Signal and Cipher

Signal and Cipher is the Future Decoded. We are an innovation and change management firm dedicated to helping the most impactful companies in the world navigate, operationalize, and monetize the impact of AI to drive the future of work.

From Hollywood studios to tech darlings and CPG, our clients are looking for ways to build the future today.

Keynote Speaker

I speak frequently on the future of work and the impact of rapid change on enterprises, employees, consumers, and the global economy.

Keynote Platforms: 
Billion Dollar Teams: The Future of an AI-Powered Workforce
Future Forward: Navigating Exponential Change
Creative Machines: AI and the Future of Creativity

Recent keynotes include Deloitte, Microsoft, Synchrony, Puig, SXSW, Adobe, Febraban, Icatu, Totvs, and Itau.

I have also given guest lectures on leadership and AI at several universities, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern, Loyola, DePaul, UIC, and IIT.

International Keynote Speaker

DeFiance Media

I write and produce the Future Report segment as a part of Defiance Daily on the Defiance Media Network, using Hour One's powerful synthetic media platform. Each news segment is delivered by an AI version of me - a Deepfake.
You can catch the segment at https://defiance.media or streaming on over 100MM devices and smart TVs worldwide.

AI Correspondent - Synthetic Host of "Future Report"

Coastal Spritz

Interim Fractional CMO

Update Beverage

Caffeine is obsolete. It’s time for an Update. Crush procrastination with a smart energy drink that's more advanced than caffeine. Now available at www.drinkupdate.com

* Rebuilt the brand from the ground up after two prior agencies failed to design a distinctive brand for this new beverage category
* Built a nimble team of freelancers to establish a visual identity, brand guidelines and design system, including an extensive library of 3D assets, and feature animations
* Defined core value propositions and key demographics for launch
* Lead launch strategy and execution 
* Worked with bleeding-edge tech platforms like Unreal Engine 5 and LightTwist to develop immersive brand experiences

Head Of Brand + Futurist in Residence

Cocktails For Hope

•  Successfully lobbied for the legalized sale of Cocktails-to-go in Illinois - providing bars and 
    restaurants a revenue lifeline during Covid
•  Built a team of 50+ volunteers, including some of the world's biggest names in hospitality
•  Co-wrote legislation that received overwhelming bi-partisan support 

Cocktails For Hope is an initiative that advocates for the temporary sale of pre-mixed cocktails in containers sealed by on-premise license holding establishments in the State of Illinois. Cocktails For Hope is committed to creating necessary cash flow to bars and restaurants throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic to allow them to remain in business. The initiative also seeks to create an open line of communication with lawmakers for continued conversations as the hospitality landscape evolves over time.               Visit us at: www.cocktailsforhope.org

Co-Founder

SWAPP PROTOCOL (NFT Marketplace, Decentralized Exchange, Data Monetization)

Advising Swapp on 
- Implementation of structure and process needed to scale effectively
- Marketing and communications strategy

NFT Marketing and Operations Advisor

XR Founders

We are a collective of over 15,000+ interdisciplinary voices sharing ideas to shape the future of XR. Together we explore new capabilities, diversity, ethical design, accessibility, sustainability, and social impact within the industry. 

Join us on Clubhouse every Thursday and Sunday at  5PM ET.

Cohost

Hawkeye

Epsilon agency is now part of Hawkeye!

We’re a one-of-a-kind human experience agency.

We orchestrate experiences for people across their customer journey— leveraging human insight, the world’s best data, empathic creativity and the most powerful technology available. We do all this to deliver business results for our clients and to create more meaningful connections between humans and brands.

We call these Connections Designed to Matter™.

VP, Group Director: Digital Strategy + Innovation

Epsilon

Established the Creative Technology group to explore, prototype, and deploy new technologies in service of solving client business challenges.

Digital Strategy Practice Lead
Executive Development Program Graduate

Vice President, Digital Strategy

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

Illumia Labs

Illumia Labs stands out with its multi-agent capability, which allows us to replicate various subject matter experts to leverage their know-how and corporate knowledge. We deliver customized solutions that integrate data-driven insights and AI-driven avatars to build engaging and realistic learning environments.

Illumia Labs provides AI-driven training solutions, for soft and technical skills, that integrate multiple AI  
agents as assistants or role-play actors for immersive, scenario-based learning. Our technology 
enhances learner engagement, improves performance, and scales training across industries such 
as customer service, hospitality, and aerospace.  
 
By replicating expert trainers with human-like emotions and personalized feedback, our AI agents 
provide realistic, adaptive learning experiences. Leveraging advanced data-driven tools—including 
skillset matrix analytics and cognitive load analysis—we align with evidence-based frameworks to 
deliver up to an 80% ROI improvement. Accessible across web, tablets, and XR environments without 
specialized hardware, Illumia Labs is redefining workforce training for the future.

Co-Founder | CEO

C100

C100 Member

Springbank Air Training College

SATC is different from other flight schools because the cornerstone of our philosophy is flexibility and convenience. Our fleet of aircrafts feature several different makes and models, making it easy to find a aircraft that suits your skill and experience level. Our fleet contains nine Cessna 172’s, the world’s number one training aircraft and a great plane for beginners. We also have a Cessna 182, an excellent cross country aircraft featuring G1000 Avionics, to help students easily transition from standard Cessna 172’s to larger aircrafts. Our Private and Commercial Pilot’s license students also have access to two multi-engine Piper Seneca II’s, which can be rented for all applicable training.

Cavalier Aviation Ltd, offer us, and our students, their full support and attention while they maintain our fleet. Cavalier understands that airtime is integral when it comes to the success of students. It is important to us and to them that SATC students experience both flexibility and convenience when it comes to booking their flight training. To minimize disruption, all aircraft maintenance is scheduled strategically, keeping downtime to a minimum.

SATC is a licensed Vocational school approved by Alberta Learning, that is committed to achieving and maintaining a high standard of flight training. This vocational license allows students holding a private pilot’s license to apply for government funding to help them cover the cost of training for their commercial pilot’s license. We are also certified to issue tuition tax credit receipts, allowing our students to claim tuition expenses on income tax returns.  

We own Calgary Air Taxi and is recognized training partner of WestJet FlightPath Program which provides the career development pathway as a Charter pilot and eventually onto our partner WestJet's Encore program.

Vice President Corporate Business Development

Aurora Aerial

Vision Statement: 
Innovate solutions by integrating emerging technologies into aeronautics to empower clients in meeting tomorrow's challenges

Mission Statement: 
Time is critical and seconds count. At Aurora Aerial, we integrate remotely piloted aircraft solutions: safely, economically and quickly, to empower our client’s success. 

Our focus is specialty verticals is in the Logistics segment utilizing our heavy lift platform in urban environment.

Sunward Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd.

Sunward Intelligent Equipment Group was founded in 1999 and Sunward Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (stock short name: Sunward Intelligent; stock code: 002097) is its main body. Headquartered in Changsha City, Sunward has also set up several subsidiaries at home and abroad, with its footprints spread at Changsha, Wuxi, Huaibei and Europe. Now, it has gradually grown into an international enterprise that focuses on engineering machinery, owns independent intellectual property and makes global influences, ranking among top 50 global enterprises manufacturing construction machineries.

Sunward follows its core value "Cultivating virtue with great effort, managing the businesses carefully and benefiting the society", takes the lead in market relying on its independent innovation and now it is rising rapidly in the industry, attributing to its outstanding technical strengths and well-rounded modern management skills, all of which contribute to Sunward's extraordinary performances in the areas of large piling machineries, full series of excavators, modern rock drilling equipments, industrial vehicles, mining outfits, hoisting machineries, pavement construction machineries, hydraulic components, military machineries, general aviation equipment, yacht, etc.

COO | Consultant

China International Infrastructure Development Advisors

China International Development and Investment Corporation ("CIDIC") is a Hong Kong incorporated, non-SFC registered, limited liability company.

CIDIC is a holding company and aims to diversify its businesses. The Corporation focuses on Mainland China, Middle East, Africa, and North America. 

The aims to use international capital source and count on construction as the tool to develop themed real estate developments such as Free Trade Zone, industrial, infrastructures such as airports, renewable energy, natural resources, medical & Hospitality and petrochemical sectors. 

CIDIC, benefits from its shareholder's capability and capacity, has entered various joint venture and cooperative relationship with the Chinese and international reputed institutions, that include publicly listed companies, stated owned enterprises, etc. 

The Corporation has also developed the relationship with various Chinese and international banks and financial institutions which include China Construction Bank, Agriculture Bank of China, Export Import Bank of China, CITIC Bank, Emirates NBD, Qatar Commercial Bank, Doha Bank, Saudi Holladi Bank, East West Bank, RBC, Scotia Bank, etc.

Being the holding company of Xinxing International Development and Investment Corporation Limited, the international business unit of China Xinxing Corporation (Group), we aim to partner with China Xinxing Corporation (Group) to provide construction and engineering services, include but not limited to civil construction, industrial construction, petrochemical development, infrastructural development, decoration, labor supply, material supplies, etc.

Other than with China Xinxing Corporation (Group), we have also concluded partnership relationship with other Chinese construction companies for the railway/transportation development, renewable development and for modular steel structure construction.

http://www.cidicgroup.com/

VP Americas

AvGlobe Business Group

AvGlobe Business Group Inc has 3 main focus area: 
1) Aviation Business Development: HR planning, strategic positioning, and execution of potential growth opportunities 
2) Corporate Development: wide range of strategies from partnership, fundraising, M & A to grow the company
3) Renewable Project Development: project planning and management, project financing / investment.

AvGlobe provides advisory services and one-stop solutions to overseas companies wishing to develop the Asia Pacific market. Relying on its extensive local resources, rich business experiences, and a team of seasoned professionals, 

AvGlobe's services cover areas including market analysis, Aviation project development, Aviation HR (Pilot) planning, Financing, Business Development and managing risk as a bridge for your business with Asia Pacific.
AvGlobe understands the challenges project developers face in evaluating investments in renewable projects. We help clients clarify and manage uncertainties in global aviation resources, project management, project financing and aviation permits conversion.

Managing Director

Viridian Asset Fund Inc.

The Viridian Asset Fund Inc. is Canada's most vibrant and sustainable, RRSP & TFSA eligible equipment leasing company.

Viridian launched in 2011 to provide investors with a platform to improve Canada’s environment in a very meaningful way... one piece of equipment at a time provides capital for equipment purchases to corporations that show leadership in environmental initiatives.

Viridian Leasing Inc. is a professionally managed financial services company with a team of experienced business, leasing and financial professionals committed to providing commercial enterprises and government with financing for business improvements that reduce costs, increase revenues and reduce the environmental impact of their day-to-day operations.

Viridian provides working capital loan & leases equipment that reduces the carbon footprint of its clients or provides environmental benefits in the form of renewable energy, green aircrafts such as airship or electric powered aircraft and treatment of waste water or garbage to green aviation biofuel. 

Viridian’s philosophy is that it can support businesses heading into periods of constrained resources by providing practical financing solutions that simplify their capital decisions – spreading out the cost over several years. Viridian’s financing solutions are tax efficient and help its customers manage working capital to remain competitive in the expanding global market place.

VP Business Development

1. Managing the Centre’s flight management program and Flight Training Unit (FTU) in accordance with Part IV of the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs);

2.Duties include but are not limited to the following:
• supervising all flight and ground instructors in the flight training unit;
• developing and implementing appropriate flight training operations, documentation, action plans and operational control systems in accordance with relevant sections of the CARs;
• ensuring quality and content of ground school instruction and flight training provided by the flight training unit;
• ensuring quality control of the content and accuracy of Pilot Training Records, course reports, student pilot permits issued, license applications and any other documents which form part of the training process;
• ensuring flight safety at all times;
• ensuring that all staff members have access to changes to regulations and standards; and
• liaising with Transport Canada on all matters concerning flight training operations.

3. Providing academic leadership, vision and continuous quality improvement for the flight management program by:
• coordinating the full-time and part-time workload assignments;
• conducting performance reviews with full-time and part-time staff;
• recruiting, hiring and orienting full-time and part-time flight staff;
• working with faculty to develop and implement annual academic program directives;
• working with program coordinators to develop and implement student recruitment strategies; 

4. Providing strategic and administrative leadership by:
• participating in strategic, business and budget planning processes;
• identifying operating and capital requirements;
• monitoring budgets, identifying variances, recommending actions to the President;
• liaising with community partners in the implementation of specific initiatives;

Chief Flight Instructor | Class 1 Flight Instructor

Calgary Flight Training Centre

1. Managing the Centre’s flight management program and Flight Training Unit (FTU) in accordance with Part IV of the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs);

2.Duties include but are not limited to the following:
• supervising all flight and ground instructors in the flight training unit;
• developing and implementing appropriate flight training operations, documentation, action plans and operational control systems in accordance with relevant sections of the CARs;
• ensuring quality and content of ground school instruction and flight training provided by the flight training unit;
• ensuring quality control of the content and accuracy of Pilot Training Records, course reports, student pilot permits issued, license applications and any other documents which form part of the training process;
• ensuring flight safety at all times;
• ensuring that all staff members have access to changes to regulations and standards; and
• liaising with Transport Canada on all matters concerning flight training operations.

3. Providing academic leadership, vision and continuous quality improvement for the flight management program by:
• coordinating the full-time and part-time workload assignments;
• conducting performance reviews with full-time and part-time staff;
• recruiting, hiring and orienting full-time and part-time flight staff;
• working with faculty to develop and implement annual academic program directives;
• working with program coordinators to develop and implement student recruitment strategies; and
• participating in Advisory Committees.

4. Providing strategic and administrative leadership by:
• participating in strategic, business and budget planning processes;
• identifying operating and capital requirements;
• monitoring budgets, identifying variances, recommending actions to the President;
• liaising with community partners in the implementation of specific initiatives; and

Chief Flight Instructor

Alan thinks outside of the box and creates innovative processes with the goal of achieving measurable results for our clients. Developing business relationships with clients and readily identify opportunity for clients is what Alan thrives on. 

Specialties: 
• Flight Training, Commercial Operations and Airline Operations
• Indo pacific corporate & business development 
• Airport planning as an Economic Driver with Real Estate Development
• Aircraft and equipment leasing
• Next Generation Aviation Professional and Women in STEM & Aviation supporter
• Project Development, Management & Financing
• JV, Merger & Acquisition

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