Jasmin Wölke moderates panel discussions in Salzburg, in English and in German. The panel moderator talks to every guest individually beforehand, builds her questions where the positions truly diverge, and keeps time and audience under control.
Panels where industries collide
A panel in Salzburg is rarely a round of like-minded people. On stage sit the board member of a retail headquarters, the owner of a family business from the surrounding area, a voice from tourism and a technology manager whose customers are spread across the world. Topics like skilled labour, succession, digitalisation in retail or the future of tourism look different from each of these perspectives. The city's location adds another layer: the audience often mixes guests from Bavaria with guests from the Austrian provinces, two markets in one room. A good moderation uses these differences. Where everyone agrees, the real question has not been asked yet.
One-on-one conversations before the first spotlight
Jasmin prepares every panel with short individual conversations: what is this person driving at, where is their limit, which question have they never been asked? From this she builds a dramaturgy with an opening, an escalation and an ending that is more than a round of thanks. On stage she distributes speaking time visibly fairly: whoever lectures is interrupted in a friendly way, whoever stays silent gets the next question. Audience questions are bundled and directed at the right person, so the Q&A sharpens the ending instead of talking it to pieces. At the International Business Summit, a corporate reference with over 400 participants and 15 sessions, she led discussion rounds within a dense programme.
Bilingual whenever the panel is
If an English-speaking guest from the brand or technology world sits between German-speaking panellists, Jasmin moderates alternately: questions in the language of the person answering, summaries for the room. The discussion stays a conversation rather than a simultaneous-translation exercise. How strong panel questions are built is shown in the article on questions for a panel discussion. The format is described in the hub panel discussion; further local engagements are collected on the page moderator Salzburg.
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