Jasmin Wölke moderates panel discussions in Basel, in English and in German. The conference moderator builds every round on individual pre-talks and steers it towards an ending the audience can actually use.
Topics Basel takes personally
Panels in Basel rarely discuss the abstract. On stage sits the city itself: AI in drug discovery, data in clinical trials, the supply chain running through the Rhine ports, the competition for specialists who commute in daily from Baden and Alsace. A strong line-up mirrors that range. The head of research sits next to the regulatory affairs expert, a professor from the University of Basel, the oldest university in Switzerland, next to a logistics manager, plus a voice from an association or regional politics. The audience is expert and trinational. It asks precise questions, spots every evasive answer and judges the round by whether it actually moved a question forward.
Pre-talks against the approval loop
In regulated and listed companies, hardly a sentence reaches the stage without sign-off. Accept that, and you get 45 minutes of approved wording. Jasmin therefore speaks with every guest individually before the event: Which development does the industry underestimate, where do research and regulation pull in different directions, which point is disputed inside your own company? From the answers she builds a dramaturgy with real contrasts that exposes nobody. On stage she interrupts politely when a contribution turns into a lecture, brings in quiet guests with concrete questions and collects questions from the floor instead of postponing them to a closing slot that never comes. How she handles dense programmes shows the International Business Summit, a corporate reference across two days with more than 400 participants and 15 sessions.
From the Congress Center to an evening at the Stadtcasino
A panel in Basel rarely stands alone. It closes a conference at the Congress Center, deepens a client day at the Volkshaus or opens an evening at the Stadtcasino on Barfüsserplatz. With international guests on stage, Jasmin moderates in both languages: she asks in English and condenses the answers into German, so both halves of the room stay inside the conversation. How to build a round that works is described in preparing a panel discussion. The format is covered by the hub panel discussion, all engagements in the city by the Basel city page.
Enquiry for your panel in Basel
Send the topic, the planned line-up, the date and the languages through the contact form. You receive a quick assessment and, after the briefing, a written offer with a fixed fee. Offer and invoice come from Germany, travel costs to Basel are listed as a separate item.