Jasmin Wölke moderates events in Dresden in English, in German or switching between both. Dresden is one of her regular locations, with its own city page.
Why the language question comes up so often in Dresden
Dresden's semiconductor plants and its growing software scene recruit specialists from all over the world. In many teams English has long been the working language, in the lab as in the standup. On stage, that becomes a real decision. A town hall, a site anniversary or a technical conference reaches people who have worked in Saxony for twenty years, and people who arrived six months ago. Whoever improvises the language question on event day loses one of those groups.
Jasmin settles it in the briefing. How many in the room understand German, how many only English, what applies to the stage, the slides, the Q&A? The result is a language plan: sometimes a fully English programme, often a guided alternation in which she condenses key points into the other language instead of interpreting word for word. The programme keeps its pace, and nobody sits through twenty minutes of noise.
English from a corporate career, not a language course
Jasmin's English comes from more than ten years of international business at Bosch, most recently as a Director leading a team of 100 people across Europe and the Middle East. She negotiated, presented and led in English long before she moderated stages. At the Bosch Global Sales Summit, a company reference, she guided a programme with more than 500 participants from 40 countries. For a room full of international engineers this means: she catches nuances, reacts spontaneously and stays composed in the Q&A, even when accents and technical vocabulary collide.
The formats range from conferences at the International Congress Center to company events at the plant and evening programmes in the old town. For festive occasions the same rule holds: the choice of language should connect people, not exclude them.
How bilingual programmes work in general is explained on the bilingual moderation page. For internal formats see corporate event moderation, for stage formats conference moderation.