A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

Education is relationship work

How AI Delivers on the Educational Ideal Wilhelm von Humboldt Once Promised Us

Are kids getting dumber in the age of AI? Quite the opposite. Wilhelm von Humboldt invented the modern education system. He didn't want students who knew the answers — he wanted people who asked the questions. Personal growth, individual learning paths, relationships instead of a class-period-subject grind. His ideal went unfulfilled for 200 years — buried under an industrial mass education that shaped children into cadets, workers, and consumers. Artificial intelligence is finally redeeming it — and turning education into what it was always meant to be: relationship work.

Three Thoughts from the Talk

Education was never about transferring knowledge, but about relationship. When the machine takes over the knowledge, there is finally room for what only humans can do.

For 200 years, the humanist ideal of education was a promise without a budget. AI is the first private tutor every child can afford.

It is not children who grow dumber in the age of AI — it is the rhythm of grade, lesson, and subject, which standardized their curiosity, that finally becomes obsolete.

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.

Humboldt meets AI

the educational ideal in the age of AI.

Relationship at the core

what no algorithm can replace.

Personalized Learning Paths

how AI does justice to every child.

Nation state as a service

What does Facebook still lack to be a real state? Estonia already has it.

The Future Is Well Insured

The Insurance Industry Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Trust.

Home office for waiters

Surprising solutions from the digital world — how AI and smart machines help make hosting a joy.

What participants say about Christoph Holz

Voices from hosts and audiences.

Forward-looking, humorous, profound, entertaining and insightful. That's Christoph Holz on stage. After a long Corona break, I had the special pleasure of experiencing him live and in 360 degrees. The breadth of his knowledge is enormous. And like few others, he knows how to fire up your own synapses. And then there's something extra. Personally engaging and close in one-on-one conversation. An experience on stage and a joy in direct dialogue. Thank you, Christoph Holz.
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I kept thinking about Christoph Holz's exciting thought experiments long afterwards. The talk truly inspired me. I was greatly amused by the humorous anecdotes. Keep it up! I'm already looking forward to seeing you again!
MWMartina W.

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Christoph Holz is a wonderful personality. He has a knack for captivating audiences on stage. His talk rightly earned a Golden Award. Pure inspiration!
LCLuigi G. - MENTALCAMP.com

Why Christoph

Lecturer in Digital Ethics with a long-standing teaching post

Christoph teaches himself and knows from firsthand experience how educational relationships succeed or fail in the digital age.

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 focal points are tailored to the industry in advance with the organizer — here, for instance, to individual learning paths, the AI tutor, and relationship work.

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 truck on the pedestrian bridge spark conversations that outlast the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that empowers our children.

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

Lecturer in Digital Ethics

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 ↗

As a TED Speaker on the original TED.COM platform

Christoph Holz is featured as a TED Speaker on the original TED.com platform.

TED.COM ↗

Teaching assignment FH Kufstein — Web & Mobile Usability

Holz has taught 'Web & Mobile Usability' at FH Kufstein Tirol since 2012.

fh-kufstein.ac.at ↗