SEO Speaker

Yagmur Simsek organised a fantastic conference and I enjoyed speaking in London about ‘SEO Agents Are Here: How MCP Is Changing SEO Workflows’.

Charlie Whitworth set up an awesome festival-like SEO conference, and I delivered a talk titled ‘From Chaos to Clarity: How to Make Sense of SERP Volatility in 2026’.

Had a great couple of weeks in California where I spoke at the WhitePress SEO Vibes on Tour event in San Diego, discussing ‘SEO in the Age of Infinite Content’.

In Paris at France’s largest SEO event, I spoke about ‘Link Building in 2026: How Editorial Links Are Actually Earned’.

With AI Search ramping up in popularity, I travelled to the UAE to give a talk on ‘How to Identify Where Your Brand Needs to Be Found in the Age of AI Search’.

I hosted various panel presentations, masterminds and Q&As at the Semrush Spotlight conference in Amsterdam.

I spoke at the amazing SEO Vibes Summit in Zakopane, Poland, sharing insights on the ‘Digital Growth Playbook: How to Stay Competitive in 2025 and Beyond’. Watch it here.

I was invited to speak at the annual members forum hosted by 101 Holidays, an independent travel site with 4 million unique annual visitors. The event was attended by dozens of travel executives, and I kept them up to date with my talk on ‘AI’s Impact on Travel Search and What to Do About It’.

My first time speaking at SMX and it was a memorable one to say the least - a fantastic conference and I had an absolute blast talking about ‘Repurposing Content at Scale’.

It was an honour to share my experience of building a personal brand with students across the UK at Aspiration Digital.

Aleyda Solis hosted a fantastic SEOFOMO meetup in London where I discussed 2025 SEO trends and challenges on a panel alongside some fantastic SEOs (and Gary Illyes from Google).

With all the recent developments in search, I dived into how we got to this point and where we’re headed with the talk titled ‘SearchGPT vs Google: The Future of Search’.

I delved into the marketing trends that brands are beginning to utilise more of within the shift from Web2 to Web3 technologies. My talk was on ‘The Decentralised Future of Web3 Marketing’.

I moderated for the first time at this brightonSEO (I’m not sure if it counts as speaking but I’ll add it anyway) - moderating was almost as fun as delivering a talk!

On my first trip to Ireland, I was critical of Google with the talk ‘Helpful Content Update: Working Hard or Hardly Working?’. Watch it here.

Had a great time in Manchester talking about ‘From silos to synergy: How to unify digital marketing teams’, at Connective3’s event.

Diving into Google’s enforcement of site reputation abuse at SEO Vibes in Helsinki, Finland.

It was a pleasure to speak in Denmark’s capital city about ‘Decoding Google’s March 2024 core update’, hosted by WhitePress.

I spoke on the AI panel at International Search Summit in Barcelona, discussing current uses and future implications of AI on the Search landscape.

My second brightonSEO speaking opportunity, this time with a talk on ‘Generating complex schema markup at scale with AI’. Watch it here.

I delivered a guest lecture about ‘SEO in 2023’ for a couple dozen digital marketing students at Northumbria University’s London campus.

Here I am using memes to help people become less complacent. At this awesome & local event, I spoke about ‘How to Challenge Yourself and Avoid Complacency in Your SEO Career’.

Taking a selfie with ~500 attendees of my talk on ‘Advanced YouTube SEO Tricks’. It’s always great going to brightonSEO and my first time speaking there was incredible!