A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

Law Between Calculation and Judgment

The Future of Law: Artificial Intelligence Meets Human Judgment

What does Artificial Intelligence mean for the legal practice of tomorrow? Christoph Holz — digital ethicist, graduate computer scientist (Dipl.-Inform.) and court-sworn IT expert witness — explains why algorithms are by no means racist, why hallucination is a blessing, and why neural language models are a dead end. And he shows how deontic AI finally resolves Jørgensen's Dilemma. Using vivid examples, Holz demonstrates what AI can do in law, where its limits lie and where the journey is heading — entertaining, interactive and deliberately optimistic. Those who understand how, win.

Five Thoughts from the Talk

Anyone who believes that neural AI sometimes hallucinates is wrong. It always hallucinates. But with a little luck, it sometimes happens to agree with reality.

For some, it is an imposition. But responsibility is what makes us human. And responsibility can never be digitized.

If you hoped AI would finally rid us of lawyers, I have to disappoint you. When one lawyer with AI delivers the same as five without, there will be five times more cases. More people can finally afford legal certainty. If that isn't progress.

Generative AI — neural networks in general — is based on statistics. And statistics is and remains the dictatorship of the average.

Ethics are uncomfortable. Otherwise they would be compliance.

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.

Clarity instead of hype

Your guests will understand what AI in law can really do and where its limits lie.

A vision of the future: deontic AI

A look at the next generation of AI reveals where legal practice and legal tech are heading.

The courage to get practical

Try it, experiment, never trust blindly: an attitude that law firms and legal departments can put into practice right away.

The myth of artificial intelligence

Where it comes from, where it leads, what it can do — and what it will never be able to do.

Magnifica Humanitas — The Pope and AI

Why, of all things, the world's oldest institution gives the smartest answer to artificial intelligence

The Future Is Well Insured

The Insurance Industry Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Trust.

What participants say about Christoph Holz

Voices from hosts and audiences.

Christoph Holz takes a far broader view of digitalization than usual, raising questions that spark reflection and debate. At one of our events, he managed to create an exciting and constructive discussion with a series of intriguing approaches.
★★★★★
GKGabi Küpper · Marketing-ManagerinHewlett Packard Enterprise - HPE

★★★★★
Brillant: die konstruktive Mischung aus Philosophie, Soziologie, (Waren) -Wirtschaft - Geldwirtschaft, Technik, IT und Humor :-) sehr interessant, sehr kurzweilig und eine neue Perspektive generierender Vortrag - liebe Grüße (
AFAndrea Drack-FurchSigmund Freud Privatuniversität

★★★★★
He's arguably one of the most distinguished figures in his field. Hardly anyone has digital transformation on their radar as comprehensively, as critically, and at the same time as entertainingly as he does.
Jörg RositzkeHamburg 1 Fernsehen

Why Christoph

Court-appointed expert

sworn and court-certified IT expert (OLG Innsbruck): knows courtrooms from the inside.

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 together with the organiser — here, for instance, to AI-drafted briefs, legal tech and liability questions.

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 — and courage at that: vivid stories like the judge algorithm from California provide talking points that last well beyond the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that strengthens the law firm.

Who's the best keynote speaker for AI and digital ethics?

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

Court-sworn IT expert witness

As a court-sworn IT expert witness, Holz doesn't offer opinions but expert reports — with an authority recognized by Austria's courts.

LegalTech Angel Investor

Christoph Holz knows LegalTech from contract automation to regulation. At Cake Equity, where he is an early-stage investor, corporate law becomes software: shares, options, SAFEs and ESOPs are created in a legally watertight way at the click of a button instead of via a law firm. And at Free Street, formerly Braveno, he is on board as a highly regulated crypto exchange turns compliance and licensing into the actual product. On stage, Holz answers the question of why today's most exciting startups emerge at the border between code and law, and how contracts become software — and vice versa.

cakeequity.com ↗

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 ↗

US patent application deontological AI — nslogic.ai

Holz is co-inventor of a patent for deontological AI, filed in the US in 2026, the successor to generative AI, which has proven to be a dead end.

neurosymboliclogic.com ↗

Studied the Code of Hammurabi at the Louvre – the oldest code

For Holz, the Code of Hammurabi in the Louvre is society's first piece of programming — laws as code, carved in stone. And with its caravan rules, it's also the oldest documented insurance in the world.