Beyond Borders Berlin
Beyond Borders is an in-person summit dedicated to shaping a borderless world of work. It brings together leaders and practitioners from Global Mobility, People, Immigration and Business to learn, exchange ideas, and connect with the people driving innovation in cross-border talent strategy.
Date: Tuesday September 23rd, 2025
Time: 1:30 PM - 8:00 PM CET
Where: Betahaus - Urbanstraβe 71 10967 Berlin
What can you expect?
Beyond Borders Berlin builds on the energy from last year.
- Expert panels, workshops, and real-world insights
- A chance to meet face-to-face with professionals from other organizations who are actively shaping global mobility strategies
- Panel topics spanning Global Mobility Strategic Shifts and Market Trends, Operational Excellence in Global Mobility, Geopolitics and Immigration, and Competing for Global Talent in Europe
Beyond Borders Berlin 2024
Still not sure if you want to come? Take a look at our sessions on-demand from Beyond Borders Berlin 2024.
Keynote: The future of Global Mobility
What trends will shape how companies move their talent across the world?
Localyze co-founders Hanna Asmussen and Lisa Dahlke share insights on business goals, Global Mobility priorities, and work-abroad policies for 2025.Speakers:
Hanna Asmussen, CEO at Localyze
Lisa Dahlke, CCO at Localyze
The future of working across borders: looking at 2025 and beyond
Where will business priorities take us next year? Will hybrid models and RTO kill global working, or strengthen it? How will big enterprises invest to unlock their international talent's innovation? Join us as we learn what will be fact and what will stay fiction with global working trends in 2025.Speakers:
Sally Flaxman - Director of Mobility at Remote
Kelli Johnson - Manager, Talent Mobility Programs at Stripe
Judith Dada - General Partner at La Famiglia VC
Decoding global talent: 5 key insights from BCG research
Orsolya Kovacs-Ondrejkovic, Associate Director of People Strategy at BCG, breaks down hundreds of thousands of responses to share international talent's preferences for destinations, job features, and ways of working. Where does talent want to go? What motivates them to make the move, and what stands in their way? And ultimately, what can companies and governments do to harness this desire for working beyond borders?
Speakers:
Orsolya Kovacs-Ondrejkovic - Associate Director of People Strategy at BCG
Organized chaos: the do's and don'ts of setting up international working policies
In this panel, we look at how different industry leaders tackle the complexity that business trips, workations, offsites, and relocations bring to a global enterprise. Do they reel in the chaos and compliance risks with robust policies, or do they take on a different approach?Speakers:
Matthias Schmeisser - Senior Director, Global Talent at Emnify
Dr. Julia-Sophie Ezinger - CEO & Founder of rhome
Robert Haines - People Ops Lead at Octopus Energy
Jaya Gangwani - Pricipal-Global International Employment at Zalando
Focus on Germany: skills shortages, immigration reforms, and tightening budgets
Let's talk Fachkräftemangel and the measures being put in place to solve it. Will immigration reforms help with skills shortages, or will they just bring new administrative bottlenecks? What can companies do now to bring in or even keep the talent they desperately need, while also sticking to tight budgets in a cautious economy?Speakers:
Lydia Erdmann - Senior Legal Counsel & Policy Officer Labor Law at Bitkom
Sybille Schneider - Global Mobility Immigration Specialist
Lorna Ather - Manager, Global Mobility & Travel Management at Delivery Hero
Let's get down to business: Global Mobility's role in the bigger strategic picture
Global Mobility it no longer a one-person operation burried somewhere in the org chart -- it's grown to be much bigger, more complex and impactful on the business as a whole. But does mobility expertise influence wider strategy decisions? We find out more from a panel of seasoned Global Mobility leaders who tackle large-scale projects for even larger-scale enterprises.
Donald Jurries - Global Benefits & Mobility Lead at SumUp
Lisa Eggershausen - Global Mobility and Immigration Manager at Foot Locker
Online Fireside Chats
How to attract skilled talent to Europe, according to a member of the European Parliament
How talent moves to and across Europe is in constant flux, but are things moving in the right direction? How are governments looking at immigration issues for 2024? How can companies become more proactive in attracting and retaining expat talent? We explore these questions with Damian Boeselager, MEP and Co-Founder of Volt Europa, who works every day to break down the bureaucratic barriers keeping expat talent away.
Host: Hanna Asmussen, Co-Founder and CEO of Localyze
Speaker: Damian Boeselager, MEP and Co-Founder of Volt Europa
How to convince your leadership that immigration support can retain and nurture critical talent
With more than 20 years of experience in Global Mobility and immigration, Sybille Schneider has handled her fair share of immigration processes for DACH, and even further beyond. This work is critical in attracting, retaining, and nurturing talent that’s key to business success — and as 2024 comes ever closer, it’s important to stay top-of-mind for key strategic decisions.
In this digital fireside chat, we ask Sybille about her thoughts on how to communicate the importance of immigration support to business leaders. Whether it’s to advocate for your work, get more budget, or break internal barriers slowing you down, in this webinar you’ll hear from an expert in the field on how to move into 2024 with confidence and fresh ideas.
Host: Stephanie Thomas, Talent Acquisition Lead at Localyze
Speaker: Sybille Schneider, Global Mobility & Immigration Manager at Cognizant