Jasmin Wölke moderates conferences in Leipzig, from multi track programmes at the Congress Center Leipzig to annual meetings at the KONGRESSHALLE am Zoo. She hosts in English, in German or switching between both.
Venues between the exhibition grounds and the city centre
Leipzig gives a conference two very different homes. The Congress Center Leipzig sits right at the exhibition grounds and carries large programmes with parallel sessions. A moderator there does more than announce speakers: she explains rooms, timings and how the tracks connect, so the main stage becomes the compass of the day. The KONGRESSHALLE am Zoo and the conference hotels in the city centre are more compact. The audience stays together, which means every slow minute in the programme shows immediately.
The audience itself has a distinct profile. Leipzig has been growing for years, mixing industry, logistics, energy and the creative sector. Porsche and BMW manufacture here, DHL runs one of its major hubs at Leipzig/Halle airport, and the energy exchange EEX is based in the city. A specialist conference therefore often brings people from very different companies into one room. The moderation has to connect their perspectives without flattening the content.
A thread, not a sequence of announcements
Jasmin opens the day with the subject, not with formalities. From there she holds the thread: introductions that place each talk within the programme, transitions that link one argument to the next, Q&A rounds that stay on topic. When a speaker runs over, she wins the time back without embarrassing anyone on stage. The Digital Transformation Conference, a corporate reference with more than 600 participants, shows how she handles a dense programme.
Behind this stand more than 500 moderated events and over ten years of corporate leadership at Bosch, SAP and the Volkswagen Group. She knows technical vocabulary, conflicting targets and committee logic from her own career. If part of your conference runs in German, she switches on the fly, so international guests do not just listen but join the discussion.
Planning and travel
It starts with your enquiry: date, venue, topic. In the briefing Jasmin clarifies the goal of the day, the logic of the programme, the speakers and the languages. The result is a run sheet with clean handovers to stage management and the technical crew. On the day she arrives early and walks the plan through with everyone involved. From Ludwigsburg she travels by ICE via Erfurt, a good four hours, arriving the evening before if the conference starts in the morning.
The format hub conference moderation gives the full picture, all Leipzig pages are collected on the city page. How a solid run sheet is built is covered in the event run sheet guide.