Yossi Ghinsberg
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Technology Conferences

Keynote Speaker for Technology Conferences

Tech conferences have high speaker standards. Yossi Ghinsberg has keynoted for Google, Apple, and Microsoft. He brings a story that no product launch or innovation panel can match.

20 days alone in the Amazon

1M+ books sold

Voted Most Unforgettable Speaker

Google / Apple / Microsoft / BMW

Technology audiences are smart, information-dense, and skeptical of anything that feels thin. They have also spent years building products and systems to reduce uncertainty. Yossi Ghinsberg's story does something unusual for that audience: it shows them what happens when all the systems are gone and the only thing left is the human. That tends to land.

He has keynoted for Google, Apple, and Microsoft. He is not a technology speaker in the conventional sense. He is a human speaker for the technological moment: someone who can give a room of engineers, product leaders, and founders a perspective on decision-making, resilience, and navigation that no technical framework produces. The AI era has not made human instinct obsolete. If anything, it has made the question of what humans do better more urgent. Yossi's Amazon story is the clearest possible answer.

His talk maps directly onto what technology organisations face now: disruption, the collapse of certainty as a management tool, the need to move without the full picture. In 1981, he faced all of that at 22 years old, alone, with no connection to the outside world. He came out the other side with a set of principles that hold up across 40 years and across every industry he has since worked in.

What your audience walks away with

The story opens the room. These are the tools that stay after it.

Snake Breath

A breathing technique for acute stress, born in the jungle and taught live on stage. Your audience uses it the same day.

Full Sensory Activation

A practice for presence under pressure. The antidote to running on autopilot when the stakes are highest.

Real vs. imaginary survival

A framework that separates true threats from the manufactured stress that burns teams out. Most pressure is imaginary. Knowing the difference changes how people work.

A shared language

Teams quote the story for years. The next step, the river, the jungle. It becomes shorthand for how the team faces hard things.

Best fit

  • Annual kickoffs and sales conferences
  • Leadership summits and executive offsites
  • Insurance and financial services (MDRT main stage, 2025)
  • Resilience, wellbeing, and change programs

Formats and fee

  • Keynote. 60 minutes, tailored to your event theme
  • Keynote + fireside chat. Adds 20 to 30 minutes of moderated Q&A
  • Workshop. Half day or full day, hands-on with the techniques

Most engagements fall between USD 30,000 and 50,000, depending on format, location, and travel. Every enquiry receives a tailored proposal within 48 hours.

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