Jasmin Wölke moderates panel discussions in Linz, in English and in German. The conference moderator builds a dramaturgy with real points of friction from advance conversations and keeps the panel on topic until something solid stands.
Panels between blast furnace and source code
Few cities debate themselves as intensely as Linz. The industry along the Danube thinks in plants and decades, the software scene in releases, and the media art world around the Ars Electronica Festival asks the questions in between. On Linz panels these worlds meet: the plant manager from the steel or chemical environment, the professor from Johannes Kepler University, the founder from the software scene, plus a voice from politics or an association. What gets negotiated concerns the region itself. How does digitalisation change production? Where will the people for shift work and development come from? What does AI do to work on the shop floor and in the office? The settings match the topics: the Tabakfabrik with its industrial character, the Ars Electronica Center on the riverbank, the Design Center or a hall in the Palais Kaufmännischer Verein.
One-on-one calls before the first spotlight
A good panel is made before the evening. Jasmin speaks with every guest individually: where do you stand, where does your room for compromise end, which statement would you never risk elsewhere? From these conversations she builds the arc, from the opening through the sharpest point of friction to an ending that does not dissolve into vagueness. On stage she keeps the balance: she stops a contribution kindly when it turns into a speech, brings quiet guests in with concrete questions and sorts audience input instead of letting it trickle away. She has chaired discussions of this density at the International Business Summit, a corporate reference spanning two days with 400 participants and 15 sessions.
One panel, two languages, one conversation
When an international guest joins the panel, perhaps from a research project at the JKU or a software team with customers worldwide, Jasmin moderates in alternation. She asks in English and condenses the answer into German for the room, without doubling the conversation. How the content of a panel is prepared is covered in the article preparing a panel discussion. The format is described by the hub panel discussion, and all engagements in the city by the Linz city page.
Enquire about your panel in Linz
Send the topic, the planned line-up, the date and the languages through the contact form. You will receive a quick assessment and, after the briefing, a written offer with a fixed fee, with travel costs to Linz listed as a separate item.