Speaker Anitra Eggler

Anitra Eggler has loved and lived and breathed technology since 1998. That is precisely why she has also been exploring its side effects for the past 20 years.

From email overload to mobile phone addiction to ‘AI brain fry’, she highlights the impact of digitalisation on people – and how people and businesses can make the most of it. Not by becoming less digital, but by doing it better. And always: people first.

As a journalist, digital pioneer, author and publisher, she has been among the first for three decades to put new technologies to practical use, scrutinise them critically and make them easy for others to understand.

Long before ‘digital detox’ became a buzzword, she brought issues such as email overload, constant distraction and digital stress to the fore – and played a decisive role in shaping the screen-life-balance debate in German-speaking countries through her books, media appearances and lectures.

Today, she is exploring AI with the same curiosity, practical experience and tenacity that saw her transform from a start-up manager into a digital detox pioneer in 2010.

Whilst many are still debating what AI will be capable of in the future, Anitra Eggler is investigating what AI is already doing to us right now. With our attention. Our relationships. Our thinking. Our productivity. Our judgement. And our sense of reality.

Anitra Eggler doesn’t just talk about the future – she puts it to the test: she takes ChatGPT onto the stage, scales up her publishing house with an AI team, and regularly turns herself into a living laboratory. From AI dating to ‘dumbphones’: whilst others churn out buzzwords, she offers practical reality checks and concrete ideas that help people move forward straight away.

Anitra Eggler speaks so authentically about everyday digital life that people find themselves laughing, nodding – and using their mobiles differently after her talk than they did before.

Anitra Eggler Lecture topics

• PRODUCTIVITY IS DEAD.

More output. Faster pace. More opportunities. And yet many people are still struggling to make headway with AI. Why? Because the old rules for success no longer apply. Anitra Eggler explains why AI speeds up the rat race and scales up false productivity – and which three new success factors determine who will truly thrive in the age of AI.

• AI UNCENSORED – HUMAN. MACHINE. QUESTIONS OF POWER.

What happens when Anitra Eggler takes to the stage with ChatGPT to discuss the most pressing questions of our time? The AI speaks plainly and holds up a mirror to humanity. This keynote is not just an AI keynote; it is an AI experience. Intelligent, provocative and surprising, it opens up new ways of thinking and perspectives on the future of work, power and what it means to be human.

• HUMAN FIRST. HOW TO MAKE THE AI ERA YOUR BEST TIME YET.

The future doesn’t belong to those with the best AI. It belongs to those who upgrade their humanity in good time. With a ‘relevance radar’, a ‘human firewall’ and a ‘human-first’ approach, Anitra Eggler shows how we can strengthen human judgement, relationships and creativity – and use AI to amplify what makes humans irreplaceable, both today and tomorrow.

• MOBILE, WE NEED TO TALK!

We look at our smartphones more often than we look into the eyes of the person we’re talking to. This takes its toll on our concentration, productivity, quality of life and sometimes even our relationships. With humour, surprising facts and strategies you can put into practice straight away, digital detox pioneer Anitra Eggler shows us how to regain control over our mobiles and our attention.

• AI LOVE YOU.

We’ve welcomed AI as a work tool. Now it’s becoming relationship technology. Anitra Eggler explains why machines seem increasingly human, why people already trust AI more than their closest friends – and why this development could transform work, leadership and the way we live together more profoundly than any previous technological innovation.

• EVERYTHING’S CLEAR. NOTHING MAKES SENSE.

For millennia, knowledge was power. Today, it’s a mass-market commodity. Whilst AI appears ever more intelligent, human intelligence is coming under increasing pressure. An entertaining and thought-provoking keynote on why thinking is a new superpower and why the future belongs not to those who use AI – but to those who still think for themselves, despite AI.

Never the same talk. Always the same standard.

Anitra Eggler’s talks evolve just as rapidly as the technologies she discusses. Every keynote is tailored to the audience, industry and event. Current developments, new studies, surprising self-experiments and the most relevant questions from the respective target group are all incorporated.

The result is not a run-of-the-mill talk, but a bespoke reality check for people living in the digital present.