German Steps - Attending a conference - Grammar note

When you say from, you can use two words - aus or von.

Aus is used with countries and place names.

In most other cases, you use von.
Von can change depending on whether the word that follows it is a masculine, feminine or neuter noun.

With der or das words, von changes to vom, which is short for von + dem:

With die words, von and die change to von der.