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Ian Khan's speaking fee falls within range: $25,000 to $30,000
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.
AI STRATEGY LIVE
Your leadership team leaves with one plan, not ten opinions. Every leader is assessed beforehand. On stage the room sees how far apart it actually is, then ranks its priorities together. It leaves with a signed ninety-day plan carrying named owners and dates.
THE NINETY-DAY BOARD ANSWER
Walk out with the answer your board is about to ask for. The executive team is measured against the same dimensions the board will raise. The gaps are named in the room, with the people who have to close them. The client leaves with a board-ready position.
FROM FORTY PILOTS TO THREE THAT MATTER
Decide what to fund, and what to stop. Current initiatives are scored against readiness rather than enthusiasm. The room agrees which three deserve funding and which are quietly costing money. Ends with a shortlist, a stop list and a sequence for both.
THE AI READINESS KEYNOTE Five thousand people, one number, one direction. Every attendee scores their own team before the event, so they arrive invested rather than seated. On stage the whole room answers on their phones and watches the result build on screen. Nobody is a spectator. Every single attendee receives a personalised ninety-day plan afterwards.
THE AI MANIFESTO FOR LEADERS
Start the year aligned on what you actually believe. The organisation is measured across every level, so the gap between the top floor and the front line is visible before Ian speaks. He sets out what this decade asks of the people running things, and shows the room its own position inside it.
THE AGENTIC ENTERPRISE IS HERE
Understand what is coming for the work your people do. What agentic systems genuinely do today, what is being oversold, and what breaks first when an agent is placed inside a process designed for a human. Delivered for a whole workforce, not a technical audience.
AI AND THE HUMAN
Give five thousand people a reason to lean in, not brace. AI will not replace your people. People using AI will replace people who do not. Energy without hype, and a room that leaves ready rather than anxious.
THE AI READINESS BENCHMARK
Give your members the number nobody else in the sector has. The full membership can take the assessment, not only the people in the room. Members see where the sector actually stands. Every member receives a personalised report, and the association receives the aggregate benchmark, publishable under its own name.
THE FUTURE READY PROFESSION
Where your members stand, and what the next decade asks of them. Members are assessed against seven readiness pillars built for their profession. The capability spread inside the membership is shown openly, alongside a ten-year view members can plan against.
“Ian was an outstanding keynote speaker at FinovateSpring; he is a tour de force! His understanding of how technology will change the world and his ability to communicate that captivated the audience. ”
“Ian Khan is a lively, authoritative and inspiring speaker who’s fully engaged with tomorrow’s emerging technologies. He was a great keynote addition to our education programme at Accountex London, Europe’s leading expo for accountants and finance professionals.” – Ian Moss, Accountex
“We would recommend him for any conference looking to communicate about the diverse applications of technology across both the private and public sectors.” – Olivia Alice Flint, TNW Conference
“Ian also delivered a keynote at the American Supplychain Association in Chicago last week and delivered a highly resonating keynote on the future of the Supply Chain Industry and the Role of Artificial Intelligence.”
“Ian presented key technologies that are changing the business landscape. His message highly resonated with the audience.” – Big Data Toronto
“Ian delivered a highly targeted and relevant session covering IoT.” -UTC Association
“‘Thank you’ for your inspiring, informative, and thought provoking presentation.” -Windsor Essex Development Corporation
“An honest & clear message that helps understand what tomorrow will bring.” -Cloud Expo
“Ian presented on key technologies that are changing the business landscape today. His message highly resonated with the audience.” -Dina Al Wer, Corp Agency
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Undisrupted: Leadership Essentials on Business Transformation, Profitability and Future Readiness
In Undisrupted: Leadership Essentials on Creating a Future-Ready Organiztion, Ian Khan, a distinguished futurist, filmmaker, and author delivers a compelling message that challenges the conventional approach to future-proofing businesses with technology, offering a fresh, comprehensive strategy for thriving in an uncertain future.
In the book, Khan introduces the innovative Future Readiness Score™, a tool developed through his extensive research and experience with over 750 organizations. This score assesses a company’s ability to adapt to unforeseeable changes, preparing them to handle both challenges and opportunities. The book elaborates on the seven pillars of future readiness―Engagement, Learning, Collaboration, People, Culture, Innovation, and Execution―demonstrating how to safeguard your company against adverse events and capitalize on positive ones.
The Quick Guide to Prompt Engineering: Generative AI Tips and Tricks for ChatGPT, Bard, Dall-E, and Midjourney
In The Quick Guide to Prompt Engineering, renowned technology futurist and AI thought leader Ian Khan delivers a practical and insightful resource for taking the first steps in understanding and learning how to use generative AI. You will learn how to design and use prompts to get the most out of Large Language Model generative AI applications like ChatGPT, DALL-E, Google’s Bard, and explore how to understand generative artificial intelligence and how to engineer prompts in a wide variety of industry use cases. You’ll also find illuminating case studies and hands-on exercises, as well as step-by-step guides, to get you up to speed on prompt engineering in no time at all. The book has been written for the non-technical user to take the first steps in the world of generative AI.
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