Jasmin Wölke moderates panel discussions in Zurich, in English and in standard German. The conference moderator builds every round from individual preparation calls and steers it towards an ending the audience can actually use.
What Zurich panels negotiate
On Zurich stages, the financial centre sits across from research and engineering. The topics are the ones the city itself is working through: AI in a regulated business, the future of client advisory, sustainable investment, the competition for talent between banks and tech companies. A good line-up mirrors that range. The private banker sits next to a founder from the ETH ecosystem, the insurer next to a researcher, with a voice from an association or public office completing the round. The audience is made up of specialists. It notices an evasive answer immediately, and it rewards precision far more than punchlines. A panel that fills an hour without saying anything gets a polite goodbye and no second invitation.
Preparation beats the approved wording
In regulated companies, panellists rarely step on stage without pre-approved lines. If the discussion stays inside them, the round nods along for 45 minutes. So Jasmin talks to every guest individually before the event: where do you disagree with the others, which sentence would never survive your internal sign-off, what do you know better than your communications team? From those calls she builds a dramaturgy with real friction, without exposing anyone. On stage she keeps the balance. She politely stops a contribution that turns into a lecture, brings quiet guests in with concrete questions and clusters questions from the floor instead of letting them trail off. She has led discussions at this density at the International Business Summit, a corporate reference spanning two days, 400 participants and 15 sessions.
From the Kongresshaus to a fly-in panel
A panel rarely stands alone. It closes a conference at the Kongresshaus by the lake, deepens a client event in one of the old town guild houses or opens a leadership meeting at The Circle at Zurich Airport when guests fly in from several countries. With international panellists, Jasmin hosts the round entirely in English or in a planned mix. She asks in English and condenses the answer briefly in German for the rest of the room, instead of duplicating the conversation. The article on questions for panel discussions shows what opens a round up. The format is described on the panel discussion hub, all engagements in the city on the Zurich city page.
Enquiry for your panel in Zurich
Send the topic, the planned line-up, the date and the languages via the contact form. You will receive a quick assessment and, after the briefing, a written offer with a fixed fee. Offer and invoice are issued from Germany, with travel to Zurich listed as a separate item.