Ian Khan

Why organisations work with Ian Khan

• He gives executive teams a diagnostic rather than a forecast. The Future Readiness Score, built from his research across hundreds of organisations, turns “are we ready for AI” into a scored view across seven operating pillars.
• His writing carries commercial weight. Undisrupted won the Bronze Medal at the 2025 North American Book Awards and the Non-Fiction category at the Goody Business Book Awards 2025; Metaverse For Dummies is a Wiley title.
• He reports on the future as a working journalist, not only a consultant. As executive producer and host of The Futurist on Amazon Prime Video, he has interviewed hundreds of global leaders on the record, which keeps his keynote content closer to evidence than to speculation.
• He separates AI hype from AI advantage in front of technical and non-technical rooms. His AIRS assessment gives boards a common language for where they sit on vision, use cases, data, governance, and adoption.

Biography highlights

• USA Today bestselling author of Undisrupted, which introduces the Future Readiness Score across seven organisational pillars.
• Author of Metaverse For Dummies, published by Wiley.
• Executive producer and host of The Futurist, a streaming series on Amazon Prime Video across more than 45 regions.
• Director of the documentary Blockchain City and producer of additional films on AI and the future of work.
• Thinkers50 Future Readiness Award finalist and Thinkers360 Distinguished honoree.
• Media contributor and on-record commentator featured by CNN and Forbes.

Biography

Most AI strategy conversations stall at the same point. The executive team agrees the technology matters. Nobody can agree on what to do on Monday. Khan’s contribution is a working answer to that problem, built from research across hundreds of organisations and codified in his book Undisrupted and the Future Readiness Score that sits inside it.

The Score moves the question from opinion to diagnostic. It measures an organisation across seven pillars, including engagement, learning, collaboration, culture, innovation, and execution, and returns a prioritised picture of where readiness is thin. His AIRS framework does the equivalent for AI specifically, covering vision, use cases, data, governance, and adoption. Boards use both as a shared map before they approve the next investment.

Khan works across the commercial and editorial sides of technology. He is the author of Metaverse For Dummies, published by Wiley, and of additional titles on prompt engineering and value creation. As executive producer and host of The Futurist on Amazon Prime Video, he has interviewed hundreds of founders, scientists, and policy leaders on the record. Commentary work with CNN and Forbes sits alongside that.

His keynote practice reflects that dual background. Audiences get a filmmaker’s feel for narrative and a consultant’s insistence on instrumentation, applied to the decisions leadership teams are actually trying to make about AI, automation, and emerging technology.

Key speaking topics

• Artificial intelligence and generative AI strategy
• Future readiness and organisational diagnostics
• Digital transformation and enterprise technology adoption
• Emerging technology and disruption
• AI governance and responsible deployment
• Leadership in an AI-driven operating environment

Ideal for

• CEOs, CIOs, and CTOs sponsoring AI strategy across business units
• Boards and executive committees setting technology investment priorities
• Transformation and digital leaders responsible for moving pilots into production
• Government and public-sector leaders assessing AI readiness and governance

Audience outcomes

• A shared vocabulary for assessing where the organisation actually stands on AI and digital readiness.
• A prioritised view of which technology bets are worth compounding and which to retire.
• Sharper criteria for AI governance decisions, from data to adoption.
• Concrete patterns drawn from hundreds of documented executive interviews, not abstract predictions.