History - where we come from...

BWO was founded in January 1995 as a professional advertising agency. In March 1995 we moved to our new rooms in Mohrenstr. which is located near to Brandenburg Gate, Potsdamer Platz and the famous Gendarmenmarkt. Here we stay until today. The old building in the former East Berlin was built as the general representance of Allianz Insurance in 1924 and was used by the German Soviet Friendship organization during its GDR times. We had to do a lot of renovation!

Allthough BWO was founded in 1995 its roots go back to 1987 when Stephan Drooff established his first private business for corporate consulting and desktop publishing during his studies at the Berlin University of Technology. His friend and partner Philipp Oberhoff had long experiences in working in several advertising companies in Berlin.

The first clients of BWO were the Senate of Berlin (administration of traffic) and the Berlin Eagles, the local football team in the first division. Also some other clients like DER Deutsches Reisebüro (German Travel Service) and DeTeWe Kommunikationssysteme (communication equipment) gave us first jobs. In the field of conference organizing we started in 1995 with preparing the 18th International Conference for Software Engineering (ICSE) which took place in March 1996 in Berlin. By the way - this conference was the biggest success in this series of conferences outside the United States.

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