Jasmin Wölke moderates conferences in Augsburg: expert conferences, industry gatherings and internal meetings, in German and English. She keeps the schedule and the common thread, so the content lands and the day does not turn into a sequence of announcements.
Meeting between congress house and campus
The city's central congress venue is Kongress am Park at the Wittelsbacher Park, with a large hall and side rooms for parallel sessions. Added to this are lecture halls and conference spaces at the university and the technical university, plus conference hotels in the city centre. Augsburg conferences often have a particular audience: the Innovationspark brings research institutes of DLR and Fraunhofer together with the region's production technology. A professor and a plant manager then sit side by side in the hall, and both notice immediately whether a moderator understands their topic. The moderation has to be precise on substance, accessible in tone and strict on timing.
How Jasmin leads an expert conference
Before the conference, Jasmin works through the programme and the abstracts and discusses the core message with every speaker. On stage she opens with the question that carries the day, manages session changes without dead air and sums up after each block what should stick. She moderates Q&A rounds so that the best question wins, not the loudest voice. At the International Business Summit, a corporate reference with more than 400 participants, she led two days with 15 sessions and kept the tension up to the closing words.
Spring, autumn and full calendars
Augsburg's conference season falls in spring and autumn, when halls and hotels fill up early. If your conference sits in these windows, it is best to secure the moderator together with the venue. For international speakers Jasmin moderates bilingually and holds discussions together even when they switch between German and English. What to look for when choosing is covered in the guide selecting a moderator for your conference.
Planning your conference in Augsburg
Send the topic, date and number of participants through the contact form. The format is explained in the hub conference moderation, and further Augsburg pages are bundled on the Augsburg city page.