Jasmin Wölke moderates conferences in Dortmund: professional conferences, annual meetings and association formats, in German and English. The conference moderator works her way into programme and audience and keeps the thread from the first talk to the closing round.
Meeting between Westfalenhallen and Technologiepark
Dortmund keeps distances short for conference planners: the Kongresszentrum Westfalenhallen with the Goldsaal for large annual meetings, conference hotels in the city centre and near the Westfalenpark for mid-sized formats, plus lecture halls at the Technical University and rooms in the Technologiepark for specialist events. The audience rarely comes from the city alone. The Ruhr region is polycentric, participants travel in from Essen, Bochum and Duisburg, many with tight schedules. A conference here needs an opening that works immediately and an ending that stays on time. The industries of the city shape the room: insurance, software and logistics sit side by side, and the moderation has to translate between an actuary, a developer and a logistics manager without losing anyone.
How Jasmin runs a professional conference
Preparation starts with the goal: what should participants take home in the evening, what should be decided? Then Jasmin reads the submitted talks and builds her introductions from the content, not from the CVs. The running order has buffers in the right places, a shortening sequence is agreed with the organiser, and the handovers are talked through with the production team. In discussions she asks questions that grow out of what was just said, and she bundles contributions so that the quiet rows get heard as well. If languages change during the programme, she moderates in German and English without one side losing track.
Experience from two days and 15 sessions
How much structure a dense programme needs is something the International Business Summit, a corporate reference, made visible: two days, over 400 participants, 15 sessions, moderated by Jasmin Wölke. The method behind it, clear blocks, visible transitions, consistent time management, carries a one-day conference in the Goldsaal or in a conference hotel just as well. The hub page conference moderation explains what this work covers in general. The Dortmund city page lists all formats in the city, and the guide choosing a moderator for a conference helps with the selection.
Enquiries for your conference in Dortmund
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