Ian Beacraft — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

CEO at Signal and Cipher since 2020, transforming companies into AI-ready organizations with training, workforce reengineering, design, and development.
Advises brands including Samsung, Intel, Coca-Cola, Google, Microsoft, and Nike on creating, monetizing, and scaling with emerging technologies.
Pioneered a digitally immersive presentation style that brings artificial intelligence and extended reality to life for audiences.
Co-owner of a production studio designing virtual worlds.
First person to host a news segment as a synthetic human, streaming to over 100 million devices around the world.
Served as AI Correspondent and Synthetic Host of 'Future Report' at DeFiance Media from June 2022 to July 2023.
Holds a B.S. in Management with concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Music Performance.

Biography

Ian Beacraft is the CEO of Signal and Cipher, a firm dedicated to decoding the future of work for clients. Since 2020, he has focused on helping executives, including C-Suite and NEDs, and marketing teams understand the impact of AI on their organizations. His firm transforms companies into AI-ready organizations through training, workforce reengineering, design, and development, aiming to inspire cultural change and create new products and ways of working.