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Tech SEO Connect 2026

A two-day in-person conference in Durham, North Carolina, dedicated entirely to technical SEO: crawling, rendering, large datasets and machine learning.

About Tech SEO Connect 2026

Tech SEO Connect is a two-day, single-track conference dedicated entirely to technical SEO. Talks cover crawling and rendering, working with large amounts of data and using machine learning to speed up SEO work, with no sessions on SEO basics or link building.

The conference is organized by Mike King, JR Oakes, Patrick Stox and Matthew Kay, who launched it in 2024, inspired by the small gatherings of TechSEO Boost in Boston. It is kept small enough for attendees to get to know each other, and everyone follows the same track.

A welcome party is held the evening before, and the first day ends with a happy hour and an after party. Talks are livestreamed, and recordings are freely available on YouTube.

Speakers at Tech SEO Connect 2026

This event features talks by the following speakers

Aleyda Solis

Founder at Orainti

Founder at SEOFOMO

Technical SEO in the AI Search Era in 2026: The Shifts, Trends and What to Do About Them

Cindy Krum

CEO & Founder at MobileMoxie

Video SEO to Super-Charge AIO Visibility

Jori Ford

Senior Director, AI Search at TAG, the Aspen Group

When Server Logs Lie: The Wire-Level Truth Behind Googlebot’s Ghost Errors

Krishna Madhavan

Principal Product Manager at Microsoft AI

Solid Ground: What AI Agents Stand On, and Why It Shifts

Metehan Yeşilyurt

GEO Researcher at Peec AI

The Leaked ChatGPT Ranking Stack: How OpenAI Scores Every Webpage

Michael King

Founder & CEO at iPullRank

SEOs Don’t Actually Do Marketing and It Shows

Ray Grieselhuber

Founder & CEO at DemandSphere

Why Google Is Taking Aggressive Action on SERP Data Collection and What to Do About It

Sam Torres

Senior Manager, Technical SEO at Pipedrive

It Works on My Data: Dev Habits for SEOs Who Code With AI

Serge Bezborodov

Founder at EdgeComet

Evergreen Crawl: See Your Site Exactly as Googlebot Saw It

Zach Chahalis

VP of Relevance Engineering and Analytics at iPullRank

What I've Learned Doing Over 100 Website Replatformings and Migrations

JI

Jamie Indigo

Director of Engineering, Technical SEO at Cox Automotive Inc.

The Philosophy Minor’s Guide to Log Files

AS

Anfal Siddiqui

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Gemini at Google DeepMind

Can We Trust LLMs? The FACTS Benchmark Suite

JS

JP Sherman

Principal Product Manager, Search at Red Hat

Reciprocal Rank Fusion: How a Query’s Intents Collaborate to Build an Answer

DS

Darwin Santos

AI Search Product Growth at HubSpot

AI and the Rise of the Agentic Web

DB

David Bell

Chief Product Officer at Previsible

I Can't Code. Here's How I Built Our Entire Client Intelligence System Anyway

LG

Lauren Green

Technical AI SEO Manager at Microsoft

AI Bots on Your Site: What They See, Why It Matters, and Where to Draw the Line

SC

Savannah Casto

Business Intelligence Lead at LOCOMOTIVE Agency

Brand Visibility Reporting When No Single Data Source Covers It

VM

Vivan Marwaha

Content Marketing Lead at Profound

SEO in a Post-Google World

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