Case: a sales kick-off for 250 people in the main hall

The plenary for 250 sits in the main hall, more than 600 square metres. Seated, the guide is about 400, so under 250 there is still air for aisles and for the way out at the break. A screen and a lectern come off that count. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row. Draw the plenary as chairs jammed to the wall and you give the break away.

A row or a parliament layout in the main hall exists on request, from the afternoon running order, not as a published fixed count. Every figure is a guide and not a blanket clearance. 250 is the comfortable picture under the 400, not a brief to fill the hall to the last chair. No named company hangs on this number.

Kick-offs and other company events are listed on the corporate events page.

Through the afternoon the plenary stays seated. In the evening the tables leave the floor and the same main hall becomes a standing reception. Standing, it holds about 600, so 250 stand easily once the tops are gone. That is not a seated dinner and not a larger table. The door closes to the guests while the tables move. They do not stand in the strike.

The block between the last line and the first bar is planned, not leftover. Light comes up, the screen goes dark or holds one quiet frame, and the sound drops below the plenary level. Press that block into the applause and the reception happens among chair legs. The walk-through fixes how long the door stays shut. 250 could stay seated. This picture does not do that in the evening.

Before the plenary a leadership hour can sit in Philosophia. The room is about 180 square metres. For this hour the banquet figure counts, about 100 places, because people talk at tables. About 200 in a row would be a lecture, not this conversation. The people from the hour are part of the 250 in the hall, not a second list laid on top.

The walk from Philosophia into the main hall is short and step-free. It is not a second foyer and not its own registration. Add the 100 to the 250 and you invent heads that never sit in two rooms at once. The hour ends before the plenary begins, so the hall has a clear first minute.

If the weather allows the evening outdoors, the terrace takes the standing reception. It is about 400 square metres and holds about 500 standing, so 250 is comfortable there, with air at the bar. A banquet on the terrace stops at about 300 and is not the evening of this picture. Terrace and main hall are not added. It is one group, either outside or inside.

If the sky closes in, the reception stays in the hall, already warm from the plenary. The bars follow one build, not two. Open air on the AEG grounds, about 5,000 people across up to 5,000 square metres, is another format and applies only outdoors. It is not hung on this kick-off. The walk-through names the hour when outdoors or indoors is locked.

The plenary sits in building 17, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin. The locality is Gesundbrunnen and the borough is Mitte. Wedding is the former borough name and works as a wayfinding cue, not as the place named on the invitation. From S Humboldthain it is about a ten-minute walk to the gate. Anyone changing at Hauptbahnhof needs about 30 minutes for train and footpath.

U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are close. We do not name minutes for them. The invitation carries the S-Bahn station, not only the street, because 250 people arrive in one afternoon wave. Parking is there for the build. At the plenary's peak the footpath stays the route, including for guests who are seeing the house for the first time.

Building 17 is on the ground floor. The entrance is step-free and the venue is fully accessible. Wheelchair routes, the width to the lectern and the aisle at the break come off the raw chair count. On the walk-through you say which path stays clear even with 250 seats filled. The last part in from Humboldthain is a footpath, not a lift we promise.

Guests check railway lifts themselves. We do not promise the state of a lift that afternoon, at Humboldthain or on the U8. Anyone who needs a lift looks at the railway information on the day of travel. That does not change the footpath on the grounds. It stays short, level and without a step at the door.

Kitchen, bar, sound and light sit with one producer at Cantinerie. The plenary microphone has to reach the back row, then drop once the bar opens. A second desk in the aisle cuts the strike. Delivery ends before the first guest.

There is no wall of trophies and no branded prize. A thank-you is a name spoken into the microphone. We fix the screen, the length of the strike, hall or terrace, and the hour in Philosophia. No company is named.