A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

AI and the Rediscovery of Entrepreneurship

Why the digital future belongs to the Mittelstand

The economic future belongs to micro and mid-sized businesses, because before our very eyes AI is digitizing away economies of scale and strengthening entrepreneurial cooperation. In an artificial world, nothing matters more than human relationships. And here the small players have the edge. Christoph Holz blends economics and humanity into an optimistic picture: AI doesn't strengthen the corporation, but the entrepreneurial human being. Those who understand how, win.

Three Thoughts from the Talk

There is nothing more you can become in life than an entrepreneur.

Whoever once wanted to climb the career ladder would rather start a company today.

AI pulverizes transaction costs, and thus economies of scale. The future belongs to small and medium-sized firms. For in an artificial world, nothing matters more than human relationships. And here, the small ones are ahead.

What Your Audience Takes Away from This Talk

Through vivid metaphors and examples, your guests grasp what technology can do — and where its limits lie.

Why the Future Belongs to the Small

transaction costs digitalized away.

The relationship advantage

why mid-sized companies come out on top.

Strategic confidence

play to your own strengths.

Man and Machine — an unbeatable team

How working alongside cognitive robots and AI gives work back its humanity.

Pax Algorithmica — the New World Order of AI

The new digital superpowers between Silicon Valley, Beijing and the Global South

The Cognitive Revolution of Humanoid Robots

The robots are finally coming — to the trades, the household, medicine and much more.

What participants say about Christoph Holz

Voices from hosts and audiences.

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.

★★★★★
Christoph hat mich mit seinem Vortrag begeistert. Er ist fachlich kompetent und rhetorisch hervorragend. Es war eine interessante, humorvolle und kurzweilige Rede.
II.

★★★★★
The guests loved it – they would have happily heard a lot more from you :) Maybe we can pick this up again on another occasion.
JAJulian Andretter · ProjektmanagerMetzler:Vater / Telefónica

Why Christoph

A trained computer scientist and rocket scientist, he is a business angel, author — and a cyborg.

Entrepreneur & VC investor

has founded companies himself, pitched in Silicon Valley, and today actively invests in early-stage AI startups.

Authentic Wealth of Experience

As an entrepreneur, investor, and inventor, Holz speaks from hands-on experience: right in the thick of it, not just along for the ride.

Interactive Keynotes

Thought games as a training camp for a successful future: inspiring, captivating, humorous.

Questions and Answers about the Talk

Does the talk address the specific needs of the audience?

Yes: examples and key topics are tailored to the industry in advance with the organizer — here, for instance, to economies of scale, transaction costs, and entrepreneurship.

Are participants met where they are?

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.

Is the talk interactive?

Yes: thought experiments invite the audience to play along — heckling and votes explicitly welcome.

Does anything from the talk stick — and does it inspire courage or fear?

Yes — courage, to be precise: vivid stories like the return of the handshake spark conversations that outlast the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that empowers small and medium-sized businesses.

Who is the best keynote speaker for AI, robotics and the future?

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.

Christoph Holz's Expertise

Trade license 'IT services'

Active trade license for IT services since 01.11.1995 — 30 years of formal commercial qualification in Austria.

One of Europe's first internet agencies — holzweg

As early as 1994, digital marketing pioneer Christoph Holz founded one of Europe's first internet agencies, which he led until 2017. Clients like Swarovski, Red Bull and VOEST — and a finalist for the State Innovation Award for ASFINAG.

holzweg.com ↗

Organization and moderation of the Open Source Day

In 2010, Christoph Holz organized and moderated the 1st Tyrolean Open Source Day at the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce — with LiMux from Munich and OpenStreetMap as guests.

TV expert

Christoph Holz is a sought-after TV expert on digitalization, AI and the future — whether in the studio or from his private home film studio — appearing on RTL, ServusTV, ProSieben, Sat.1, n-tv, WELT, Deutsche Welle, Hamburg1, ORF and CNBC, among others.

Generative AI in Enterprise Use

On stage, Holz shows how companies turn ChatGPT, Anthropic & Co. into business success — and where the limits lie.