A kick-off venue in Berlin, with the plenary in the main hall

The day starts at the door of building 17, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, ground floor. The borough is Mitte and the locality is Gesundbrunnen. Wedding is the former borough name and a wayfinding cue, not the district of this address. A kick-off brings people in from the city and sends them home the same day. There are no hotel beds here.

S Humboldthain is about a ten-minute walk. From Hauptbahnhof the journey by train and on foot is about 30 minutes. U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are nearby. We do not give walking minutes for those two. The invitation carries the station name, because many people arrive together in the morning.

Parking on the grounds carries the build, not the staff at half past eight. Several hundred people in the same minute need the footpath. A shuttle to a hotel is not part of this building and not part of this day.

Dates for this kick-off are checked on the corporate event page.

The plenary sits in the main hall, more than 600 square metres, about 400 guests seated. Standing, the same room holds about 600, and about 600 is the standing reception, not a row of chairs. People who must read slides and take notes need the seated plan. A row or parliament layout in the main hall is on request only, from the actual day plan.

The leadership circle goes to Philosophia, about 180 square metres. About 100 banquet places sit there, and about 200 in a row. That is the second room of the day, not the tenth. A list that turns this room into five workshops describes a building we do not have.

The terrace, about 400 square metres, holds about 500 standing and about 300 at a banquet. It is not a work room and is not added to the plenary. Open air on the AEG grounds goes to about 5,000 people across up to 5,000 square metres, outdoors only. Every figure is a guide, not a blanket clearance.

The day plan carries two room names: main hall and Philosophia. Arrival, plenary, a block for the tighter circle, return to the hall. The minute of the walk back from Philosophia is on the sheet. If the circle vanishes without that minute, the plenary waits on people who are still talking.

A third room does not appear on the day just because someone asks. Ten parallel groups need ten doors. This building does not have them for a kick-off. Print the day plan with room names from somewhere else and it has to be rewritten before the kitchen plans the breaks.

The evening is a fork, not a side note. Either the main hall is reset after the last block for a short stay, or the day ends and people walk to Humboldthain. Both are right. Leave both on the card as a maybe, and the kitchen cooks the wrong number.

Sunshine is not a reason to pull the plenary onto the terrace. Slides, notes and a view to the front live in the main hall. The terrace stays an outside room, about 500 standing, and does not become a third work room. A break in the air is a break, not an extra figure.

Rain does not create a tenth room in the building. The day runs in the main hall and in Philosophia, whether the sky holds or not. Open air for about 5,000 people is another format, not a fallback for a plenary that has to sit indoors.

Catering, the bar, sound and light stay with Cantinerie. Breaks and food sit on the same day plan as the plenary. The clock comes from the day you booked. A second caterer in Philosophia, while the hall is in plenary, crosses the path of the circle.

Sound in the main hall carries the plenary to the back. Philosophia stays quieter, so the circle can talk without speaking against a microphone from the hall. Radios for the hosts stay at the edge, not on the circle's tables.

If the evening stays, the reset of the hall needs a minute on the plan. Tables that served the plenary in the morning are not automatically the reception. The kitchen cooks only the figure left after that decision. Ground-level delivery keeps the build short on a single day.

A hundred places in Philosophia and about 400 in the main hall do not become five hundred seated guests. They are two rooms at two times, or two groups, not an addition. About 600 standing is not a plenary with notes. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row of chairs.

Ten side rooms, hotel beds and open air for about 5,000 people do not belong in this day. Open air applies only outdoors, across up to 5,000 square metres. Logos on the site are references, not a staff count. A logo is not a headcount.

Building 17 is on the ground floor. The entrance is step-free and the venue is fully accessible. The way into the main hall and the way into Philosophia both have to work without a step. That width comes off the raw chair count, in the plenary and in the small circle.

S Humboldthain is about a ten-minute walk. U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are close, with no invented minutes. Guests check railway lifts themselves. We do not promise a lift in the morning. In the evening the same footpath leads back to the train. Parking does not replace it when the day closes and many people leave together.

We walk the day with the day plan in hand. In the main hall we stand at the back and check whether the slide and the speaker can be read from there. About 400 seated places are the figure for that picture. About 600 standing would be a reception, not a kick-off with a notebook.

Then we walk into Philosophia and count the table against about 100 banquet places, on about 180 square metres. If the list shows a larger circle, the list is wrong, not the room. About 200 in a row is the other figure for this room, for a circle that listens and does not eat. The walk back to the hall gets a minute. Without that minute you get two days that never meet.

Inside the building we show what is not there. No third door, no ten group rooms, no bed. If the day plan carries further names, we strike them that afternoon. The terrace stays outside and is not counted as a workshop, even in sunshine. Open air for about 5,000 people on the AEG grounds is mentioned only to keep it off this day.

At the end of the walk-through the evening fork is in writing. Either the hall is reset and the kitchen receives its own, smaller figure, or the day ends and the path to Humboldthain is the close. The date, the plenary headcount and the number in Philosophia are enough for a first answer. The figures stay a guide and depend on the build and on the two routes.