Panels often lose the room in the first ten minutes, or run out of time before the audience gets to ask anything. This twelve-slide Google Slides deck gives moderators a fixed order: a welcome with housekeeping, the panellists with a timed table, four question themes on a two-by-two matrix, a Q&A slide with prompts and a close with contacts. Each slide carries one idea, so the moderator can keep the pace without reading from the screen.

The sample is a fictional Flintmere Brands panel on loyalty data without cookies, held on 12 March 2027, with 30 minutes of talk and 15 minutes of questions. It shows the talk times, the four themes and the Q&A prompts in finished form. Replace the title, speaker cards and themes with your own panel, then rewrite each question so that it has an answer the room can act on.