Jasmin Wölke moderates events in Bochum bilingually: conferences, town halls and corporate gatherings in German and English, either switching between both languages or entirely in English. German teams and international guests follow the same programme, without headsets and without doubling the runtime.
A city that does research in English
Bochum's IT security scene has worked internationally for years. The Horst Görtz Institute at Ruhr University and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy recruit worldwide, papers and talks are written in English, and at G DATA analysts with very different native languages share the same office floors. At the same time, Vonovia, Aral and GLS Bank run large German speaking workforces. Anyone planning an event in this city often has both groups in one room: the doctoral researcher who only understands English, and the administration team that wants to discuss in German. A moderation in a single language always loses one side. Bilingual moderation solves this, as a concept designed in advance rather than improvisation on stage.
Business English learned inside corporations
Jasmin did not pick up her English in a classroom. She spent more than ten years at Bosch, SAP and Volkswagen, in development and sales roles within international projects. Terms from IT security, housing and energy sit firmly in both of her languages, from incident response to asset portfolios. At the Bosch Global Sales Summit, a corporate reference with over 500 participants from 40 countries, she moderated for an audience that largely had not grown up speaking English. That is why she speaks clearly, calmly and without idioms on stage: comprehension beats accent polish, especially when researchers, technicians and administrators are listening at the same time.
A language plan instead of guesswork
Before the event it is fixed which part of the programme runs in which language: welcome, talks, interviews, Q&A. Jasmin summarises key messages compactly in the other language, so business formats usually need no interpreting booth. This works at the RuhrCongress just as well as in the Audimax of Ruhr University or at formats on the Mark 51°7 campus. How the switching works in detail is explained in How bilingual moderation works. The format hub is Bilingual moderation, and all pages about the city are collected on the Bochum city page.
Enquire about your bilingual event in Bochum
Send the occasion, date, audience structure and the language split you have in mind via the contact form. You will receive a quick assessment and, after the briefing, a written offer with a fixed fee. Bochum is around 400 kilometres from Ludwigsburg; for morning events Jasmin arrives the day before.