Video and Interview from “Head in the Cloud 2026”

I genuinely enjoyed being part of Head in the Cloud by mittwald this year. Now they released the video of my talk (it’s in German, sorry), which was titled “Weniger Slides. Mehr Austausch.” (something like “Fewer slides. More interaction.”).

Next to this, I gave a couple of interviews. One of them dealt with the how people these days see events and what is important for them. I proposed that it could work to run an event with even fewer talks than at beyond tellerrand, but more tome to chat and have conversations.

Video by mittwald. As said: I had a lovely time in Espelkamp and heard many other people say the same. The vibe, the people, everything fit very well … and the weather did also ;)

I will be back.

In addition here are the transcriptions of the interview in German and translated to English.

German transcription

Marc Thiele: Und ich glaube, da sehnen sich viele inzwischen wieder so ein bisschen nach Entschleunigung und nach echten Interessen und sich zu unterhalten und auszutauschen. Und ich merke tatsächlich auch, dass jüngere Leute, die auf meine Veranstaltung kommen, mir sagen: „Boah, zwölf Talks an zwei Tagen, das ist ganz schön viel.“ Wo ich denke: Warst du schon mal auf einer Veranstaltung mit drei Bühnen, wo dann so die Talks …?

Also ich glaube fast, dass es inzwischen sogar möglich wäre, eine Veranstaltung, eine ganztägige Veranstaltung zu machen, wo nur zwei Vorträge stattfinden und der Rest ist Austausch und Netzwerken. Das könnte vielleicht wieder Zukunft haben, tatsächlich.

English translation

Marc Thiele: And I think a lot of people are now longing a bit for things to slow down again, for real interests, and for talking and exchanging ideas with each other. And I actually notice that younger people who come to my event tell me: “Wow, twelve talks in two days, that’s quite a lot.” And I think: have you ever been to an event with three stages, where the talks …?

I almost think it would now even be possible to run an event, a full-day event, with only two talks, and the rest is conversation and networking. That might actually have a future again.