A Keynote by Christoph Holz Sets the Tone for Your Event

The self-driving supply chain

Autonomous logistics — when the truck loses its cab

The self-driving truck is no longer a vehicle but a transport robot on wheels — and the moment no one sits at the wheel, the first thing to vanish is the cab. Autonomous logistics turns the entire supply chain into software: self-sorting warehouses, fleets that never rest, robots and drones on the last mile. What does that mean for driver shortages, liability and the supply of tomorrow?

Three Thoughts from the Talk

It's not about replacing people, but about filling positions for which there are no people left.

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.

In the past, a car manufacturer produced almost everything centrally. Today, the same task is handled by a large network of many suppliers. Company size is no longer an advantage. Economies of scale are being digitalized away. The economy is becoming more fragmented and decentralized 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 big picture

You'll understand how transport becomes a self-steering software chain.

Hype filter

They tell apart what autonomous logistics can do today and what's just brochure talk.

Strategic foresight

They spot where value creation is being redistributed across the supply chain.

Insult 4.0

Apple, Google, Tesla — the three most powerful companies in the world and the power question of industry

The future comes well packaged

AI, robots, smart packaging — and the next packaging economy

The future of the factory is not a factory

When smart universal machines decentralize manufacturing and put people back at the center.

What participants say about Christoph Holz

Voices from hosts and audiences.

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

★★★★★
Normally you only get talks like this at the pricier conferences. So I think it's fantastic that BMW gives us employees the chance to hear talks from renowned speakers.
MIMitarbeiterBMW

★★★★★
Christoph hat mich mit seinem Vortrag begeistert. Er ist fachlich kompetent und rhetorisch hervorragend. Es war eine interessante, humorvolle und kurzweilige Rede.
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Why Christoph

AI Entrepreneur & Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

founded and pitched his own tech startup in the Valley, and knows autonomous systems from hands-on experience in the venture world.

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 your industry in advance with the organizer — here, for instance, to driver shortages, automation and 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 — courage, to be precise: vivid stories like the 30-tonner outside the kindergarten spark conversations that last well beyond the evening. 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

Logistics

Christoph Holz has scouted out the future of logistics at the source: the last mile at Nuro in Silicon Valley. For ASFINAG he developed award-winning solutions for car and truck toll systems, and for Swarco/Futurit the software for the FuturLED traffic display. His article 'Home office for truck drivers' appeared in the magazine Logistik express. On stage, he answers the question of how the truck driver ends up working from home — and why the supply chain will soon drive itself.

Autonomous Mobility

Autonomous mobility follows Christoph Holz from the road all the way into the air: in 2014 he saw the welding robots at Tesla in Fremont, in 2026 the production of the G-Class at Magna Steyr. In Silicon Valley he found the autonomous Nuro delivery van parked at the curb and experienced the shock of his first autonomous cab ride in San Francisco; at ARX Robotics in Munich, the autonomous ground systems for Europe's security. On stage he answers the question of why the car is becoming an app — and the driver is moving to the home office.

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.