SMX Munich 2027
A search marketing conference at the ICM in Munich with a workshop day and two conference days on SEO, GEO, PPC and AI.
About SMX Munich 2027
SMX Munich is a search marketing conference on AI Overviews, GEO and the next generation of SEO and PPC strategies. It is vendor-agnostic and editorially curated, built around the conversations that can only happen in person.
The producers of SMX are a neutral editorial team, not an agency or tool provider. SMX is described as the most established conference series entirely devoted to search marketing and how search fits into the marketing mix.
Speakers at SMX Munich 2027
This event features talks by the following speakers
Björn Darko
Global Product SEO Leader
Carolyn Shelby
Principal SEO at Yoast
VP of Strategy at NorthSide Metrics
Bridge Content: Fixing the Gaps Between What a Brand Was and What It Is Now
Dana DiTomaso
Founder at Kick Point
Founder & Lead Instructor at Analytics Playbook
Missing but Still Useful: Reporting on Data You Know Is Incomplete
Dawn Anderson
Founder & SEO Consultant at Bertey
High-Dimensional Bloat: AI Search, Vector Pruning, and the Lean Web
Frederick Vallaeys
Co-Founder & CEO at Optmyzr
Who’s in Charge? Keeping Control of PPC Automation and AI Agents
Greg Gifford
Chief Strategy Officer at SearchLab Digital
Back to Basics: Why SEO Fundamentals Are Critical to Success
Jes Scholz
Growth Marketing Consultant at Jes Scholz Consulting
What If We Lived in a World Without Brand Websites?
Johan von Hülsen
Founder & CEO at Wingmen Online Marketing
Eine gute SEO-Analyse beginnt nicht mit einem Crawl
Julia Weißbach
Head of Strategic Marketing & Communication at SISTRIX
Juliane Bettinga
Co-Founder & Technical SEO Consultant at SEOSOON
Grounding-Traffic dekodiert: Was deine Server-Logs über deine LLM-Sichtbarkeit verraten
Malte Landwehr
CPO & CMO at Peec AI
Markus Hövener
Founder and Head of SEO at Bloofusion
Myriam Jessier
AI Search Strategist at PRAGM
Image Optimization for AI Search: From Strategy to Scale
Navah Hopkins
Ads Liaison at Microsoft Advertising
The New Rules of Conversion-Based Bidding: If This, Then What?
Nils Rooijmans
Google Ads Performance Architect at Water Cooler Topics
From “Ask an AI” to an Army of Agents
Purna Virji
Principal Evangelist & Global Program Manager at LinkedIn
Let’s Get Real: What AI Search Visibility Can – and Can’t – Prove About Business Impact
Sam Tomlinson
Executive Vice President at Warschawski
Managing Partner at W Ventures
ChatGPT Ads in the US and Europe: Learnings from Big Budget Campaigns
Tom Capper
Director of Search Product Strategy at Moz
Beyond the Click: Turning AI Search Citations into Your Visibility Roadmap
Mario Fischer
Publisher at Website Boosting
Anke Probst
Head of SEO at 1337 UGC GmbH
GEO & SEO Inhouse Case Studies: Zahlen, Fails und Learnings
Timon Hartung
Founder & Managing Consultant at WOXOW
Ann-Kathrin Reitmeyer
Independent SEO Consultant
The Gap in Your Funnel: A Messy Middle Content Audit for Search & AI Visibility
Johanna Hartung
Founder at woxow.com Technologie Beratung für SEO, AI & Data
Der Podcast als Sichtbarkeits-Motor: Warum KI für SEO & GEO nur in Kombination mit echten Menschen wirklich gut funktioniert
Marcus Tandler
Brand Visibility Expert at Semrush
Founder & Host at SEOktoberfest G50 Summit
Michelle Robbins
Director, AI Strategy & Enablement at Microsoft AI
The Decisions That Will Define Marketing’s Future
Stephan Czysch
Head of SEO at mobile.de
Immersive Deep Dive: Screaming Frog
Julia Riml
Growth Director at Precis Digital ApS
AI Max and Ads in AI Overviews: What’s Coming for PPC Teams in Europe
Mike Ryan
Head of Ecommerce Insights at Smarter Ecommerce (smec)
From Feed to Agent: Product Data for Shopping, AI Mode and Agentic Checkout
Tobias Fox
Strategy Consultant & Google Expert at VERDURE Medienteam GmbH
Alexander Holl
CEO at 121WATT
How to Prompt Research: Wie du die richtigen Prompts findest und bewertest und warum dein GEO Visibility Score davon abhängt
Jens Fauldrath
Founder and CEO at get:traction GmbH
Reichweite in Serie: Formate statt Einzelartikel in Google Discover
Jolle Lahr-Eigen
SEO Consultant at Wingmen Online Marketing
Kein Release ohne SEO-Check: automatisierte E2E-Tests für GEO und SEO
Martin Röttgerding
Managing Director at Bloofusion
Connecting the Dots 2.0: Von Datensilos zu besseren Kampagnen
Robin Heintze
Founder and CEO at morefire
Data, Cases, Learnings mit morefire
Sandra Finlay
Conference Director at Rising Media
Sven Deutschländer
Founder and CEO at dskom digital.marketing.agentur
Local SEO beyond Google: Wie Unternehmen in Maps, KI & Social Search zur richtigen Antwort werden
Cindy Ebner
Head of Paid Search at Kosch Klink Performance
Was bedeutet AI Search für deine Google Ads?
Dominik Graser
Product Lead SEO at The Boutique Agency
Skill statt Prompt: Wie du mit Claude reproduzierbar markentreue Texte erstellst
Ines Kriebernig
B2B Digital Expert at Dynatrace
B2B SEA Reality Check: Welche Plattform liefert wirklich Pipeline?
Jana Lavrov
Director Data Analytics and SEO
Jonas Kleespies
Product Lead PPC at THE BOUTIQUE AGENCY
Der Tag nach dem Go-live: Was KI und Automatisierung im SEA-Dauerbetrieb wirklich brauchen
Juliana Jackson
Director, AI Strategy at Jellyfish
Creative Effectiveness on YouTube: Ten Years of Learnings, and What’s Changing Now
Michaela Linhart
Digital Analytics Consultant at ANALYTICSkiste.blog
Anomalien, Conversion-Einbrüche, KI-Traffic und mehr: GA4-Analysen mit Claude und MCP
Olaf Seydel
Head of Engagement & Growth at DIE ZEIT
Search Inhouse 2030: Wie müssen sich Teams, KPIs und Skills verändern?
Regina Biskop
SEO Expert at DKB
Search Inhouse 2030: Wie müssen sich Teams, KPIs und Skills verändern?
Uli Zimmermann
Founder & CEO at eMinded
Der Kampf um die Shortlist: So kommen B2B-Unternehmen in die Vorauswahl
Alin Radulescu
Online Marketing Consultant
Wikipedia, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: Pflichtquellen für GEO und SEO?
André Goldmann
Founder at Büro für gute Websites
Kein Release ohne SEO-Check: automatisierte E2E-Tests für GEO und SEO
Benjamin O’Daniel
SEO & GEO Consultant at Jaeckert & O’Daniel Onlinemarketing
GEO Monitoring live: So sehen belastbare Setups in der Praxis aus
Christian Ebernickel
Digital Analytics Consultant at Christian Ebernickel Digital Analytics Consulting
Besser gemessen oder wirklich besser? Google Ads auf wirtschaftlichen Erfolg ausrichten
Christian Rieber
Head of Search & Analytics at ADAC
Fabian Jaeckert
GEO & SEO Consultant at Jaeckert & O’Daniel Onlinemarketing
GEO Monitoring live: So sehen belastbare Setups in der Praxis aus
Gero Wenderholm
Online Marketing Expert
Helen Schrader
Director Digital Marketing at MEGABAD
Marco Hjorth Dziendziol
Head of Performance at MEGABAD
SEA Inhouse: Neue KPIs, neue Rollen, neue Spielregeln mit Agenturen
Oliver Kuttruff
Search Experience Manager at Workpath
The Gap in Your Funnel: A Messy Middle Content Audit for Search & AI Visibility
Sandra Radtke
SEO Consultant at Wingmen Online Marketing
AI Agent-Readiness durch Accessibility – Websites fit machen für Menschen und Maschinen
Sascha Blank
Inhouse SEO at Atolls
GEO & SEO Inhouse Case Studies: Zahlen, Fails und Learnings
Stefano Stancari
SEO Lead at idealo
Building AI Content Systems at Scale for Quality and Trust
Teresa Schmitt
Director Customer Marketing at E. Breuninger GmbH & Co.
SEA Inhouse: Neue KPIs, neue Rollen, neue Spielregeln mit Agenturen
Alexander Rus
Founder at Evergreen Media
Vom Linkprofil zur Netzwerkpräsenz: Digital PR für KI-Sichtbarkeit
Bernhard Prange
Founder at Webmasterei Prange
Vom Ads-Script zum PPC Tool mit KI: Architektur, Workflow und Praxisbeispiele
Bruno Löw
Founder and Managing Director at adMates
Priorisierung von Maßnahmen in GEO, SEO und SEA: Von Silos zu einem gemeinsamen Prozess
Christopher Bock
Content Marketing Strategist / KI Specialist at ERBACHER food Family
Friederike Hagen
Senior Search Specialist at ARD SEO Expert Group
Content-Strukturen mit System: Taxonomien strategisch aufbauen und dauerhaft pflegen
Jil Serpeur
SEO & Sales Psychology Expert at Serpeur Strategies
Der Mensch hinter der Suchanfrage – Zielgruppenverständnis in der AI-Ära
Joanna Booth
Managing Director at Organic Growth Team
John Luca Niessen
Vom fragmentierten Setup zum vernetzten Kundendialog: Wie JUNG CRM, Marketing Automation und digitale Touchpoints verbindet
Kennedy
Author of Psych-Stacked Email Marketing at Email Marketing Heroes
How to Mine Your Own Original Ideas to Create Un-Copy-Able Content
Matthias von Pfaler
Senior Performance Marketing Manager at norisk GmbH
Wir haben PMax abgeschaltet. Passiert ist: nichts. Was das über Streuverluste im SEA verrät
Nemo Tronnier
Co-Founder & Managing Director at Social DNA
B2Boring? Von wegen! Wie MANN-FILTER KI, viralen Content und starkes Branding verbindet
Pascal Janzik
Associate Director Digital & eCommerce at Linde plc
Von der Suche zum Dialog: Wie KI die B2B Product Discovery neu definiert
Sebastian Stryj
Managing Director at THE BOUTIQUE AGENCY
Der Tag nach dem Go-live: Was KI und Automatisierung im SEA-Dauerbetrieb wirklich brauchen
Yvonne Romes-Schillack
Managing Director and Founder at planinja Consulting
Wie GEO-Analysen Produkte verändern: Vier Beispiele aus der Praxis
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