A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

Pax Algorithmica — the New World Order of AI

Pax Algorithmica — the New World Order of AI

The new digital superpowers between Silicon Valley, Beijing and the Global South

Does Europe stay the plaything of a foreign world order — or do we help shape it? Who benefits when algorithms wreck the business model of the warmongers? Is cyberwar a real war, or a convenient excuse for incompetent system administrators? What can we learn from the Global South before we slide into emerging-market status?

Three Thoughts from the Talk

Inflating online sabotage into cyberwar is a welcome pretext for rearmament.

Cyberwar is the best excuse for system administrators since the discovery of incompetence.

A depopulated autonomous war — devoid of courage and desperation — becomes wholly predictable. A predicted war never takes place.

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.

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Making sense of the new world order

Silicon Valley, Beijing and Europe.

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Strategic Orientation

what world my business and my capital operate in.

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Europe's Role

Opportunities instead of helplessness.

Christoph Holz auf der Bühne
Als TED Speaker auf originaler TED.COM PlattformPanelist Digital Ethics SummitADLER Lackfabrik — FachhandelsshopSiemensEröffnungskeynote didacta 2026

What participants say about Christoph Holz

Voices from hosts and audiences.

★★★★★

Making your enthusiasm and passion tangible, combined with such a high level of professionalism, is a great pleasure and enrichment.

Ivonne DombroweIvonne DombroweFLEET Education Events
★★★★★

With ease and joy he delivers complex topics in a humorous way while still making you think.

FMFelix MeinhardtFilmproduktion

Why Christoph

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

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TED Speaker & Digital Ethicist

his TED.com-curated talk and his teaching post in Digital Ethics prove that he conveys the value questions of AI precisely and with audience appeal.

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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.

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Interactive Keynotes

Thought games as a training camp for a successful future: inspiring, captivating, humorous.

Christoph Holz, lächelnd, mit blauer Fliege

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 defense dominance, commodity intelligence and the Global South.

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 AI straight from the wall socket fuel conversations that last well beyond the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that strengthens Europe.

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

Panel 'Digital Future' against Richard David Precht

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.

Quantum Systems — reconnaissance drones

Quantum Systems — reconnaissance drones

At Germany's drone champion ("Europe's Power House for unmanned systems"): combat-proven in Ukraine, over 850 employees across eight locations, customers ranging from US special forces to the German Bundeswehr.

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STARK — AI defense systems

STARK — AI defense systems

On site at STARK, a NATO supplier founded in 2024: AI-powered, scalable defense solutions, factories in Bavaria and Swindon, over 300 employees, funded among others by the NATO Innovation Fund, with a permanent presence in Ukraine.

ARX Robotics — autonomous ground systems

ARX Robotics — autonomous ground systems

Seeing firsthand how Europe scales ground robotics: autonomous, modular, software-defined unmanned ground systems; €42M Series A backed by the NATO Innovation Fund, among others; 100% European ownership and supply chain.

Kamikaze drone assembled near Munich

Kamikaze drone assembled near Munich

As a trained Rocket Scientist, he assembled a kamikaze drone near Munich.

Lectureship in Digital Ethics, University of Applied Sciences

Lectureship in Digital Ethics, University of Applied Sciences

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 ↗
Panelist Digital Ethics Summit

Panelist Digital Ethics Summit

Panelist at the Digital Ethics Summit on 14 September 2023 aboard the MS RheinGalaxie in Düsseldorf — a summit on the ethics of digitalization, featuring Richard David Precht, Mona Neubaur and Frank Thelen, among others. Plus Digital Sensemaker episode 99 with project lead Vassilios Katsogridakis.

Delegation trips to Brussels — into the heart of regulation

Delegation trips to Brussels — into the heart of regulation

With business delegations, Christoph Holz has twice been where regulation is made: in the European Parliament and at the Directorates-General of the European Commission in Brussels.

TV expert

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.

Book contribution “Rethinking Space — From Digitalization to Decentralization”

Book contribution “Rethinking Space — From Digitalization to Decentralization”

Christoph Holz is a published author: his essay appeared in the anthology “Raum neu denken” by the Institute of Federalism, presented in 2019 at the Parliament in Vienna.

Buchpräsentation im Parlament (Parlamentskorrespondenz) ↗