The end of human evolution and its future. No transhumanism is no solution either.
For ten years, Christoph Holz has carried a chip under his skin. What began as a self-experiment leads straight into the philosophical questions about the development of Homo sapiens — now that its biological evolution is complete and the technological one is just beginning.
What remains when AI takes over everything that can be optimized? The human being. With everything that cannot be optimized.
The digital future only counts if, in the end, it leaves more time for health, family, and everything that can't be digitized.
Every time we gain a new mode of thinking, we give something up. Humans traded photographic thinking for language. What will we trade for AI?
Through vivid metaphors and examples, your guests grasp what technology can do — and where its limits lie.
They separate grand promises from what Human Enhancement actually makes possible.
They understand how technological evolution is replacing the biological kind.
They learn what ten years with a chip under your skin actually feels like.
The Limits, Power and Future of AI Around the Building.
Guidance for Leaders in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
Thought Experiments on the New Leadership in the Age of AI
Voices from hosts and audiences.
Over the past weeks and months, we've worked with Christoph in a wide variety of formats (live, digital, hybrid). The talks themselves are maximally inspiring; beyond that, we got to know a highly professional, dedicated and in every respect fascinating person. It's a great privilege for anyone to be able to work with Christoph. We'll meet again, and we're really looking forward to it.
★★★★★CRChristoph R.
★★★★★Many thanks for the spontaneous and professional support. Christoph Holz was extremely flexible and accompanied the entire event wonderfully. It was a pleasure to follow him and to have further inspiring conversations as well. Thank you very much.
BB.
★★★★★You were clearly the highlight of the event at the Brucknerhaus Linz. Congratulations!
AGAlfred Gunsch
has worn a chip under his skin for ten years and speaks from lived experience, not theoretical distance.
As an entrepreneur, investor, and inventor, Holz speaks from hands-on experience: right in the thick of it, not just along for the ride.
Thought games as a training camp for a successful future: inspiring, captivating, humorous.
Yes: examples and focal points are tailored to your industry in advance with the organizer — here, for instance, to human enhancement, the merging of Man and Machine and digital ethics.
Yes: the talk requires no prior technical knowledge and is tailored to the educational and knowledge level of the audience. Usually Holz joins in beforehand to get to know his listeners.
Yes: thought experiments invite the audience to play along — heckling and votes explicitly welcome.
Yes — courage, to be precise: vivid stories like the chip under the skin spark conversations that outlast the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that empowers people.
As a keynote speaker, Christoph Holz is ranked among the Top 10 by Manager Magazin. Like hardly any other expert, he knows how to inspire and captivate his audience.
Holz has carried an RFID chip under his skin since Cebit 2016.
As a lecturer, Holz teaches Digital Ethics to aspiring engineers at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. Ethics must not moralize with a wagging finger. As Ethics by Design, it has to be part of the development process from the very start.
Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: Digitalethiker Holz ↗
Keynote and panel discussion „Digital Future“ — Holz in fierce debate with philosopher Richard David Precht on the future of work, economy and society.