Vince Ebert

Vince Ebert is a trained physicist and cabaret artist. For more than 25 years, he has delighted a wide audience with his stage programs and hosted the ARD show “Wissen vor Acht” for many years. His books have reached a total print run of over one million copies, and as a speaker he is one of the most sought-after in the country.

After studying physics, Vince Ebert (*1968) initially worked in management consultancy and in market and trend research. At the same time, he started his career as a cabaret artist in 1998 with the aim of communicating scientific and social issues in a humorous way. With programs such as “Denken lohnt sich” (2007), “Freiheit ist alles” (2010), “Zukunft is the Future” (2016) and “Make Science Great Again!” (2020), he established himself as a science cabaret artist who entertains both laypeople and specialist audiences with wit and charm. He is currently touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland with his current program “Vince of Change”.

Vince Ebert has also been performing in English since 2017. With his show “Sexy Science. Serious Humor – Made in Germany”, he delighted comedy fans in the UK, including at the renowned Fringe Festival in Edinburgh in 2018 and at the English Theatre Frankfurt. From 2019 to 2020, he also toured the USA for a year, performing at renowned venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington and the SoHo Playhouse in New York.

For years, Vince Ebert got to the bottom of the big and small phenomena of everyday life for ARD in “Wissen vor Acht – Werkstatt” – right before the Tagesschau. His books are regular bestsellers, including “Think for yourself! Otherwise others will do it for you” and ‘Unberechenbar’. His guidebook “Lichtblick statt Blackout”, published in 2022, also attracted a great deal of attention.

Vince Ebert lecture topics

• A ray of hope instead of a blackout – The lecture on the SPIEGEL bestseller

Global warming, the energy crisis, the threat of blackouts and inflation – the bad news never stops. The threat of apocalypse is a perennial topic. We want to save ourselves – and if possible the whole world – with more sustainability, more energy transition and less growth. But is it really five to twelve? Or just twelve to five?

And how is Germany dealing with its future? Are we doing the wrong thing for the right reasons? Do we even need a completely new approach?

In his new lecture, physicist, presenter and bestselling author Vince Ebert shows that the most important resource in this country is in our heads. Instead of fear of the future, appeals to do without and doomsday rhetoric, we need more courage, more openness to technology and more enthusiasm for progress.

Because with ingenuity and creativity, we have already shaped the future in the past. The Stone Age didn’t end because there were suddenly no more stones.

Vince Ebert’s humorous and passionate plea for more rationality and pragmatism is long overdue. LICHTBLICK instead of BLACKOUT!

• Priorities – what is really important

We are still feeling the effects of the pandemic. Climate change, supply chain problems and the war in Ukraine are causing us massive uncertainty. Everyone is talking about saving energy. Did you know, for example, that a ceiling fan uses much less electricity if you unscrew the blades before operating it?

In times like these, we have to set new priorities. What is really important? What can go?

More than ever, companies need optimism and inventiveness. And a good dose of humor. Vince Ebert has developed a vaccine against gloom and hopelessness and explains in his well-known witty way how to remain capable of acting, productive and positive and how to set priorities in a phase of complete uncertainty.

Vince Ebert should know. The scientist, ARD presenter and cabaret artist flourished during lockdown. After all, “social distancing” was the reason why he studied physics in the first place.

How can we make future-oriented decisions? What priorities should we set? How many bad appointments does my department have? And have I counted myself?

PRIORITIES – clear food for thought in unclear times.

• Big Dadaism – With common sense through digitalization

How will our working world change in the future? Will computers soon be more intelligent than us? Will they even dominate us? In marketing, as an HR strategy or in production – the term “digitalization” is now everywhere. There is a feeling that traditional business models will all have to be changed or even scrapped.

But are big data, artificial intelligence and the smart guys from Silicon Valley really revolutionizing our everyday working lives?

In his new lecture, cabaret artist and graduate physicist Vince Ebert advises us to be more relaxed and dispels popular myths, promises of salvation and horror visions of the business world of tomorrow. Using witty and surprising examples, he shows where humans are superior to even the most intelligent computers and how, with imagination and creativity, we will continue to be successful in business in the future.

In his captivating keynote speech, he shows which factors are decisive for our future viability, why the self-driving car may never catch on, and that even stone-age business models used social networks.

Digitalization doesn’t have to scare us. On the contrary. Just ten years ago, Rudolph Moshammer was strangled with a telephone cable – today that would no longer be technically possible. Big Dadaism – A provocative, funny and encouraging lecture in times of digital hysteria. And last but not least: a humorous plea for your own head!

• Accidentally successful! – Why the world is unpredictable and how we can take advantage of it

Do you believe in chance? No? Then think about how you met your partner. Or how you got your first job. Was it really all planned?

We are secretly convinced that we understand the world, our spouse and the laws of the market economy. And there is a clear formula for success – as everyone says. Coincidences are at best insignificant disturbances. Not at all!

Since the financial crisis at the latest, it has become clear that there are many things in complex systems that cannot be calculated or even influenced per se. And chance has always played a key role: porcelain was invented because Johann Friedrich Böttger wanted to make gold. Scotch tape was originally intended to become a sticking plaster and Viagra was discovered because male test subjects refused to stop taking a heart medication during the test phase.

In his lecture, the graduate physicist Vince Ebert uses humorous examples from natural science, neuromarketing and chaos theory to explain where we encounter coincidence and why we find it so difficult to deal with. No wonder, because the irritating thing about chance is that it has no recognizable pattern. We have no sensory organ for it. And that’s why we don’t particularly like it.

And wrongly so! After all, coincidences are absolutely essential for progress and innovation. After all, the most successful system in our universe – evolution – is based on the principle of chance. Without trial and error, the big winners in the animal and plant kingdoms would never have prevailed.

Vince Ebert can be booked for company congresses, conferences and galas in German and English.

Vince Ebert shows what we can learn from nature about success strategies and how successful scientists and company founders have used chance to their advantage. He talks about which business strategies are needed to react flexibly to unpredictable events and thus remain innovative in the future.

Give chance a chance!

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