A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

Staying healthy longer with smartwatch, AI and common sense

What doctors and algorithms are now doing for our health — and what we want to decide for ourselves

Industrial medicine doubled our healthy lifespan in 200 years — so why shouldn't digital medicine pull off the same in 20? The app reads symptoms more reliably than your GP, the wearable knows my illness before I even cough. Five thought experiments on what digitalization can do for our health — and where common sense gets the final word.

Three Thoughts from the Talk

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

When the machine lifts, turns, and documents, the scarcest resource in care becomes available again: time for the human being.

The digital future only counts if, in the end, it leaves more time for health, family, and everything that can't be digitized.

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.

Sovereignty

You keep control over your health decisions instead of handing them off to apps.

Orientation

They tell genuine medical value from data gimmickry.

More healthy years

You'll understand how prevention with AI wins years of life.

The self-driving hospital

Thought experiments on the future of medical work

When the care robot rings twice

Thought experiments on aging and care with dignity

The digital future that matters

What artificial intelligence really means for your health, your family and your wealth

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

★★★★★
I had the pleasure of experiencing your talk at the RRB Hall i.T., and I'd like to sincerely thank you for the inspiring and refreshing presentation.
ASAndreas Schmidinger-SingerAUVA – Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt

★★★★★
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

Why Christoph

TED speaker & digital health ethicist

his curated TED Talk on ted.com revolves around precisely these thought experiments on AI and healthcare.

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 the industry in advance with the organizer — here, for instance, to prevention, wearables, and digital twins.

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 the AI doctor in your pocket fuel conversations that last well beyond the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that Man strengthens.

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

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 ↗

AI in Healthcare

Christoph Holz knows care from both sides: during his community service with the Red Cross in St. Johann he pulled people from crashed cars and brought elderly people back to their homes after Christmas. His wife Carmen is an anesthesiologist, palliative care physician and ethics consultant — his daily sparring partner for the borderline cases of medicine. For the Helios hospitals, holzweg built the KDOK data capture system, for Novartis the microsite system and the Nicotinell app. On stage, he answers the question of what happens when the care robot rings twice — and where AI helps in care while humans remain irreplaceable.

Emotional AI

Whether machines can read feelings, Christoph Holz checked right at the source: at Tawny.AI in Munich he saw how AI recognizes emotions from faces, at audEERING how it reads moods from the voice, at jambit the applications across all industries — plus the SHORE real-time facial recognition from Fraunhofer IIS. On stage he answers the question of why AI can recognize emotions without ever feeling them — and what that means for care, consulting, and advertising.