Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is the gateway to Europe when taking the train from the north. It’s also where our visits to Hamburg usually begins and ends, sometimes with a direct train to/from Denmark. Photo: Sep 2022 by Janus Boye
Hamburg (DE)
The German city of Hamburg is currently home to four local groups and some 20+ members, including CoreMedia, diconium and Hapag-Lloyd
Group leaders Brian Tomlinson, Thomas Dugaro and Thorsten Jonas are based in Hamburg alongside several conference speakers including Antonia Fedder, Christina Rahtgens, Lisa Mo Wagner and Marc Paczian
The coffee is great at Erste Liebe Bar and there are so many good hangout spots all around town. We’ve had many good times across the street at Rheinischer Hafen
Upcoming Hamburg meetings
August 26: Product management group
August 27: Digital strategy group at Vattenfall
September 3: Design leadership group
September 5: Employee Experience group
September 24: Digital communication group
November 21: Annual Hamburg get-together for members and friends
For more details on each peer group, read more on the group pages next to each meeting date above
PS: The Q4 meeting in most groups is held in Aarhus (co-located with the Boye Aarhus 24 conference)
From when we visited Philips in our intranet expert group back in February 2018. This was particularly memorable as Philips back then had moved to brand new offices without permanent desks and quiet zones. A very modern workplace for a large, complex, global and old organisation
Connect with our Hamburg community
Practitioners at Basler, dolle, Friedrich Verlag, Hapag-Lloyd, Otto and Vattenfall are regulars at our local sessions
diconium are among our local members on the agency and consulting side
On the vendor side, we are happy to have CoreMedia, Haiilo and TYPO3 as local members
Selected blog posts on Hamburg members
What might 2024 bring? - based on our 2023 Christmas meeting
Decoding Bias: Navigating the Digital Landscape Towards Inclusivity (2023)
That’s also Hamburg
In 2023, we did a MarTech briefing in Hamburg featuring Scott Brinker
Local football heroes HSV hosted us in their stadium for a memorable internal communications group meeting back in 2016. That’s when they still played in the Bundesliga and the clock was ticking as their team was the longest ever to be in the Bundesliga
According to usually reliable sources the direct train to Aarhus will resume in 2026. Keep your fingers crossed