Jasmin Wölke moderates conferences, association assemblies and symposia in Bern, in German and in English. The conference moderator travels from Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart, by train via Basel in a good four hours.
The city of associations and committees
Bern is Switzerland's federal city, and that shapes its conference landscape. Many associations gather their committees close to parliament and the federal administration, joined by conferences of the public sector and policy-related industry formats. These events follow their own rules. There is an agenda of formal items, there are standing orders, and there are delegates who rightly expect every contribution to get its place. Jasmin leads such programmes with neutrality and reliability. She keeps the schedule, summarises discussions instead of merely closing them, and leaves the formal items to the chair, whom she supports with clean handovers. Her decade at Bosch, SAP and Volkswagen taught her how meetings work in which dependability counts for more than pace. An audience experienced in committee work notices the difference within the first hour.
Medicine and science as the second pillar
The Inselspital, Bern's university hospital, and the University of Bern bring medical congresses, symposia and research conferences into the city. The room then holds clinicians, researchers and administrators side by side, and the programme moves between study data, questions of care and panel discussions. Jasmin moderates as a programme lead, not as an outsider steering around terminology. She reads abstracts and contributions before the conference, clarifies the open questions of the field with the organisers, and opens each session with the question that actually matters. English sessions are normal in research formats, and the language plan for each programme item is fixed before the day.
Kursaal, BERNEXPO or a conference hotel
Larger conferences take place at the Kursaal Bern or on the BERNEXPO grounds, more compact formats in conference hotels and halls of the city centre. In the briefing, Jasmin first clarifies what should be decided or understood by the end of the day, then builds the blocks, breaks and discussion slots on that. If a slot overruns, she recovers the time through interim summaries and breaks rather than cutting contributions. She brings experience with dense programmes from the International Business Summit, a corporate reference spanning two days, more than 400 participants and 15 sessions. For morning starts she arrives the day before, with the technical check firmly planned for the evening. What matters most in association formats is covered by the hub on association conference moderation. The format itself is described on the conference moderation hub, and all engagements in the city are gathered on the Bern city page.
Enquiry for your conference in Bern
Share the topic, date, venue and audience via the contact form. You will receive a quick assessment and, after the briefing, a written offer with a fixed fee, with travel costs to Bern listed separately.