A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

The Cognitive Revolution of Humanoid Robots

The robots are finally coming — to the trades, the household, medicine and much more.

For forty years the robot stood in its cage, bolted to the factory floor — blind and deaf. Now it's getting eyes, legs and perception — and becoming the first machine without a fixed purpose. Freed from the cage, it conquers one new domain after another: medicine, the household, the trades.

Three Thoughts from the Talk

Why does a robotic hand need five fingers when three would do just fine?

Why do we lock industrial robots in cages? So they can't break out?

For decades we feared the robots would take our jobs. Demographics reverse the sentence: we are running out of people—and the machines are arriving just in time.

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

They understand how the robot travels from the factory through the workshop and into the home.

Hype filter

They tell science fiction apart from what humanoids can really do.

Strategic foresight

They grasp what the purposeless universal machine means for value creation and competitive standing.

AI and the Rediscovery of Entrepreneurship

Why the digital future belongs to the Mittelstand

Pax Algorithmica — the New World Order of AI

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

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

What participants say about Christoph Holz

Voices from hosts and audiences.

Over the past weeks and months, we've worked with Christoph in a wide variety of formats (live, digital, hybrid). The talks themselves are maximally inspiring; beyond that, we got to know a highly professional, dedicated and in every respect fascinating person. It's a great privilege for anyone to be able to work with Christoph. We'll meet again, and we're really looking forward to it.
★★★★★
CRChristoph R.

★★★★★
Many thanks for the spontaneous and professional support. Christoph Holz was extremely flexible and accompanied the entire event wonderfully. It was a pleasure to follow him and to have further inspiring conversations as well. Thank you very much.
BB.

★★★★★
You were clearly the highlight of the event at the Brucknerhaus Linz. Congratulations!
AGAlfred Gunsch

Why Christoph

Expertise in robotics

Ever since he built his first industrial articulated robot in 1986, robotics has never let go of Christoph Holz: in 2014 he saw the welding robots at Tesla in Fremont, in 2026 their evolution at Magna Steyr on the G-Class assembly line. At ABB he explored cobots, at ANYbotics four-legged inspection robots and at Mimic the training of humanoid robots. 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.

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 key topics are tailored to the industry in advance with the organizer — here, for instance, to manufacturing, the skills shortage, and humanoid 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 — and that something is courage: vivid stories like the one-armed bandit in bright orange fuel conversations that last well beyond the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that strengthens the trade.

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

Robotics

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.

Generative AI in Enterprise Use

On stage, Holz shows how companies turn ChatGPT, Anthropic & Co. into business success — and where the limits lie.