A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

Magnifica Humanitas — The Pope and AI

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

The Catholic Church survived the plague, the printing press, Galileo, and Darwin — and spent 2000 years reflecting on the soul, dignity, and death. It's no coincidence that Pope Leo XIV grounded his name in the Digital Revolution: just as Leo XIII responded to the steam engine in 1891, the Church today responds to the thinking machine. When AI can imitate everything human, the oldest question returns: What is man? Christoph Holz — Rocket Scientist and digital ethicist — guides you with wit and depth through six thought experiments, from digital resurrection to dignity at the end of life. Magnifica humanitas: the magnificence of the human being that no machine can replace. Whoever grasps this, wins.

Three Thoughts from the Talk

It is not the institution with the fastest server that gives the best answer to AI, but the one with the longest experience in dignity.

What remains when AI takes over everything that can be optimized? The human being. With everything that cannot be optimized.

AI is not a technical term, but a philosophical creation myth. It represents computer science's eternal longing to create a life form of its own.

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.

You gain a clear picture of what makes us human

what remains of the human being when the machine takes over everything that can be imitated.

You understand the big ethical questions of AI

Soul, dignity, death, conscience — no jargon and no sermon.

You recognize the pattern of history

how societies have translated every foundational innovation into values, from the steam engine to AI.

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.

The Future Is Well Insured

The Insurance Industry Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Trust.

The lowest common truth of AI

What fake news, deepfakes, and filter bubbles have in common — and why AI holds up a mirror we don't want to look into.

What participants say about Christoph Holz

Voices from hosts and audiences.

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

★★★★★
At the Insight Health Symposium he delivered an entertaining, crystal-clear talk on AI and an outlook into the digital world, richly illustrated with imagery. Simply brilliant!
TETeilnehmer

★★★★★
Really great talk — genuinely fun to listen to and to think along with.
ESErik SüßmannEbner Medien Group

Why Christoph

Lecturer in Digital Ethics (FH OÖ)

Human dignity, responsibility, and our image of humanity in the AI age are his field of teaching.

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 human dignity, care, and resurrection.

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 avatar of the late grandmother spark conversations that outlast the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that empowers people.

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 ↗

Panel 'Digital Future' against Richard David Precht

Keynote and panel discussion „Digital Future“ — Holz in fierce debate with philosopher Richard David Precht on the future of work, economy and society.