Ian Khan
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Ian Khan
Keynote Speaker
Thinkers50 Future Readiness Award Finalist, Host of The Futurist on Amazon Prime Video, and Creator of AI-IQ™, delivering a personalized live experience for every attendee.
Business futurist, AI strategist, and host of The Futurist on Amazon Prime Video, Ian Khan is the only keynote speaker who measures an audience's readiness instead of just describing the future. Through AI-IQ™, every attendee leaves with a personal AI-readiness score and a 48-hour action plan. Drawing on 500+ on-camera interviews with leaders across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and government — and a series that has featured Richard Gere, Aston Martin F1, MSC Cruises, and Philips — Ian helps organizations cut through AI hype, fix their foundation, and invest at the right time. Most futurists tell you what's coming. Ian tells you whether you're ready. Where Carl Sagan made the universe feel close, Ian makes the future of AI and emerging technology just as tangible — and just as urgent.
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Most futurists describe what could be. Ian Khan measures what is, where an organization actually stands, where it’s headed, and how to get there.
A Global Top 30 Futurist, Thinkers50 Distinguished Achiever, and Thinkers50 Future Readiness Award finalist, Ian is a data-focused AI strategist and advisor to governments and private-sector leaders worldwide. His message runs against the noise: don’t jump on the AI bandwagon until your foundation is clean. Know your capabilities first. He created AI-IQ™ , the only keynote experience that gives every attendee a personal AI-readiness score and a 48-hour action plan LIVE, so a room leaves with a measured picture of where it stands, not inspiration alone.
Ian is a USA Today bestselling author of Undisrupted, built on his seven-pillar future-readiness framework, and wrote one of the first comprehensive manuals on generative AI, a pioneer’s guide at a time when few were explaining the technology plainly. He is executive producer and host of The Futurist, distributed across Prime Video, Roku, and Tubi to a combined audience of more than 400 million. Through the series, he has told the stories of global figures from Richard Gere to NVIDIA, MSC Cruises, Sanofi, and Philips. He traces the work to watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos as a child: where Sagan made the universe feel close, Ian does the same for the technologies reshaping how we live and work, drawing on 500+ on-camera interviews with leaders across healthcare, manufacturing, banking and finance, agriculture, and government.
At his core, Ian is a people person whose work centers on human potential and the talent technology can’t replace. He is a leading voice on Agentic AI, the shift from tools that assist to systems that act, and on timing, knowing the right moment to invest in emerging tech rather than chasing it. For audiences that want the future made tangible, he can bring a live humanoid-robot experience to the stage.
His insights have appeared on CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, and Fast Company, and he has keynoted across six continents. Most speakers talk about what’s possible. Ian tells you what’s real, what’s next, and what to do Monday morning.
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Don’t Fear the Future — Measure Your Readiness for It
Fear of AI and automation is a productivity tax: it freezes decisions and stalls investment. Ian replaces fear with data. Using AI-IQ™, he gives a room a measured read on where it actually stands, then shows leaders how to move from anxiety to an action plan.
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Get Your House in Order: The Foundation Before the AI
Most AI initiatives fail on data, talent, and culture — not technology. Drawing on 500+ interviews, Ian shows why the organizations that win clean their foundation first, and gives leaders a diagnostic for what to fix before they spend.
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Don’t Jump on the AI Bandwagon (Until You Can Answer These Questions)
Your strongest topic because it’s a position, not a theme. The contrarian case for timing: when to invest in agentic AI and emerging tech, when to wait, and how to tell hype from signal. Ends with the questions to ask any vendor before signing.
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We the People: Human Potential in the Age of Agentic AI
Technology amplifies organizations that invest in people and exposes those that don’t. Ian makes the case that talent is the multiplier AI can’t replace, and shows leaders how to grow capability instead of just buying tools.
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Leadership in the Era of Mass Confusion
Leaders face a clarity crisis, not a capability one — AI rewriting models, five generations in one workforce, certainty expected where the map isn’t drawn. Built on his FutureShift research, Ian delivers a decision framework for leading decisively under sustained uncertainty and bringing people with you.
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