Jasmin Wölke moderates conferences and congresses in Hamburg in English and German. She guides dense expert programmes with a steady hand, keeps panels and schedule together and strikes the sober tone a Hanseatic professional audience expects.
Conference venues between harbour and Alster
Hamburg convenes in places with a clear profile: the CCH Congress Center Hamburg for large congresses, the Handelskammer for classic business formats, Kampnagel for conferences with a more modern ambition, the Hotel Atlantic for meetings with a festive frame. The choice of venue already says a lot about the event, and the moderation should match it: in the Handelskammer etiquette carries the day, at Kampnagel the format may experiment. Jasmin reads the venue as part of the briefing and adjusts tone and pace without losing her line.
The topics of a harbour city
Hamburg is Germany's largest seaport, and that shapes its conference landscape: maritime business and logistics with houses like Hapag-Lloyd and HHLA, aviation with Airbus in Finkenwerder and Lufthansa Technik, wind energy, plus retail and consumer goods with Otto Group, Tchibo and Beiersdorf, and the city's big publishing houses. Programmes here are dense in content and understated in tone. The audience works internationally, listens closely and has little patience for empty phrases. Good conference moderation orders the content instead of outshining it: precise introductions, questions with substance, summaries that stick.
Eight panels in two days: her reference
At the SAP Tech Leadership Forum Jasmin moderated two days with eight panels in front of more than 300 executives, entirely in English. That is a corporate reference, not a Hamburg congress, but it is exactly the work an expert conference demands: many voices on stage, tight slots, an audience of specialists. Behind it stand more than ten years at Bosch in international business, where she also learned conferences from the organiser's side.
Preparation and travel
Preparation includes a briefing on agenda and goals, coordination with speakers and show callers, and a running order with buffers in the right places. From Stuttgart, Jasmin flies to Hamburg in about an hour and fifteen minutes; for an early start she arrives the day before, with travel costs listed separately in the offer. More about the city is on the Hamburg city page, the format is explained on conference moderation, and for English-language programmes see bilingual moderation.