their organization.
Takeaways:
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AI is not an advantage, it is an expectation. Your advantage comes from your people, process, and product.
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Efficiency is for beginners; the true value of AI is unlocked by rethinking the way you create value.
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We need to rethink what the modern “job” looks like when teams are built with a combination of humans, AI, and automation in mind.
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Leaders who ignore the polarizing hype and doom and gloom, can focus on creating real value with AI.
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Organizational transformation is not enough. In this dynamic environment, organizations need to build a culture of constant regeneration
How NOT to Screw Up an AI Transformation while Shaping the Future of Your Company [AI and Leadership]
The technological shifts of today are reminiscent of the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago. As AI transforms our landscape, we find ourselves in a transitional period where yesterday’s mental models collide with the technologies of tomorrow. This session explores what it means to work in an age where skills have increasingly shorter lifespans, adaptation becomes our primary value, and small, high-signal data outperforms big data.
This keynote challenges the conventional practice of replacing humans, presenting a vision where transformation, not optimization, drives success. Through interactive exercises and real-world examples, attendees will experience how adaptability operates in practice and why understanding how intelligence is multi-dimensional is key to succeeding alongside, not in competition with, AI. This session demonstrates through practical examples how organizations can create unique value with AI, explores the need for new metrics beyond efficiency, and presents a framework for building flexible, augmented teams.
Participants will leave with concrete approaches to navigating skill flux, understanding the neurology of change, leveraging small data for maximum impact, implementing new incentives, and building synergy between expert specialists and creative generalists. The session concludes with a vision for how we can collectively shape AI’s impact, emphasizing that while transformative technologies will break some things, our actions and collaboration will determine the trajectory of our shared future.
Takeaways:
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Transform Your Skillset for the Future: Embrace rapid skill adaptation by continuously learning. Commit to mastering new tools every 6 months to stay ahead in a fast-evolving world.
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Build an Agile, Adaptable Team: Create a culture where roles are fluid, and adaptability thrives. Equip your team to collaborate and innovate in any environment.
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Harness the Power of Small Data: Shift to focused, high-value data. By refining your data approach, you’ll make smarter decisions and gain clarity in your work.
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Unlock AI-Enhanced Creativity: Use AI as a co-creator to scale creativity and boost productivity. Let it help you go beyond limitations, transforming your workflow.
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Redefine Success with New Metrics: Focus on innovation, resilience, and knowledge integration. Shift from efficiency metrics to those that foster creativity and adaptability.
Talent Short Bio
Ian Beacraft is one of the leading voices on artificial intelligence, the future of work, and organizational transformation. He is the founder and Chief Futurist of Signal and Cipher, a change management firm that helps organizations move beyond treating AI as a technology initiative and instead design Augmented Individuals who multiply impact across teams and systems.
Before founding Signal and Cipher, Ian led emerging technology and innovation initiatives at some of the world’s largest advertising agencies. He is widely recognized for his ability to make complex, bleeding-edge technologies understandable, actionable, and monetizable. His advisory work includes global brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Google, Samsung, Intel, Nintendo, Microsoft, SAP, Deloitte, and many others.
As an international keynote speaker, Ian is known for pioneering a digitally immersive presentation style that brings artificial intelligence to life. He delivers practical, hype-free insight into the paradigm shifts required to lead in the age of AI, equipping audiences with frameworks they can apply immediately. Ian has spoken in more than twenty countries and delivered featured keynotes for major global events and organizations.
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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 change management firm advising clients how to turn AI form a tech initiative into Augmented Individuals that multiply their impact in the organization while using systems thinking to reimagine the way we design work and build teams.
Signal and Cipher guides companies through the rapidly changing technology landscape and provides the training, upskilling, process engineering, and job design services necessary to adapt to the era of AI and beyond. Previously responsible for leading emerging technologies and innovation for some of the largest ad agencies in the world, Ian is known for making bleeding-edge technology understandable and monetizable.
He has advised companies like Nike, Coca-Cola, Google, Samsung, Intel, Nintendo, Microsoft, SAP, Deloitte, and dozens more. Whether it’s reengineering the design sprint with BCG, or teaching banking executives how to prototype new products in real-time, Ian Beacraft always leaves the audience with a thorough understanding of the paradigm shifts necessary to lead in the age of AI. As an international speaker, Ian has pioneered a digitally immersive presentation style that brings artificial intelligence to life so audiences can understand the future of work in actionable ways with practical examples that cut through the hype.
Ian Beacraft has spoken in over twenty countries and given featured keynotes for SXSW, Microsoft, Google, CES, Web Summit and dozens more.
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Talent Videos
Ian Beacraft at SXSW | AI, the Future of Work, and Human Change
AI futurist Ian Beacraft reframes generative AI as a human and organizational shift, challenging leaders to rethink how work, learning, and change evolve together.
Video Summary & Key Moments
In this short keynote clip, Ian Beacraft reflects on insights from his featured session at South by Southwest. Rather than focusing on technology alone, Ian emphasizes how generative AI is reshaping human behavior, work design, and the way organizations navigate change.
He explains that his goal is not to showcase tools, but to explore how AI enables new ways of thinking, working, and leading. By intentionally placing audiences in a liminal state, Ian encourages them to feel slightly uncomfortable as they learn, unlearn, and relearn long-held assumptions about work and progress.
Ian highlights how conversations around AI must move beyond hype toward deeper questions about adaptation, identity, and evolution. He frames AI as a catalyst for reexamining how teams are built, how change is managed, and how individuals expand their impact in an increasingly augmented world.
The clip concludes with an open invitation to leaders and audiences alike to engage honestly with the questions AI raises and to actively shape how humans evolve alongside these technologies, rather than passively reacting to them.
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