Thought experiments on aging and care with dignity
Did I become a caregiver to work through checklists — or to be there for people? Is it too much to ask of AI to take the routine off care's hands and give back what made it a calling?
The robot detects the fall before it happens — only humans still detect the tears.
Aging with dignity: It can't be done without care robots!
When the machine lifts, turns, and documents, the scarcest resource in care becomes available again: time for the human being.
Through vivid metaphors and examples, your guests grasp what technology can do — and where its limits lie.
how technology makes care more human.
more time for care.
without the cold tech vibe.
What doctors and algorithms are now doing for our health — and what we want to decide for ourselves
Thought experiments on the future of medical work
The robots are finally coming — to the trades, the household, medicine and much more.
Voices from hosts and audiences.
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
★★★★★That was absolutely fascinating last night. Thank you for letting me be part of it. What a studio setup.
APArne Peterson · Mitglied der GeschäftsleitungFleet Events GmbH
★★★★★I'm genuinely, absolutely thrilled by this talk! Wow! It's a real joy to listen to!
PEPascal EidEbner Medien Group
teaches Digital Ethics at FH Upper Austria and poses exactly the questions this talk needs: What may AI do in care work, and what must remain human?
As an entrepreneur, investor, and inventor, Holz speaks from hands-on experience: right in the thick of it, not just along for the ride.
Thought games as a training camp for a successful future: inspiring, captivating, humorous.
Yes: examples and focal points are tailored to your industry in advance with the organizer — here, for instance, to robotics, skills shortages and documentation.
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.
Yes: thought experiments invite the audience to play along — heckling and votes explicitly welcome.
Yes — courage, to be precise: vivid stories like the care robot that rings twice spark conversations that last well beyond the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that strengthens the caregivers.
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 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.
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.
Christoph Holz is featured as a TED Speaker on the original TED.com platform.
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