Jasmin Wölke moderates panel discussions in Bochum: panels on housing, energy, security and science, in German and English. She asks what the audience would ask and turns prepared statements into a real conversation.
What Bochum argues about on stage
The city supplies panel topics where positions genuinely clash: affordable housing and neighbourhood development, the future of energy supply, cybersecurity between research and operations, the transformation of the former Opel site. On stage sit a board member, a professor from the Horst Görtz Institute, a voice from the city and one from a family business. Four perspectives, four vocabularies, one microphone. Jasmin holds a preliminary call with every guest and notes where the views truly diverge. From those points she builds her question line: not a list of topics, but a dramaturgy that starts at the shared problem and arrives at the contested decision.
Balance is craft, not luck
Every panel has a gradient: the practised speaker next to the expert who is on stage for the first time. Jasmin distributes speaking time in a way the room can feel, actively brings in the quiet guests and slows monologues with a summary and a follow-up question. She translates jargon for the hall without talking down to the experts. At the International Business Summit, a corporate reference with more than 400 participants over two days, she led 15 sessions, many of them panels with deliberately opposing line-ups. The audience Q&A gets rules announced upfront: one question per speaker, no lectures from row three. With mixed audiences she moderates bilingually and summarises answers in the other language.
Stages for panels across the city
Panels in Bochum find their place at RuhrCongress as part of larger conferences, in lecture halls of Ruhr University and the university of applied sciences, on the health campus or as an evening format at the Zeche. The format carries the heart of an expert day just as well as a stand-alone evening with a reception. How strong guiding questions are built is shown in questions for a panel discussion. The format overview lives on the hub panel moderation, and the Bochum city page collects all pages for the city.
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