event hosts most important question:

How to create an unforgettable EVENT experience?

A cordial welcome by your Conference Guy(de), Göran Hielscher. Conferences: There are the Hello's & the Hi's, the stages, guidelines, conference passes, welcome drinks. Yet, how often we question the given protocol with some valuable how's?

  • How to curate really enticing surprises?

  • How can we keep the spark percolating?

  • How does the audience to open truly up?

  • How to ensure they speak a connectable language?

  • How to make story seeds bloom into shared WOW!-experiences?

  • How do we do that without over-facilitating, yet under-structuring?

I may have a some suggestions – based on 20 years of facilitation, communication and creativity – to support your outcome. From the backstage to frontstage.

what truly matters

Create connection before content!

Conferences are awesome. But why do we gather as we do? What feats and tricks can we apply to make our audience click faster, transcend social barriers, and leave artificial formalities behind that do not serve the best outcome? I found answers in Experience Design and Relational Facilitation.My mission is to make human encounters rock. Especially in staged experiences. I was a festival junkie for years and turned into a conferences lover. Not all conferences are designed in favour of connection and conveying the message?Some appear like technocratic people fairs and end with exhaustion and mental overload. That's why I asked myself: Why not create something like the unforgettable bonfire experience and fuse together the best of festival, pitch, ritual, friends dinner, speed dating and a festival weekend in an appropriate scale, where we meanwhile learning from each other with more joy?

CLIENTS I HAVE WORKED WITH: LUFTHANSA | AUSTRIAN AIRLINES | SWISSCOM | AIDA CRUISES | CONSORS BANK | DEUTSCHE TELEKOM | STRATHMORE PRIVATE UNIVERSITY | NBST NAIROBI | DEVK | PIDAS AG | INFRASERV | CONEON | FARE | SECUPAY | GIZ | ABOUTYOU.PANGEA FESTIVAL | STADTREINIGUNG HAMBURG | HPI SCHOOL FOR DESIGN THINKING | ROLAND BERGER | FRIEDRICH NAUMANN FOUNDATION | NAIROBI DESIGN WEEK | NOMAD CRUISE | ABOUTYOU.PANGEA FESTIVAL | AT:TENSION FESTIVAL

Frontstage Support

I Design & facilitate enticing gathering experiences that matter and last

Being home in the corporate and self-development world, I developed a unique view to bring the best of both to your event. I fuse them into energetic and tangible experiences. Where people have fun and connect at ease. I love things being prepared and structured, just to let go at the right time to give space to community flow! My learning, training and workshop experiences range from 3 up to 300 people. So far.

  • large group facilitation like

  • world café, open space, appreciative inquiry

  • spontaneous workshops on multiple topics

  • narrative circles & masterminds

  • warmup games & check-ins

  • pitches & harvests

  • movement experiences in DJ sets

Just not all at once, please ;)Read Impressions & Testimonials

Backstage Support

analyze, strategize, create: from System mapping to Experience Design

As a designer, communication scientist and systems thinker, I love the big picture wrapped in an aesthetic whole that works. A special Service is "The Conference X-ray" which gives you "a fly on the wall" observing dynamics, customer satisfaction, venue improvement potential and an insight repport for the improvement of your next edition.

  • experience designs, experience journeys, maps

  • agendas & guidelines &

  • contributor training

  • systems mapping

  • design thinking

  • flow charts

Your audience will appreciate it.
And your speakers, too.My LinkedIn & Speaker Profile

How does my office look like?

My top workplace?
People gatherings!

When I learned one thing about people: it's always about people. That's why I was shapeshifting intensely in 20 years of working experience in organisations, events, cruises and festivals. Once connection is ensured, each content can follow.

Turning group dynamics your ally

people's feedback on my work

The best things about my work are said by those who benefited from collaborating with me and used my love for human connection, conceptual and facilitation skills, and ambition for wholesome experiences that make our encounterings even greater. Here are some:

In service for great encounters

Who is this conference guy?

Hi, my name is Göran. I am a traveller, a movement addict, a people connector and a foodie. By profession, I learned graphic design copywriting, coaching, communication, systems thinking, systems mapping, Design Thinking and relationship dynamics. Even though my first profession was as a graphic design freelancer in 2004, my first job was in design and communication workshops on a cruise ship. This went on. In my career, I facilitated hundreds of workshops, and my most frequent topics were:

  • The Human Connection (Lab)

  • Communication that works

  • Communication spaces

  • Leadership Training

  • Team building events

  • Storytelling bonfire

  • Design Thinking

  • Creativity training

  • Speaker training

  • Conflict resolution

  • Warm-up games

The Human Connection Lab is my cordial recommendation for any conference, as it supports people cracking open and bonding firmly, which supports the deepening of any event experience. It is all about the connections, isn't it?My foundation is the focus on the trinity of people, place, and process, and everything I have learned from studying life travels, and a bit of academics in communication, innovation, relationship dynamics, systems thinking.My hobby is DJing, and I love to deliver quite eclectic, super danceable and funky downtempo adventures.

A connected world needs connected people.

How will we rise together?

If something always made a difference, then it was a conversation. Or two. Relating through words turned into action. So here we go, rather directly by an email, a call or WhatsApp message (preferred) via the button below or a good old email.

The Conference Guy(de) is a service of The Inspiracy Group. All rights apply.

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Thank you!

Well done. I wish you a great day!

In service for great encounters

What is conference x-ray?

Why it matters for organizers:
Running an event leaves little time to notice the subtle dynamics that shape the guest experience. The Conference Experience Scan provides an independent, focused view that helps you understand and optimize what really happens during your event. With my background in corporate events, cruises and festivals I provide a high-resolution perspective. As a facilitator I gain quickly trust from people, thus catching authentic live voices is an easy achievement to do for me. As a neurodivergent I do have a heightened perception to detail, that entails great witness qualities.

Why it matters to organisers

  • Observe the full event journey (arrival → networking → plenaries → workshops → transitions → evening program).

  • Track key dynamics: energy in the room, flow of people, quality of dialogue, networking hotspots, bottlenecks, delight and frustration moments.

  • Document insights through field notes and simple visual mappings.

  • Deliver a concise 4-6 page Insights Report plus an optional 60-minute debrief.

Your benefits:

  • Independent perspective you can’t access while being in “execution mode.

  • Clear, actionable suggestions for optimizing future editions.

  • Deeper understanding of where guest experience truly lands — beyond post-event surveys.