---
title: "Ishan Anand"
category: "people"
role: "Chief AI Officer (CAIO)"
company: "InsightSciences.ai"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishananand/"
twitter: "https://x.com/ianand"
website: "https://ishananand.com/"
blog: "https://ishananand.com/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Ishan Anand

## Profile
Chief AI Officer (CAIO) at [[insightsciences-ai|InsightSciences.ai]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishananand/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/ianand)
- [Website](https://ishananand.com/)
- [Blog](https://ishananand.com/)

## Biography
Ishan Anand is Chief AI Officer (CAIO) at [[insightsciences-ai|InsightSciences.ai]], where he builds LLM-powered synthetic persona systems for market research, using generative AI to model audiences, predict preferences, and validate synthetic methods against real-world data. He has 15+ years of experience leading product, engineering, and technology strategy, including roles as VP of Product and CTO across companies from early stage to acquisition. Ishan is also known for his AI enablement and training consulting work, making complex AI systems understandable and actionable for businesses, most notably through Spreadsheets Are All You Need, an educational project and companion course that implements GPT-2 entirely in Excel.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-ishan-anand-will-ai-predict-people-like-we-predict-the-weather-alternate-title-a-field-guide-to-synthetic-personas-for-market-research]] — Will AI predict people like we predict the weather? (alternate title “A field guide to synthetic personas for market research”) (2026-06-30, 2:50pm-3:10pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-ishan-anand-will-ai-predict-people-like-we-predict-the-weather-alternate-title-a-field-guide-to-synthetic-personas-for-market-research|Will AI predict people like we predict the weather? (alternate title “A field guide to synthetic personas for market research”)]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-ZuiJjkbX0Og` — 7 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-ZuiJjkbX0Og`: lines, vanilla, javascript, spread, word, visit, discount, full.
- Evidence links for `youtube-ZuiJjkbX0Og`: [[youtube-ZuiJjkbX0Og]], [[youtube-ZuiJjkbX0Og-slides]], [[youtube-ZuiJjkbX0Og-dense-slides]], [[youtube-ZuiJjkbX0Og-reconstructed-slides]]