Jasmin Wölke hosts events in Mönchengladbach in German and English, switching according to a plan or staying in one language throughout. The conference host runs customer days, townhalls and conferences so that international guests and the German part of the room follow the same programme.
When the customer from overseas stands in the production hall
Mönchengladbach has sold to the world for decades. The city's plant engineering supplies the metals industry on every continent, and its textile machinery builders serve spinning and weaving mills worldwide. The consumer bank belongs to an international group, and the fashion brands sell far beyond the Lower Rhine. When these companies invite customers to a technology day, an open house or an in-house exhibition, guests from overseas stand next to fitters and design engineers from the site. The presentation runs in English, the coffee break in German, the questions in both. A host who serves only one language loses half the room. Jasmin plans instead which programme item runs in which language and what gets a short summary. The day stays one programme rather than two half ones.
Technical English is craft, not small talk
Guiding international industrial customers through a day takes more than fluent conference English. The subjects are machinery, processes and contracts, and the terms have to be right in both languages. Jasmin worked for more than ten years in both languages at Bosch, SAP and Volkswagen, and she takes technical vocabulary seriously: in the briefing she collects the terms your company uses and gets them right on stage. She guided the Bosch Global Sales Summit, a corporate reference with more than 500 participants from 40 countries, through a fully international programme. The language switching felt effortless there because it had been planned in advance.
The language plan is fixed before the event
In the briefing, Jasmin clarifies who stands on stage and who sits in the audience. If the guest speaker presents in English, she summarises in German. If questions come from both halves of the room, she briefly repeats each one in the other language. Slides, videos and the running order follow the same line. How this works in detail is described in how bilingual event hosting works. The format is explained on the bilingual hosting hub; all pages for the city are collected on the Mönchengladbach city page.
Enquire about your bilingual event in Mönchengladbach
Send the format, date, venue and the planned share of each language through the contact form. You will receive a quick assessment and, after the briefing, a written offer with a fixed fee. For morning programmes Jasmin travels the day before.