Ian Khan | AI Readiness Keynote Speaker & Futurist
Ian Khan · Toronto, Canada · Available worldwide
The AI Readiness Keynote Speaker Who Measures Before He Speaks
Most speakers tell you what the future holds. Ian Khan tells you whether your organization is ready for it, and he brings the data to prove it.
The work
Evidence before the agenda.
Ian Khan is a Thinkers50-honored futurist, filmmaker, and USA Today bestselling author who has spent twenty-five years studying how organizations respond to technological change. He is the creator of the Future Readiness Score, an assessment deployed across more than a thousand organizations in over forty industries.
He is the author of UNDISRUPTED, a USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller and Bronze Medal winner at the 2025 North American Book Awards.
He does not deliver forecasts. He delivers evidence.
A keynote format no other speaker offers
Measure the room. Then move it.
Before Ian takes the stage, your leadership team completes a customized AI readiness assessment built specifically for your industry and organization. During the session, he reveals the collective results live, benchmarked against global data spanning forty-plus industries.
Primary research
The 500
Every year, Ian interviews more than five hundred senior leaders on camera: scientists, operators, founders, regulators, and investors. That research program is called The 500, and it is the engine behind everything he puts on a stage.
The interviews are produced as The Futurist, an independent documentary series distributed on Prime Video, Apple TV, Roku, Tubi, and Fire TV, and viewable on Samsung, LG, TCL, Vizio, and Apple devices.
They also become the annual State of Industry Series across medical imaging, healthcare, marketing, automation, banking and finance, crypto, and managed services.
Best suited for
Senior audiences who need to agree.
Leadership offsites, board retreats, executive strategy sessions, and organizations making significant AI commitments. Ian works best with senior audiences that need to agree on something before they leave the room.
Selected clients
Work across the
decision economy.
Where Ian works
Operational caution meets technological change.
Healthcare and pharmaceutical. As a pharma AI keynote speaker, Ian works with leadership teams navigating the gap between scientific AI maturity and operational decision speed. His documentary and intelligence work spans HLTH, RSNA, and VIVE.
Manufacturing and industrial. Manufacturing AI readiness engagements for multi-site groups, holding companies, and organizations integrating recent acquisitions, informed by his annual State of Automation report.
Financial services and fintech. Emerging technology and readiness work anchored in his coverage of Money20/20 and Sibos.
Technology and enterprise. Leadership alignment sessions for organizations where every function believes it is moving at a different speed.
Every Keynote, Delivered as an Unforgettable Intelligence Event
You can never go where you need to be without first knowing where you are. This is the mindset I bring to every keynote, at every stage, worldwide.
Executive Leadership · Strategy
Decision Velocity: How the Fastest-Deciding Organizations Win the AI Decade
The speed and quality of your decisions is now your real competitive edge. Ian shows leaders how to measure their organization’s decision velocity, expose the bottlenecks slowing them down, and build the systems that let teams decide faster without deciding worse.
Transformation · Leadership
Future-Ready: Building the Wall Against Disruption
Disruption is not the risk; being unready for it is. Using the Future Readiness Score, Ian turns transformation from a vague ambition into a measurable, benchmarked state, giving leaders a clear roadmap to make their organization resilient to whatever comes next.
AI Strategy · Operations
The Year of ROI: Turning AI Pilots Into Payoff
Everyone ran the pilots; almost no one is getting the return. Ian moves audiences past experimentation to an honest, audit-grade view of what actually blocks AI value, and the concrete moves that convert AI investment into measurable business results.
Future of Work · Operating Model
The Agentic Enterprise: Leading a Workforce of Humans and AI Agents
AI agents are joining the org chart. Ian shows leaders how work, roles, and decision-making change when autonomous agents operate alongside people, and how the organizations that redesign first will define the next decade of their industry.
Bestseller Keynote · Fortune 500
Undisrupted: The Seven Pillars of Companies That Refuse to Be Left Behind
Drawn from Ian’s USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller, this keynote lays out the seven-pillar framework that Fortune 500 teams use to stay ahead of change, giving every leader in the room a practical system to future-proof their people, culture, and strategy.
Designed for Your Audience
Custom Keynote Experience
A bespoke keynote tailored to your industry, audience, and strategic priorities, supported by pre-event stakeholder interviews and content customization.
Recognition
A record
of inquiry.
Thinkers50 Distinguished Award Finalist, 2025
Ranked a Top 25 Futurist worldwide, 2025
USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author, UNDISRUPTED
Bronze Medal, North American Book Awards 2025, Business Leadership
Finalist, Goody Business Book Awards 2025
Three-time TEDx speaker
Keynotes and executive briefings delivered in more than sixty countries
Featured on CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fast Company, and Wharton Business Daily
Books & frameworks
Published thinking. Applied methodology.
UNDISRUPTED introduces the seven-pillar organizational transformation framework covering engagement, learning, people, collaboration, innovation, execution, and culture, adopted by executive teams as a strategic planning resource.
The Quick Guide to Prompt Engineering (Wiley) makes generative AI practical for working professionals.
Metaverse For Dummies (Wiley).
Ian is the creator of the Future Readiness Score, the organizational readiness diagnostic at the center of his keynote and workshop practice, and the FutureSHIFT transformation methodology used by enterprise leadership teams globally.
Beyond the stage
Preparing the next generation.
Ian is the founder of the Impact Story Foundation, a nonprofit focused on AI and robotics education for K-12 students, preparing the next generation for careers in technology and science.
He is based in Toronto, Canada.
Start with the facts
Book Ian Khan for your next leadership event.
Keynotes, half-day AI strategy workshops for executives, and full readiness engagements including pre-event assessment and post-event intelligence reporting.
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