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Caffeine is obsolete.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

Kyndryl

• Provide senior level System Administration support for Windows Operating Systems on server and workstation platforms. Windows Server Management 2008/2012/2016/2019, L2.
• Build software, tooling, integration, and process to build Windows server and workstation images
• Implementation and management of new technologies which focus on security
• Hardening Windows and Linux environments
• Provide expert level support for process automation utilizing Powershell
• Assist supporting WAN/LAN network maintenance and issue resolution activities
• Assist supporting integration and configuration of NetScaler ADC solutions
• Monitor and test system performance and availability; prepare and deliver system performance statistics and reports
• Document, track and monitor technical issues to ensure timely resolution
• Ensure system connectivity of all servers, shared software, groupware, and other applications
• Perform add/modify/delete of user profiles and accounts
• Management in SCCM / System Center Configuration Manager, AD / Active Directory and virtualization: VMware, Hyper-V
• Azure 900 certified
• AWS certified
• Nutanix certified

Windows System Administrator

Third level support IBM Middleware Technologies, responsible for the infrastructure and maintenance of an international customer in the credit card financial sector, using IBM systems such as Websphere Application Server, IBM MQ and IBM Datapower.

* Proactive, incident and change support using Service Now

* Keep the environment stable by working with automation improvements and updates
* Health Checks and Mitigation.
* Deploy new packages to the system

- Knowledge of Agil (Agilte) Kanban / Scrum methodology

Administrador de middleware

Third level support IBM Middleware Technologies, responsible for the infrastructure and maintenance of an international customer in the credit card financial sector, using IBM systems such as Websphere Application Server, IBM MQ and IBM Datapower.

* Proactive, incident and change support using Service Now
* Keep the environment stable by working with automation improvements and updates
* Health Checks and Mitigation.
* Deploy new packages to the system

- Knowledge of Agil (Agilte) Kanban / Scrum methodology
- AZURE Knowledge (az-900) Iaas / Saas / Paas

Middleware Support

- Cloud Iaas, Saas, Paas
-Lead the delivery team on supporting the Customer.
-Change management.
-Incident management.
-Problem management.
-Patch management.
-User ID Management.
-Firmware and Code level currency.
-Health Checking.
-Service Activation and Deactivation.
-Issue and Risk management.
-Provide regular internal audits.
-Management of Windows servers NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016.
-Management of VMWare hosts ESX and ESXi.
-Support and management of QUEST tools.
- Skills and experience in Active Directory, GPO, DNS, DHCP.
- Support for Symantec Antivirus Console.
- Expertise in Citrix
- Hardware support including deployment and administration of management consoles such as IBM System Director, HP System Insight manager, Dell OpenManage Essentials and CISCO UCS.
- Skills and tests with WMWare Server for Linux and Windows servers.
- Skills and knowledge for WSUS Technology.
- ITIL framework methodology.

Responsibilities:
- Server Administrator for Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Windows 2012.
- Skills and experience in Active Directory, GPO, DNS, DHCP.
- Support for Symantec Antivirus Console.
- Expertise in Citrix
- Hardware support including deployment and administration of management consoles such as IBM System Director, HP System Insight manager and Dell OpenManage Essentials.
- Skills and tests with WMWare Server for Linux and Windows servers.
- Skills and knowledge for WSUS Technology.
- ITIL framework methodology.
- Change management expertise.

VMWare, Windows and AWS Support 

IT Specialist - Collaboration services / Lotus Domino / Microsoft Exchange / Mobility ( Good, Tangoe, MobileIron, Blackberry, Fiber Link, Afaria )

- Improving E-mail and Collaboration Services Architect (Lotus Domino)
- Work on ECS projects as Technical Advisor and Implementer
- Perform deep analysis and RCA ( Root Cause Analysis )
- Create Defect Prevention Plans
- Deploy upgrade projects
- Maintain and support large environments
- SME (Subject Matter Expert) Leader on ECS for Groupware and Mobile Solutions

English - Fluent
Lotus Notes certified.
IT Project expertise / Infrastructure

IT Specialist - Collaboration services / Lotus Domino / Microsoft Exchange

Outubro 2008 - Junho 2010  
Team Leade of 23 employees (Brazil & India) working with several custumers (Gap, Nisrouce, IBM, Delta, BNS, volkswagen and amei.

*Reduction to 0 of failed changes
*40% Overtime reduction
*Creation of 24x7 Team

Team Lead of Operations System

GTCON Tecnologia & Serviços

Operator from IBM System and american customers

Operations

Olá! Meu nome é Julio Silva e sou um administrador de sistemas experiente com conhecimento em ambientes Windows e VMware. Tenho uma sólida carreira em gerenciamento de servidores e segurança da informação. Atualmente ocupo o cargo de Líder de Gerenciamento de Sistemas na Kyndryl, onde desempenho um papel crucial no gerenciamento de servidores Windows 2012, 2016 e 2019, aplicando patches em servidores e hosts ESXi, além de liderar projetos de melhoria de ambiente.

Com mais de 18 anos de experiência na área de TI, adquiri amplo conhecimento em diversas tecnologias. Ao longo de minha jornada, desempenhei diversas funções, desde monitoramento de sistemas e suporte de rede de nível 1 até administração de servidores Domino, Lotus Notes e Exchange. Também tive a oportunidade de trabalhar na área de middleware, lidando com tecnologias como MQ, WebSphere, Datapower e Solace. Na área de inteligência, ganhei experiência com AWS, com foco no suporte a soluções de inteligência e VMware.

Durante vários anos ocupei o cargo de Líder Técnico, onde liderei equipes e contribuí para o sucesso de projetos internos e externos de diversos clientes. Participei ativamente de um projeto de Disaster Recovery, de uma transição de projeto para outro país e do recebimento de um novo projeto de um cliente.

Além disso, possuo a certificação AZ900 da Microsoft, certificação AWS CCP da Amazon Web Services, Nutanix NCA  6.5, demonstrando meu compromisso com o desenvolvimento contínuo e a busca pela excelência na área de TI.

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