Experience AI ethics interactively.

Keynotes & workshops that resonate.
For decision-makers and change leaders.

We activate your participants with keynotes and workshops that engage them emotionally and make the challenges of the AI age tangible: deep expertise and a live app give responsibility, governance, or cybersecurity a distinctive, musically audible soundtrack. Your participants leave the room not with vague Post-its, but with a shared vision—and the will to put it into practice.

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The Methodology

What sets every
session apart.

Our keynotes and workshops are unforgettable. We combine subject-matter expertise with participant involvement in a way that is unique in this form. Well-founded insights and provocative theses open the space for real debate. Participant feedback flows in immediately via the app and is analyzed, clustered, and made visible in real time by live AI. The connection to music creates an emotional anchor that triggers perspective shifts and enables new ways of thinking.

Lead like a conductor. Impact arises in the ensemble.

Our speakers bring many years of expertise in leadership and strategy, responsibility in safety-critical environments, and in research and teaching. As active musicians, they know how to create dynamics and tension in the room—and they turn listeners into active contributors.

Interaction. Direct and digital.

Every session is complemented by a tailored app with integrated live AI—and turns passive listening into real participation. Feedback and positions become visible in real time and directly shape the course of the keynote and workshop.

Create resonance. Enable perspective shifts.

The deliberate interplay of experienced speakers, AI, and music creates a state of cognitive openness—the basic prerequisite for genuine perspective shifts. Analogies to disruption in the music world meet participants emotionally and provide impulses far beyond the session. The result: new thinking spaces, not just new slides.

For whom

For companies. For event organisers. Formats that deliver impact.

For event organisers

Our keynotes as the highlight of your programme.

Our keynotes are the perfect bridge from an intensive technical stretch of your conference into the evening programme. We give participants fresh energy by placing challenges from everyday business in the wider context of ethics and responsibility. With accessible examples and analogies from the world of music, we make the impact of AI tangible and directly experienceable through the app. A session that lasts—and gives your event a distinctive character.
For change leaders

Workshops that create a sense of momentum.

Do you want to drive change and prepare your organisation for the AI age? We design tailored workshops in which you identify important AI levers in your business processes and derive concrete next steps. Our speakers' expertise and the tangible use of AI on site engage your team and lead to actionable results. After that, it is straight into implementation—and we can support you on request.

How your participants experience it

Interactive. Relevant. Lasting.

Vaguely worded Post-its? The same slides over and again? Talks and workshops where participants mostly clear their inboxes? That is not what we stand for!

We rely on a fresh, interactive approach where everyone contributes directly. That creates a perspective shift that sticks. New impulses in a genuine culture of dialogue.

Keynotes

key & note.
More than a talk.

We specialise in responsible leadership and governance in organisations with high demands on quality, safety, and cybersecurity. Using AI and its effects on decision-making processes and culture—while taking business interests and employees into account—must be shaped consciously and ethically. Our keynotes combine these topics with a live experience that makes AI transformation audible and tangible—with analogies from the world of music and through an app that brings participants directly into the keynote.

Base

Keynote

20–30 min keynote + Q&A

A keynote that picks up the themes of your event and places them in the context of responsibility, governance, and AI.

1 speaker (executive leadership, responsibility, governance)
Live app with feedback and analysis

Signature

Signature Keynote

30–50 min keynote + Q&A

The flagship format: the perfect transition from the technical part of the conference to the evening programme. Conference themes become tangible through references to music and encourage perspective shifts.

2 speakers (business processes + music)
Live app with feedback and analysis
Making responsibility audible

Signature Plus

Signature Keynote + Event Workshop

30–50 min keynote + 90 min workshop

An additional workshop gives selected participants an intimate, intensive setting for exchange. The signature keynote carries the whole event into the evening programme.

2 speakers (business processes + music)
Live app in keynote and workshop
Workshop for 20 participants on themes agreed with you

Workshops

Resonant strategy development:
Workshops that deliver impact.

Our workshops pick up where keynotes end. Governance, quality, and security must be rethought in the age of AI. Whether you want to embed AI in strategic decision-making or to unlock efficiency gains—responsible use of the technology is essential to build acceptance, to scale in a human-centred way, and to keep risks in view.

Our multidimensional perspective and the app-supported, interactive approach help you achieve actionable results and unfold lasting impact in your organisation.

Every business challenge is unique. We will gladly prepare a bespoke proposal for strategy and transformation workshops and, if you wish, also support operationalisation.

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Workshop outcomes

Clear decision foundations Structured frameworks your team can put into practice immediately.

Common language An understanding of AI opportunities and risks at leadership level.

Concrete next steps Prioritised measures you can kick off right after the workshop.

About us

key & note — who we are

key & note is an offering for companies and event organisers who want to develop and discuss responsible leadership, governance, and quality strategies together. We combine rigorous content with formats you can experience—so change becomes possible and can be supported sustainably.

The keynotes and workshops are developed by our experts in AI strategy, governance, product safety, and musicology. Together we bring decades of experience in corporate culture, leadership, research and academia, and extensive musical practice.

We donate part of our fees to &ai - Foundation Ethical Artificial Intelligence, which promotes the responsible use of AI in art and music.

Dr.-Ing. Joachim Fox - key & note Unter den Pelzen 3
56220 Bassenheim, Germany
info@key-and-note.com

Keynotes & workshops that resonate. For decision-makers and change leaders.

What sets every session apart.