Jasmin Wölke moderates panel discussions in Düsseldorf in German and English: at congresses, industry conferences and on trade fair stages. Düsseldorf is one of her regular working cities with its own city page.
Panels between the CCD and the trade fair stage
In Düsseldorf, panel discussions happen in two very different places. At the CCD on the Rhine and in the city's conference halls, the audience has come for exactly this session: experts who expect substance and spot marketing phrases instantly. On the stages of world-leading fairs like MEDICA, boot or ProWein, the audience walks past instead. There a discussion has to give people a reason to stop within the first two minutes, and still hold up professionally, because the ones who stop are buyers, users and competitors.
Jasmin Wölke moderates both situations but prepares them differently: in the hall with a full dramaturgy, at the stand with short rounds, sharp angles and questions that make sense even in passing. Since the trade fair audience in Düsseldorf is international, she often runs panels entirely in English.
Leading neutrally, following up precisely
A panel does not become good through the first answer but through the second question. Media-trained guests deliver polished sentences, and that is exactly where Jasmin follows up: friendly, concrete, with the example that makes a claim testable. Her own corporate career helps her here, because she notices when an answer quietly changes the subject. At the SAP Tech Leadership Forum she moderated discussion rounds with C-level executives. That is a corporate reference, not a Düsseldorf event, but it shows the level of conversation she works at.
Preparation includes individual calls with every panelist, a dramaturgy with an opening question, lines of conflict and a planned ending, plus alignment with the production team on site. The audience gets its place too: she plans Q&A slots deliberately and moderates them so that contributions become questions rather than speeches. If the host organisation holds a position of its own, the moderation still stays neutral: the audience notices the difference, and credibility is the whole value of the format.
How to plan a panel is described on preparing a panel discussion, and the format overview is on the panel moderator page.