A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

Nation state as a service

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

On the journey through cyberspace, your Google ID matters far more than your passport. Facebook has a police force. Computer games have a currency. We usually only know all that from nation-states. Nigeria's central bank has a cryptocurrency. Estonia has a fully automated, impartial, citizen-friendly online bureaucracy. Australia is listed in a corporate register. That things won't stay the way they are is obvious. To figure out where we want to go, we first need to know what's actually going on.

Three Thoughts from the Talk

Fully automated bureaucracy is not only incorruptible and impartial, but so swift that Europe's economic growth can finally catch up with global reality.

Politics is the futile art of overcoming one's own irrelevance while patronizing people who know better themselves.

It is the supreme feat of political manipulation to steer our surveillance skepticism toward corporations—and thereby away from the state, whose true instrument of power it is.

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.

The big picture

You understand how platforms are taking over the functions of the state.

Geopolitical orientation

They make sense of identity, currency and power in cyberspace.

Strategic foresight

They recognize what platform states mean for business and politics.

Education is relationship work

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

When the Concrete Mixer Drives a Tesla

Artificial Intelligence and the Next Construction Economy

Man and Machine — an unbeatable team

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

What participants say about Christoph Holz

Voices from hosts and audiences.

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

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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

★★★★★
Christoph has an incredibly broad expertise and manages to translate the topics of the future into today's everyday life.
Armin SkoffMicrosoft Austria

Why Christoph

Digital Ethicist & Lecturer

teaches the societal tensions between digital platforms and state sovereignty at FH OÖ.

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 your industry in advance with the organizer — here, for instance, to e-government, decentralization and digital identity.

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 that something is courage: vivid stories like Estonia's fully automated online bureaucracy fuel conversations that last well beyond the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that strengthens the region.

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

Estonia E-Residency

Estonian e-resident since 2020

Staatspreis Digital Solutions 2017 — finalist

visalyze was a finalist at the very first Staatspreis Digital Solutions 2017 — with the project "Austrias Next President" (visualizing the Hofer-vs-Van-der-Bellen runoff as a daily online weather report).

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.

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