Interview with Interviewer Diana Brandl

Last week I was interviewed by Diana Brandl. Diana is a freelancer in Office Management and Executive Support Service and speaks at international events. "The Socialista Projects" is a blog for Office Professionals where she publishes various tips around her profession, interviews with ambassadors of her profession and more. Here's her interview with me.

Grand Elysée Hotel, Hamburg, Germany

With 30 function rooms the Grand Elysée Hotel is one of Hamburg's biggest event hotels. So it offers ample space for big events. But it is also an elegant venue for smaller events like exclusive customer dinners and receptions.

Avalon Kraftwerk, Munich, Germany

The Avalon Kraftwerk is a former electricity generating house. Stripped and converted into a venue location, the semi-industrial halls with multi-level spaces make an interesting environment.

Guide2Events #1: Finding the right trade show…

The British Government website proposes some trade shows as an unsorted pictorial list, but finding an event that is worth the investment and has the right audience needs a little more focus. In Germany, the organisation AUMA has a comprehensive search engine system, and it's in ENGLISH too!

Infinity Hotel, Unterschleißheim near Munich, Germany

There are few hotels in the Munich area that offer such extensive conference facilities as the Infinity Hotel, both in possibilities and capacity. They have 19 meeting rooms of various sizes, which in itself is impressive. But its particularly special asset is the large auditorium: the "Ballhausforum".

“To assume makes an ass of u and me.”

Wrong assumptions can lead to momentous misunderstandings, last-minute costly corrections or even failure. In events planning this is particularly critical because we have a fixed deadline, the event date, and are working to a very tight schedule. These are some of our tips to avoid assumptions.