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Caffeine is obsolete.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

Auki Labs

Auki Labs is creating a decentralized protocol for collaborative spatial computing.

Our decentralized peer-to-peer positioning system will give every cubic millimeter an address, replace the GPS system, and enable a persistent and privacy-preserving metaverse.

We are on a mission to help every person and device find their place in the world. Literally.

Head Of Business Development

Sonar

Sonar enables you to get better insights, faster – by talking to your customers through video, analyzing their feedback, and sharing that across the organization.

The platform can be used by anybody in the organization to design, collect, analyze and share video-based qualitative research that enables you to walk in the shoes of existing or potential customers.

Using the latest in AI and automation the platform speeds up the analysis process across any qualitative research and makes all data and insights fully searchable and shareable across the organization. 

Sonar is born out of UserTribe and is based on 10 years of experience with delivering customer insights to corporates and agencies across the world. The two brands UserTribe and Sonar have now merged into Sonar.

Today we are working with brands such as Danfoss, Arla, Lego, and Danske Bank among others.

https://sonarapp.com/

Account Executive

Userneeds

Relationship and Project Management with Swedens key customers, engaging business and managing successful delivery of online research projects for clients.

Userneeds provides online research programs and has built and maintained market research panels in seven countries. In Sweden, we have circa 100,000 active panel members.

Digital Insights Manager - Sweden / Denmark

Js Canada

Brought JS World Media's concept to the Canadian market.

Responsibility:
Locate and set up office.
Generating, qualifying, contacting, developing and nurturing all leads from start to finish.
Cold Calling
Book meetings
Hold Meetings and sign client
Onboarding new clients

Sales Manager

Validate the Canadian market to ensure viability of the product and concept before opening up an office.

Responsibility:
Generating, qualifying, contacting, developing and nurturing all leads from start to finish on the Canadian market from Sweden
Cold Calling
Book meetings
Hold Meetings and sign client
Onboarding.

Key Account Manager

JS Sverige

Hired by the Swedish HQ to open up an office in Canda. 

Responsibility:
Generating, qualifying, contacting, developing and nurturing all leads from start to finish.
Cold Calling
Book meetings
Hold Meetings and sign client
Onboarding.

PB Branding

Pinyin Studio a French graphic design agency and BranEverest successfully merged in late December 2015 and formed PB Branding. PB Branding is a graphic design and marketing consultancy company that offers graphic design, creative direction, web development and digital marketing services to Chinese and international clients which include Uber and Didi.

Main responsibilities
•	Sales and marketing research, strategy formulation and execution
•	Pitching and presenting to qualified leads
•	Sales management and KPI formulation and tracking
•	Administrative functions
o	Overall Quality Control
o	Finance
o	HR
•	Merger and acquisition
o	Financial calculations

Achievements:
•	Revenue growth of 330% during the first year of PBB operations
•	Expanded the company from 10 to 20 employees in 12 months
•	Identified, pursued and closed successful cooperation with major Chinese and international clients including Uber and Didi.
•	Restructured project management, financial management and HR practices of PB Branding.

Managing Director

RevReal

RevReal is a tool for Chinese consumers to verify the authenticity of their purchases. Responding to the well-publicised pediatric food safety issues in China, RevReal helps parents ensure the safety of the food their children consume from farm to fork. RevReal is an integrated front end/back end and WeChat platform  
In 2015 RevReal secured a 500.000 RMB seed investment for sales and development purposes. However a year later, due to not being able to secure further investment, the project was discontinued.

General Director & Founder

Elanders

Elanders is a multinational printing doing business in more than 10 countries with 5000 employees. The production plant in China service clients such as SONY, Volvo, IKEA and Mercedez.

Following a presentation for Elanders in 2012, I was hired out of school to move to China and establish a personalized printing subsidiary. Together with legal consultants and a small team达拉马 DALAHÄST was successfully established in 2013.

As project manager, I was responsible for a team of graphic designers and business developers to develop the brand, products and marketing material as well as conducting day to day sales activities through out Beijing.

The team was managed in mandarin and all employees were Chinese, communication with HR and Financial departments were also mainly done in mandarin.

Achievements:
•	Established a retail business in Beijing
•	Successfully designed, built and implemented a web shop (http://www.dalama.cn/ currently not accessible) with a functioning order and delivery system. 
•	Recruitment and staff management
•	Managing a team of 6 designers, sales staff and administrative employees as well as a varying amount of employees in production.

达拉马 DALAHÄST was closed down in 2015 due to liquidity issues of the mother company. As manager of the project, I was responsible for closing down the subsidiary and letting the employees go.

Business Development Manager

Länsförsäkringar

Insurance advisor, private sector

I am the Head of Business Development at Auki Labs, a company that is creating a decentralized protocol for collaborative spatial computing. With years of experience in online research, customer insights, and digital innovation, I have a passion for unlocking new possibilities and value for users and businesses.

At Auki Labs, we are on a mission to help every person and device find their place in the world, literally. Our decentralized peer-to-peer positioning system will give every cubic millimeter an address, replace the GPS, and enable a persistent and privacy-preserving metaverse. I lead the strategic partnerships, go-to-market, and growth initiatives for our ConjureKit SDK. This powerful tool allows developers and creators to build and share immersive augmented reality experiences across any device and platform. 

The future of augmented reality is not speculative but inevitable. One day, we will build and inhabit all the castles of the imagination, and Auki Labs is on a mission to lay its foundation. I am excited to be part of this visionary team and to collaborate with partners and customers who share our vision of a more connected, creative, and spatial world.

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