Jasmin Wölke moderates panel discussions in Bremen, from the expert panel at a conference in the Congress Centrum to the discussion round at your own event. She hosts in English and German and turns experts sitting next to each other into a conversation the room wants to follow.
Where Bremen debates
The stages for panels stand on the Bürgerweide: the Congress Centrum Bremen hosts the conferences and association formats that put their discussion rounds there, the Glocke by the market square offers a festive setting, and many companies bring the panel straight to their own site. The debates follow what carries the city: aerospace and aviation, ports and logistics, energy, science from the university and the institutes.
The audience is North German sober and deep in the subject matter. Anyone trading platitudes on a Bremen stage loses the room within minutes. What carries is friction: different interests, openly named trade-offs, numbers instead of adjectives. The moderator's job is to create that friction without letting the round fall apart.
Finding the dissent before the room misses it
For Jasmin, a panel starts long before the doors open. She speaks with every guest in advance, looking not for the position already printed in the programme but for the point where someone would contradict the others. From that she builds the dramaturgy: an opening that jumps straight into the topic, sections that visibly move forward, an ending that pins something down. She aligns the guiding questions with the organiser so the stage serves the goal of the event.
In aerospace, guests and audiences are often international; the round then runs in English or switches between languages. Stage conversations with executives and experts in English are part of Jasmin's core repertoire, among others at the SAP Tech Leadership Forum, a company reference.
Planning your panel
Congress season in Bremen falls in spring and autumn, and in October the Freimarkt additionally ties up space and hotels around the Bürgerweide. The panel should therefore be fixed together with the date. Briefing calls run via video; for morning slots Jasmin arrives the day before. Send topic, date and planned guests through the contact form.
Good questions for the stage are collected in panel discussion question examples, the format is explained on the panel discussion moderator page, and the city page bundles all Bremen pages.