Jasmin Wölke moderates panel discussions in Dortmund, in German and English. She holds a preliminary call with every guest and then asks the questions on which the panel actually turns.
Panels between actuaries, code and logistics
Panels in Dortmund bring together worlds that rarely talk to each other in daily business. The board member of an insurer sits next to a logistics researcher and a founder from the technology park. Each of them brings their own technical language, and each has their own audience in the room. That is exactly what the moderation is for: translating without flattening. Jasmin asks in a way that lets the actuary get specific while the developer stays understandable. She spent her own corporate years at Bosch, SAP and Volkswagen. That is why she recognises evasive phrases immediately and follows up before the audience switches off.
From lecture hall to Goldsaal
The setting shapes the direction. An expert panel in a lecture hall at the technical university lives on precision and dense follow-up questions. In the Westfalenhallen congress centre or the Goldsaal, the conversation needs larger arcs and clear interim summaries. An evening format at Dortmunder U can carry more lightness, but no randomness. On site, Jasmin aligns microphones, seating and signals with the technical crew. She plans audience questions as a fixed programme item with a rule and a time window. That creates participation without an open microphone hijacking the evening.
Preparation you can hear in the room
Before every panel, Jasmin reads up on positions, studies and points of dispute. From the preliminary calls she builds a question line along the real fault lines of the group. Where two guests disagree for good reasons, you get the moment people talk about afterwards. At the International Business Summit, a corporate reference with more than 400 participants and 15 sessions across two days, she led discussion rounds between the content blocks. That is where she learned when a panel needs pace and when silence does the work.
Request your panel in Dortmund
Send the topic, the planned line-up and the setting through the contact form. Early contact pays off even with an open guest list, because good questions need lead time. For inspiration on the question catalogue, read questions for panel discussions. The format hub panel moderator gives the overview, and the Dortmund city page collects all formats in the city.