A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

Real Estate Between Bits and Concrete

Real Estate Between Bits and Concrete

The Limits, Power and Future of AI Around the Building.

What does Artificial Intelligence mean for the real estate industry of tomorrow? Christoph Holz — digital ethicist, graduate computer scientist (Dipl.-Inform.) and TV expert — draws the arc from concrete to artificial intelligence: what AI can really do around buildings, marketing and management, where its limits lie, and why location is being reinvented right now. Using vivid examples from Zurich's future districts to Silicon Valley, he shows how spaces become experiences and what remains when the office of the future is no longer an office — entertaining, interactive and deliberately optimistic. Those who understand how, win.

Three Thoughts from the Talk

Location as an efficiency trap: The office of the future is no longer an office.

Why do we even still need cities when everyone has a smartphone today?

In the 18th century, weavers left their home office to go to work. Only in the factory did the steam engine deliver the torque needed for the great looms. But steam engines have been retired. So why are there still factories?

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.

01

Clarity instead of hype

Your guests understand what AI can really do around buildings, marketing and management — and where its limits lie.

02

Location, rethought

From the square meter to service: a vision of the future that thinks office, retail and living together.

03

The courage to get practical

Try it, experiment, never trust blindly: a mindset that owners, developers and managers can put into practice right away.

Christoph Holz auf der Bühne
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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.

★★★★★
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★★★★★

The participants were all thrilled. By your talk, the innovative format and the many insights into the latest AI developments.

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★★★★★

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.

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Why Christoph

01

Lecturer in Digital Ethics

teaches Digital Ethics for engineers at the FH Upper Austria in Steyr.

02

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.

03

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 focus areas are tailored to the industry with the organizer in advance — here, for instance, to PropTech, land use and the future of office and retail.

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 it's about courage: vivid stories like Zurich's Hunziker Areal spark conversation long after the evening ends. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that strengthens the industry.

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

Forms of Living

Forms of Living

Christoph Holz knows new forms of living first-hand: he visited Switzerland's flagship cooperative projects — the Kalkbreite cooperative and the Hunziker Areal "Mehr als Wohnen" in Zurich, as well as Kraftwerk1 Zwicky Süd, where mixed-use developments reconnect living, working and community in new ways. On stage, he shows how digitalization and Artificial Intelligence are shaping neighborhoods, sharing models and the way we'll live together tomorrow.

Lecturer in Digital Ethics

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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Kalkbreite Cooperative Zurich — hall living

Kalkbreite Cooperative Zurich — hall living

Convinced on-site of how pioneering urban living space takes shape: a mixed hub of housing, commerce and dining above a covered tram depot, a 2,500 m² terrace in the city center; tour led by architect Pascal Müller.

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Generative AI in Enterprise Use

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