A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

The self-driving hospital

Thought experiments on the future of medical work

Did I become a doctor to compete with software over the better diagnosis — or to accompany my patients on their road to recovery? Did I become a surgeon to spend countless hours in inhuman postures cutting into people — or to heal them? Is it too much to ask of AI that it take the routine off medicine's shoulders and give back what made it a calling?

Three Thoughts from the Talk

Whoever fears that software diagnoses better has forgotten that no one gets well from a diagnosis, but from a hand that holds them.

The robot detects the fall before it happens — only humans still detect the tears.

A surgeon should heal, not spend hours hunched in an inhuman posture. Let the robot hold the blade, and the doctor can lead the treatment again.

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 Doctor's Work of Tomorrow

the doctor with the algorithm.

Responsibility stays human

where humans are irreplaceable.

Concrete images

Thought experiments on the hospital of tomorrow.

When the care robot rings twice

Thought experiments on aging and care with dignity

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

The Cognitive Revolution of Humanoid Robots

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

What participants say about Christoph Holz

Voices from hosts and audiences.

Forward-looking, humorous, profound, entertaining and insightful. That's Christoph Holz on stage. After a long Corona break, I had the special pleasure of experiencing him live and in 360 degrees. The breadth of his knowledge is enormous. And like few others, he knows how to fire up your own synapses. And then there's something extra. Personally engaging and close in one-on-one conversation. An experience on stage and a joy in direct dialogue. Thank you, Christoph Holz.
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Christoph Holz is a wonderful personality. He has a knack for captivating audiences on stage. His talk rightly earned a Golden Award. Pure inspiration!
LCLuigi G. - MENTALCAMP.com

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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!
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Why Christoph

Digital Ethicist & Computer Scientist

combines technical AI expertise (TU Munich) with ethical reflection on what machines may and should take off medicine's hands.

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 AI diagnostics, surgical robotics, and predictive health.

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 — courage, to be precise: vivid stories like the self-driving hospital spark conversations that last well beyond the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that strengthens the doctors.

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.

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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.