Tech SEO Connect
The Conference Made for Technical SEOs by Technical SEOs
Dates
December 4-5, 2025
Location
Durham, NC
about the event
The conference made for technical SEOs, by technical SEOs. December 4-5, 2025 at The Fruit in Durham, North Carolina.
Tech SEO Connect is a two-day event entirely dedicated to helping you learn more about technical SEO and connect with like-minded peers from across the world.
Dedicated to technical SEO
The only conference in the world that is open to everyone and completely dedicated to technical SEO. No talks about “SEO 101” or “how to build links with digital PR”. We are gathering the smartest technical SEOs in the world to talk about technical SEO and technical SEO alone.
Building community
Learn and grow alongside a community of your technical SEO peers from across the world. Tech SEO Connect will gather hundreds of technical SEOs from around the world in the same physical space where we will all meet face to face, learn from each other, and, most importantly, grow together as a community.
Talks from experts
You’ll be able to listen to a variety of guest speakers covering all sorts of technical SEO topics, from crawling and rendering, to working with and understanding large amounts of data, to using bleeding edge machine learning techniques to accelerate SEO work, and everything inbetween.
Speakers
Giacomo Zecchini
Ross Hudgens
Founder, CEO at Siege Media
Michael King
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at iPullRank
Martha van Berkel
CEO & CoFounder at Schema App
Dana DiTomaso
President at Kick Point
Krishna Madhavan
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft AI, Bing Web Data Platform at Microsoft
Brie Anderson
Owner of BEAST Analytics
Max Prin
Global Technical SEO Director at Condé Nast
Jori Ford
Chief Marketing & Product Officer at FoodBoss
Cindy Krum
Serge Bezborodov
CTO at JetOctopus
Baruch Toledano
VP, GM Digital Marketing Solutions at Similarweb
Bryan Casey
Vice President, Digital at IBM
Tyler Gargula
Director, Technical SEO at LOCOMOTIVE
Samantha Torres
Chief Digital Officer, Gray Dot Co
Josh Blyskal
Research, Profound
Jess Joyce
Rachel Anderson
SEO, Weedmaps
Jamie Indigo
Alex Halliday
CEO, AirOps
SCHEDULE
Dec 3
06:00pm – 08:00pm
Welcome Party
Venue – Durham Hotel Rooftop
Drinks and Snacks Provided
Dec 4
Conference Day One
Venue – The Fruit
8:00-8:50
Registration, Coffee, & Networking
8:50-9:00
Conference Intro
9:00-9:30
Beyond Blue Links: Freshness, Control, and Visibility
Krishna Madhavan
9:30-10:00
Beyond Googlebot: Evidence-Based Retrieval Experiments with AI Crawlers
Jori Ford
10:00-10:30
Morning Networking Break
10:30-11:00
Trashchat’s Guide to Black Boxes: Technical SEO Tactics for LLMs
Jamie Indigo
11:00-11:30
Should We Do This Yet? Clear Advice On 5 High-Impact Technical SEO Decisions
Alex Halliday
11:30-1:00
Lunch
1:00-1:30
From Schema Markup to Knowledge Graphs: Powering AI with Connected Data
Martha van Berkel
1:30-2:00
AI Internal Linking for E-Commerce Websites
Serge Bezborodov
2:00-2:30
Afternoon Networking Break
2:30-3:00
Decision Intelligence for Enterprise SEO
Tyler Gargula
3:00-3:30
From Guesswork to Growth: Building an SEO Strategy That Compounds
Brie Anderson
3:30-4:00
Afternoon Networking Break
4:00-4:30
Behind the Scenes of Building Scalable Data Products for SEOs
Baruch Toledano
4:30-5:00
Video SEO – The Shortcut to AIO Visibility
Cindy Krum
05:00 – 07:00
Happy Hour
Venue – Club Era
Music by DJ Lily Ray
Drinks and Snacks Provided
Dec 5
Conference Day Two
Venue – The Fruit
8:00-8:50
Registration, Coffee, & Networking
8:50-9:00
Announcements / Intro
9:00-9:30
Everything You MFs Should Know About Query Fan Out
Michael King
9:30-10:00
We Analyzed 250,000,000 AI Search Responses: Here’s What We Found
Josh Blyskal
10:00-10:30
Morning Networking Break
10:30-11:00
From Deck to Dev: Getting SEO Recommendations Shipped at Enterprise Scale
Ross Hudgens
11:00-11:30
Growth Systems: How IBM Turned One Organic Success Into Ten
Bryan Casey
11:30-1:00
Lunch
1:00-1:30
The Secret to Enterprise Crawl Optimization: SRE
Rachel Anderson
1:30-2:00
Rendering, Style, and Layout When Things Go Wrong
Giacomo Zecchini
2:00-2:30
Afternoon Networking Break
2:30-3:00
Using GA4 to Surface Technical SEO Issues In Real-Time
Dana DiTomaso
3:00-3:30
When Traffic Gets Weird: ML for Anomalies & Forecasts
Sam Torres
3:30-4:00
Afternoon Networking Break
4:00-4:30
The Pitfalls of Following Frameworks
Jess Joyce
4:30-5:00
Stacking Signals: How International SEO Comes Together (And Falls Apart)
Max Prin
05:00 – 06:00
Happy Hour
Venue – The Fruit
Music by Butler Knowles and Friends
Drinks and Snacks Provided
Sponsors
Venue
The Fruit
305 S Dillard St, Durham, NC 27701
TRAVEL
Hotels
We can recommend three nearby hotels to stay at (all are a short 10-15 minute walk from our venue, The Fruit):
Airport
RDU airport is around 15 minutes away from Durham by car, RDU offers daily nonstop flights to most major US cities as well as international destinations. Durham also has an Amtrak station offering daily trains to various east coast destinations.
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