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A conference venue in Berlin for a day that has to hold its content
A conference is not a banquet with a projector. It needs daylight, clear sightlines, a break that does not jam the doors, and a second room when the group splits. In the main hall we plan for about 400 seated guests.
In short
A conference venue in Berlin-Mitte has to carry a full day of content. At Cantinerie daylight comes through the tall windows of the main hall. Breakouts sit in Philosophia, about 180 square metres. Plenary stays at about 400 guests seated and about 600 standing. Lunch and coffee run through the house kitchen. Humboldthain station is about a ten-minute walk from the site.
Rooms
The hall for plenary, Philosophia for the group.
Philosophia is about 180 square metres, with about 200 seats in rows and about 100 for a banquet. It carries breakouts, press or a separate meal without taking the hall apart.
Standing, the main hall holds about 600 if the conference becomes a reception in the evening. Open air for 5,000 people belongs to the AEG grounds and is not a conference figure.
Checklist
What the first walk-through checks
Plenary and breakout
The main hall holds the plenary. Philosophia, about 180 square metres, takes the smaller sessions.
No fixed row of 600
Seated capacity stays at about 400. A theatre layout of 600 seats is not sold as a fixed number.
Food from the house
Lunch and coffee come from the Cantinerie kitchen, not from a second caterer in the yard.
Before you enquire
Questions we hear first.
Short answers for a first shortlist. The final layout still depends on guest count, staging and the run of the day.
01Is there a fixed row capacity of 600?+
No. 600 is the standing reception in the main hall. Seated, we plan up to about 400. Row and parliament layouts are drawn from your build.
Your event at Cantinerie
Send the agenda and the number of participants.
We will check plenary, breakout and the meal between them.