A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

Man and Machine — an unbeatable team

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

Our great-grandparents did inhuman work in the factories of the Industrial Revolution — because there was no automation yet, no robots, no AI. That work was never made for humans. Once everything inhuman has been digitized away, what remains is what makes us us — the human being. And anyone who thinks AI or robots create unemployment simply hasn't understood what work actually is.

Three Thoughts from the Talk

It's not about replacing people, but about filling positions for which there are no people left.

When all inhuman work is digitalized away, what remains is the human being.

Anyone who thinks AI or robots are taking our jobs has obviously never done any real work themselves.

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.

Strengths & limits, clear

where the machine shines and where humans remain irreplaceable.

Relief, Not Replacement

how AI becomes a team partner that frees up the human element.

Optimism instead of fear

a confident look at how we work together.

When the baby boomers leave and the robots arrive

How to steer your company through the twin upheaval of demographics and artificial intelligence

When software becomes a team player

AI agents — from the tool you operate to the employee you commission

Triple Transition — Energy, Demographics, Digitalization

How Three Crises Become a Mandate to Shape the Future

What participants say about Christoph Holz

Voices from hosts and audiences.

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

★★★★★
Thank you once again for your interesting and inspiring talk!
VFViviane Fenke · ProjektmanagerinTelefónica

Why Christoph

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

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.

Digital Ethicist & Graduate Computer Scientist (TU Munich)

combines a technical foundation with the ethical question of what work means for people.

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 automation, the skills shortage, and robots.

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 great-grandparents' factory keep the conversation going long after the evening's over. 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

Industrial robots

Ever since he built his first industrial articulated-arm robot in 1986, industrial robotics has never let go of Christoph Holz: in 2014 he saw the welding robots at Tesla in Fremont, and in 2026 their next generation at Magna Steyr on the G-Class assembly line. At ABB he explored cobots. On stage, he answers the question of why robots are leaving their cages — and why an industrial robot needs hands with five fingers when three would do.

Manufacturing Industry

Even during his time at technical secondary school (HTL), Holz worked on the production floor at Kahlbacher, the world market leader for snow-clearing technology, and at Krupp in Essen. After his combined studies in computer science and mechanical engineering, Holz consulted for BMW engine manufacturing in Lohof. In his entrepreneurial career, Holz led projects for voestalpine Stahl AG, Thyssen and EGLO. Today Magna, Egger and Siemens bring him to the stage — where he answers the question of why the future of the factory is not a factory: the plant hall solves a problem that will soon no longer exist.

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.

Magna Steyr plant tour G-Class + keynote

In May 2026, Holz visited the Magna Steyr plant in Graz — the Mercedes G-Class production line from the inside.