Jasmin Wölke moderates conferences in Hannover in English and German: industry conferences, annual meetings and sales conferences. She keeps talks on schedule, ties the contributions into one thread and makes sure the Q&A rounds deliver more than polite silence.
The HCC sets the beat of the city
Most conferences in the city run at the Hannover Congress Centrum, with the Kuppelsaal as the large plenary hall and smaller rooms for parallel sessions. Conference hotels in the centre and venues at the Maschsee serve formats that want a different frame. For the moderation, the cut of the building matters: a plenary with 800 people needs different announcements than three parallel tracks with an audience that wanders between them. Jasmin clarifies in the briefing where walking routes, breaks and room changes sit, and builds the transitions so nobody ends up in the wrong hall.
Meet when the world is travelling in anyway
Hannover has the largest exhibition grounds in the world, and many professional events deliberately dock onto the fair weeks: an industry conference around the Hannover Messe, a sector day during Agritechnica or LIGNA in their years. That saves participants a second trip, but makes halls and hotels scarce. If you place your conference in a fair week, book early and expect an audience that commutes between exhibition hall and conference room. A tight time regime is then not a nice-to-have but the condition for keeping the room full.
An audience from industry and sales
The region is shaped by industry, insurance and logistics, with companies such as Continental, TUI, Hannover Rück and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles as the organisers' neighbours. The room accordingly listens matter-of-factly, asks concrete questions and ticks off buzzwords quickly. Jasmin prepares with short calls: she knows the core message of every talk before the day starts, asks follow-up questions instead of reading cue cards, and brings quiet rows into the conversation with targeted questions. Her benchmark for large formats is the Bosch Global Sales Summit, a company reference with more than 500 participants from 40 countries.
Languages, travel, booking
English-language sessions are normal at Hannover conferences. Jasmin moderates in English, in German or switching between both, and agrees with you in the briefing which block needs which language. From Stuttgart she takes the direct ICE, a good three and a half to four hours; for a morning start she arrives the day before. For a quote, send date, venue and a draft programme through the contact form. The format itself is covered on conference moderation, other formats in the city on Moderatorin Hannover, and the sales team's annual meeting on sales conference moderation.