Patrick Kramer
Digital transformation programmes routinely stop at the edge of the human body. Leadership teams know identity, authentication, health data, and workforce capability are converging into something more intimate than a mobile device, but they have no shared language for what that means for products, security policy, or talent. The question is not whether human augmentation arrives in serious organisations, but how a board prepares for it without becoming either dismissive or naive.
Patrick Kramer is a futurist and biohacker who helps organisations make sense of human augmentation, subdermal technology, and the next phase of digital transformation as it moves from devices into the body itself.
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Why organisations work with Patrick Kramer
- Few European voices speak from inside the technology they describe. Kramer carries multiple working implants and has implanted chips publicly on stage, which gives boards a concrete reference point for a debate that usually stays theoretical.
- Founder and CEO of Digiwell, one of Europe’s most visible commercial biohacking platforms, and founding member of VivoKey Technologies alongside Amal Graafstra. That puts him at the operating end of subdermal identity, not on the commentary side.
- Twenty years in IT and consulting, including IBM, gives him fluency in enterprise digital transformation language. The cyborg material lands in vocabulary boards already use.
- Sustained press presence in WIRED, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and PCWorld on under-the-skin technology, which signals he can carry a serious conversation with both technical and general audiences.
Biography highlights
- Founder and CEO, Digiwell – Upgrading Humans, founded 2014, Hamburg.
- Founding member, VivoKey Technologies, a subdermal identity and authentication platform.
- Twenty-plus years in international IT and consulting, including IBM.
- TEDxBucharest speaker, “Super-humans: interconnected cyborgs.”
- Featured in WIRED, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Computerworld, PCWorld, and Red Bull Media.
- Professional member of the German Speakers Association and the Global Speakers Federation.
Biography
Most enterprise debates about human augmentation never leave the slide deck. Patrick Kramer carries the technology under his skin and runs a company that fits it to other people. Through Digiwell, the Hamburg-based platform he founded in 2014, he has built one of Europe’s most visible commercial operations in subdermal NFC and RFID implants used for access, payment, identity, and medical data.
The work sits at the edge of mainstream digital transformation, but it grew out of it. Twenty years in international IT and consulting, including a long period at IBM, gave him the enterprise vocabulary that most biohacking voices lack. As a founding member of VivoKey Technologies, the cryptographic identity platform launched with Amal Graafstra, he is also embedded in the engineering side of the field rather than only its public-facing narrative.
His TEDxBucharest talk, “Super-humans: interconnected cyborgs,” set out the argument that has since been picked up by WIRED, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and PCWorld. Technology that started on the desk, then on the wrist, is now moving under the skin, and the implications for security, HR, healthcare, and product design are practical rather than speculative.
For senior audiences, the value is in the translation. Kramer takes a category that boards tend to dismiss as fringe and connects it back to questions they already own: identity, authentication, employee health data, and the long arc of digital transformation as it stops being external to the human body.
Key speaking topics
- Human augmentation and biohacking
- Subdermal identity and authentication
- Digital transformation and the Internet of Things
- Future of human-machine integration
- Longevity and performance enhancement
- Smart cities and connected environments
- Ethics of under-the-skin technology
Ideal for
- Boards and executive teams setting digital identity, security, and authentication strategy
- CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs running enterprise digital transformation programmes
- HR and benefits leaders evaluating health, wellbeing, and workforce technology
- Innovation, R&D, and product teams in healthcare, financial services, and consumer technology
Audience outcomes
- A working mental model for where biohacking and human augmentation fit inside an enterprise digital transformation roadmap
- A concrete view of subdermal identity and what it changes for authentication, payments, and access control
- Sharper vocabulary for the ethical, legal, and HR questions that arise when technology moves from the device to the body
- Specific examples from Digiwell and VivoKey of what is already operational, separated from what is still speculative
Talks
A walk through the technologies already moving from on-the-skin to under-the-skin, framed for a senior business audience.
Key takeaways:
- How subcutaneous NFC and RFID implants are being used today for credentials, payments, and health data
- The enterprise security, identity, and HR implications of subdermal technology
- A view of where Digiwell, VivoKey, and the wider biohacking field are heading next
The convergence of human and machine, and what it means for the workplace and the wider digital economy.
Key takeaways:
- How human-machine integration reshapes job design, productivity, and skills
- Where AI, IoT, and biotechnology meet inside the next phase of digital transformation
- Practical guidance for leaders navigating the ethical questions early
iohacking, longevity science, and what serious organisations should make of the longevity economy.
Key takeaways:
- The science and commercial activity behind life-extension technologies
- How performance enhancement and longevity tools are entering mainstream wellbeing conversations
- The strategic implications for healthcare, insurance, and benefits providers