Jasmin Wölke moderates panel discussions in Aachen, in German and English. She asks the questions the audience has in mind and turns five statements into one conversation.
Panels between lecture hall and boardroom
Aachen panels often have a line-up that rarely comes together elsewhere: an RWTH professor, a managing director from the Mittelstand, a founder from the digitalHUB, plus someone from administration or the university hospital. It gets interesting exactly where these worlds tick differently. Science wants to be precise, the company wants to sell, politics does not want to be pinned down. A moderator who only reads out prepared questions ends up with five monologues. Jasmin listens, follows up and connects the answers to each other. Her years at Bosch, SAP and Volkswagen help her translate technical language without flattening it.
Preparation you can hear on stage
A good panel discussion is made before the event. Jasmin holds a short preliminary call with every panellist: position, red lines, the one thesis they want to defend. From that she builds an arc with an opening, two or three points of friction and an ending that is more than a round of thanks. The questions still stay open, because a panel that knows its script sounds exactly like that. At the Digital Transformation Conference, a corporate reference with more than 600 participants and 20 international speakers, she led conversations in which critical questions had their place. She brings the same attitude to every Aachen stage, whether at the Eurogress, the Altes Kurhaus or a university lecture hall.
Audience and language are part of the panel
Thanks to the university and the border location, international guests often sit in Aachen audiences. Jasmin moderates panels in German, in English or mixed, with short summaries when a guest switches language. She plans the audience in actively: questions collected in advance, a floor microphone with clear rules or a digital tool, depending on the format. She travels from Ludwigsburg the day before, and the walkthrough with a technology check is part of the job. How she keeps a packed programme block on time is described on keeping the schedule.
Enquiry for your panel in Aachen
Send topic, line-up, date and venue through the contact form. The basics of the format are on the hub panel discussion moderator, other formats on the Aachen city page.