Jasmin Wölke moderates conferences in Essen in German and English: expert conferences, industry gatherings and annual meetings. She keeps the schedule and the common thread, so a packed conference day remains a programme for the audience and not a sequence of unrelated talks.
A conference city between energy and medicine
Few cities have conference themes as clearly defined as Essen. Energy and chemistry shape the city through the headquarters of RWE, E.ON and Evonik, construction and retail add Hochtief and Aldi Nord, while the University of Duisburg-Essen and the university hospital carry research and medicine. The industries that meet here are used to precision. There is a room for every size: the Congress Center at Messe Essen for large expert conferences, the Grugahalle for assembly formats, the Alfried Krupp Hall at the Philharmonie for annual meetings with a festive close, and the lecture halls of university and hospital for scientific programmes.
Expert audiences notice the difference immediately
Grid planners, chemists, hospital physicians: whoever sits in an Essen conference hall can tell within the first quarter of an hour whether the moderator has understood the programme. That is why Jasmin reads into abstracts and presentation material before every conference and talks to the speakers. On stage she connects the contributions instead of merely announcing names, asks the follow-up question the audience already has in mind, and leads discussions so that even the third comment from the floor still produces a result. After corporate years in development and sales she holds her own at expert level without pretending to be the expert.
Packed agendas need a steady hand
Two conference days, more than 400 participants, 15 sessions: at the International Business Summit, a corporate reference, Jasmin held stage, schedule and show calling together. Her tools for Essen come from that practice: buffers in the right places, a cutting order agreed in advance, breaks protected as networking time, and a morning check before each conference day. Since the Ruhr region is polycentric, your audience travels in from Dortmund, Duisburg, Bochum and Düsseldorf; a punctual start and a clear ending are not a courtesy here but part of the programme. What matters additionally in multi-day formats is explained in moderating multi-day conferences. The essentials are bundled in the hub conference moderation, other formats on the Essen city page.
Enquiry for your conference in Essen
Send topic, date and number of participants through the contact form. For morning starts Jasmin plans her arrival the day before, so the technical check runs without any rush.