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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Ian Khan, AI Readiness Futurist was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Future Readiness Award for UNDISRUPTED (Wiley), one of eight thinkers recognised worldwide alongside Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT, Rita McGrath of Columbia Business School, Amy Webb of NYU Stern and Howard Yu of IMD.
He is the creator of the Future Readiness Score, an organisational readiness diagnostic built over five years and now used with hundreds of organisations across more than a dozen industries. It is why his sessions work differently. Before he takes the stage, the leadership team completes an assessment built for their industry. During the session he reveals the collective results live, benchmarked against every organisation measured. The room leaves with ranked priorities it produced itself, and every attendee receives a personalised ninety-day action plan.
The research behind it is primary. Every year Ian interviews more than five hundred senior leaders on camera: scientists, operators, founders, regulators and investors. Those interviews are produced as The Futurist, an independent documentary series distributed on Prime Video, Apple TV, Roku, Tubi and Fire TV, and become the annual State of Industry benchmarks.
He is a USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author, a Top 25 Futurist worldwide, a three-time TEDx speaker.
He does not deliver forecasts. He delivers evidence.
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Ian Khan’s Speech Topics
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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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