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Caffeine is obsolete.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

Bryants.dev

▪ Developed social AR experiences for clients like Fenty and Tubi, boosting engagement on social platforms.

▪ Created Shopify sites and features for brands like Happy Hues and Salam Hello, collaborating with design to enhance UX.

▪Built interactive websites for agencies like Culture Brands using Next.js/GSAP and GraphQL on AWS.

Freelance Creative Developer

Ralph

▪ Built multi-platform digital experiences that bridge the gap between virtual and physical interactions, utilizing technologies across mobile, web, and augmented reality (AR).

▪ Engineered a simulated digital currency for San Diego Comic-Con based on the TV show Mr. Robot, involving front-end, back-end, and native iOS app development, which successfully engaged thousands of attendees. Secured an Emmy award nomination, which led to a win for an innovative ARG campaign the following year.

▪ Led the development of AR filter projects for high-profile clients such as Apple TV, Netflix, and Hulu, significantly enhancing user interaction and engagement on platforms like TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram.

Senior Creative Developer

Pitney Bowes

▪ Collaborated closely with the UX team in implementing a company Design System, this included SDKs for both iOS and Android.

▪ Worked with the Location Intelligence, Mailing/Shipping and Ecommerce groups who looked to establish a mobile presence for their products.

▪ Heavily contributed to the Borderfree Ecommerce site, which involved building out a CMS to developing the frontend in AngularJS.

Mobile Application Developer

▪ Develop, modify and maintain web apps for agencies like HBO, AMC, USA Network, and Showtime.

▪  Integrate 3rd party APIs, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.

▪ Implementation using tools/frameworks such as Yo, Grunt, Bower, RequireJS, Backbone, Compass/SASS.

Developer

Havas Worldwide

▪ Spearheaded both responsive sites and native iOS projects, for various pharmaceutical clients.

▪ Implemented a JS(jQuery) framework to facilitate content creation on SalesForce iRep Platform. 

▪ Contributed to natively built iPad app, used by sale representatives to track patient line of treatment.

Mobile UI Developer

ScrollMotion

▪ Gathered technical requirements from clients and architected solutions for widely distributed consumer-facing mobile applications under highly demanding timelines.

▪ Leveraged strong scripting skills (Python, JavaScript) to create process efficiencies for projects throughout ScrollMotion, enabling project management to meet strict client deadlines amid resource constraints during ScrollMotion’s rapid growth.

▪ Extended ScrollMotion’s core mobile applications platform (iOS) by developing features and enhancements including data visualization, RSS processing and analytics.

▪ Gained significant experience integrating ScrollMotion’s platform with third party APIs including Google Maps, Localytics and Unity.

Lead Developer/Technical Lead

▪ Served as a lead front-end developer for enterprise and publishing clients including General 
Electric, “Esquire”, “O, the Oprah Magazine”, “Harvard Business Review”. 

▪ Heavily utilized expertise in web development (HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript /jQuery). Due to the wide viewership of the apps, attention to detail was critical.

▪ Developed a script (Python) to ensure backwards compatibility as ScrollMotion migrated it's platform from web-based to native iOS. The purpose of the script was to provide a seamless upgrade experience to subscribers of Esquire and Oprah magazines.

▪ Created an XML/JSON parser that was used to support content production across multiple 
projects.

Mobile Front-End Developer

▪ Gained exposure to quality assurance principles, developed familiarity with regression testing and test-case creation

▪ Wrote succinct status reports each week for project management

▪ Exceptional performance led to being hired as full-time employee after graduation

QA Engineer (while part-time student)

William Paterson University

Helped students with questions and projects related to Computer Science. Students saw noticeable improvements in grades.

Tutor

Responsible for maintaining and monitoring computers in the Computer Department Labs. 
Troubleshooting and repairing of both hardware/non-hardware issues(mainly virus removal).   
Performing backup and restore tasks on both Windows and Unix systems.

Computer Lab Administrator

Coreglia Studio Castings

Responsible for assisting customers with questions and orders. Manufactured plaster/cement statues. which we sold to both retail and wholesale businesses. Products range from religious statues to structural columns used in construction.

Sales Representative

Programming knowledge of:
-C++, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP, Python, HTML, XML, JSON, SQL, Swift 

Software:
-Oracle, Wireshark, Adobe Suite, AutoCad, Blender


Operating Systems:
-UNIX
-Linux
-MAC
-Windows

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