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Creator, author, and keynote speaker. 800,000+ followers & subscribers. Author of Abundance or Collapse: The Fork in the Road for AI, Robotics, and Civilization.
Independent analysis.
Skin in the game.
Farzad Mesbahi has been tracking the AI and disruption story for 14 years, since 2012. He runs one of the most-watched independent YouTube channels covering AI, Musk Industries, and the future of work.
His first book, Abundance or Collapse: The Fork in the Road for AI, Robotics, and Civilization, lays out the thesis: AI, robotics, and energy are not three separate revolutions. They are one compounding system, and the world has roughly five years to decide whether it builds around the new model or fights it.
Farzad has spoken at the SovAI Summit (El Salvador), and works with corporate audiences ranging from Fortune 500 leadership teams to family offices, helping translate what's actually happening in tech and what it means for their next five years.
Independent analysis
your audience won't get from a vendor.
Most “AI keynote speakers” are either consultants pitching their service or academics describing the past. I'm neither. I'm an independent analyst with skin in the game who has spent 14 years tracking the disruption story and over a year putting it into a book.
I speak to corporate leadership teams, conferences, and private summits about what is actually coming, why most institutions will struggle to adapt, and what to do about it now. I do a maximum of six talks per year so each one gets the depth it deserves.
Request Speaking InquiryOn Stage · El Salvador
SovAI Summit · April 2026Format Options
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Keynote
~30 minutes plus Q&A. The standard. In-person or virtual.
Fireside Chat
30 to 60 minutes. Lighter prep, conversational on-stage interview format.
Half-Day Workshop
Deep dive with the leadership team, custom to your business. Add-on after the keynote.
Multi-Session Offsite
For executive teams or boards making major strategy bets. Day-long or multi-day.
Virtual Keynote
For global teams or distributed audiences. Same content, same rigor.
The book on
what's actually coming.
Abundance or Collapse: The Fork in the Road for AI, Robotics, and Civilization is the result of fourteen years of obsessive tracking and one year of full-time writing. It lays out the convergence of AI, robotics, and energy as one compounding system, the disruption it's about to cause, and a practical investment and personal framework for navigating it.
This is not a doomer book. This is not a hype book. This is the honest version of what is coming and what you can do about it.
“We're standing at a civilizational fork in the road. The path we take over the next decade leads to one of two destinations: abundance or collapse. There is no comfortable middle ground.”
- The Convergence
- Full Self-Driving and the Death of Human Drivers
- Optimus and the $40 Trillion Labor Market
- Energy Abundance: The Forgotten Third Leg
- The Barbell
- The Innovator's Dilemma at Global Scale
- US vs China: The Race That Matters
- What Government Must Do (And Probably Won't)
- The Transition Nobody's Preparing For
- The Investment Framework
- The Data Moat Principle
- Conviction & Concentration
- Your Personal Roadmap
Buying 100+ copies for your team or event? Special pricing available, plus optional book signing or virtual Q&A with Farzad. speaking@farzad.ai
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