Ian Khan
Ian Khan is a Canadian futurist, media personality, keynote speaker, author, and documentary filmmaker.[1][2] His work focuses on artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and the energy industry.[3] Khan was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Future Readiness Award in 2025.[4]
Career
Khan developed the Future Readiness Score, a framework for assessing organizational readiness, which has been featured in Fast Company Turkey.[5][6]
He created, hosts, and executive produces The Futurist, a documentary series distributed on Amazon Prime Video in over 45 countries.[7] The series features interviews with figures including Lord Adair Turner (former Chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority), Paul Polman (former CEO of Unilever), Daniela Rus (Director of MIT CSAIL), Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford economist), Ben Goertzel (founder of SingularityNET), Naveen Jain (billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Viome), Omani Carson (billionaire investor and founder of the Carson Group), Juan and Jeronimo Bremmer (Spanish billionaire investors), Ricardo Santa Cruz (Mexican real estate billionaire), and actor Chris Tucker. He also hosts The Futurist Podcast, available on over 25 platforms, through which he has interviewed more than 500 executives and industry leaders.
His documentary Blockchain City (2018) features interviews with Grammy Award winner Imogen Heap, Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger.[8] Other documentary films include The Future of Work and The Bitcoin Dilemma (2021).[1][2]
Khan is a founding participant in the GX (Government Experience) initiative under the Prime Minister's Office of the United Arab Emirates.[9] He has worked in the Middle East region on and off for over 25 years. He has delivered TEDx talks at TEDxWilmington, TEDxMississauga, and TEDxChathamKent.[10] Khan serves as a lecturer in the Industry 4.0 Global Executive Post-Graduate Program at Wrocław University of Economics and Business in Poland.[11] He is the founder of Impact Story Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on AI and robotics education for K-12 students.
Publications
Khan has written articles for Forbes, Entrepreneur,[12] and Fast Company.[13]
His books include Metaverse for Dummies (Wiley, 2023).[14] Khan collaborated on After Shock, in which he was profiled as a contributor. His book Undisrupted: Leadership Essentials on Business Transformation, Profitability and Future Readiness (Wiley, 2025) reached #46 on the USA Today bestseller list[15] and appeared on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list.[16]
Recognition
In 2025, Khan was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Future Readiness Award alongside thinkers including Amy Webb, Jane McGonigal, and Rita McGrath.[4]
Undisrupted received the bronze medal at the 2025 North American Book Awards in the Business Leadership category[17] and won the International Impact Book Awards.[18]
In 2026, Playboy Germany named Khan one of their "Menschen 2026" (People of 2026), a list of ten personalities expected to shape the year, alongside figures such as Sylvester Stallone and Gavin Newsom.[19]
Personal life
Khan resides in Toronto, Canada.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ahonen, Elias (October 2021). "Futurist film maker Ian Khan on helping governments combine AI and blockchain". Cointelegraph Magazine. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Khan Says Blockchain Provides Piece of Mind". Bloomberg Radio. July 7, 2021. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Ian Khan: Why IoT will have a more dramatic impact than the Internet". IT World Canada. April 13, 2017. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Future Readiness Award 2025". Thinkers50. November 4, 2025. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Ian Khan shares tips on how to become a future-ready credit union". Co-operative News. July 19, 2022. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Ayral, Güldeniz (June–July 2025). "'Geleceğe Hazır Şirket' Formülü!" [The Future-Ready Company Formula]. Fast Company Turkey (in Türkçe) (33): 138–141.
- ↑ "Ian Khan". IMDb. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Blockchain City (2018)". IMDb. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Government Experience - Ian Khan Profile". GX.ae (UAE Government). Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "TEDxWilmington: Ian Khan". TEDx. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - ↑ "Industry 4.0 Global Executive Post-Graduate Program". Stanversity / Wrocław University of Economics and Business. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Ian Khan - Author Biography". Entrepreneur. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "The future of cryptocurrency: Digital investing trends". Fast Company. June 2021. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Metaverse for Dummies". John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "USA Today Bestseller List". USA Today. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "2025 Medal Winners". North American Book Awards. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "January 2026 International Impact Book Awards". International Impact Book Awards. February 4, 2026. Retrieved March 2026. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Menschen 2026: 10 Menschen, die 2026 prägen werden" [People of 2026: 10 People Who Will Shape 2026]. Playboy Germany (in Deutsch) (2): 65. February 2026.
External links
Category:Living people
Category:Canadian futurologists
Category:Canadian documentary film directors
Category:Canadian non-fiction writers
Category:Canadian television personalities
Category:Film directors from Toronto
Category:Writers from Toronto
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