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Jordan Koene | Previsible

How Should Search Leaders Navigate the AI Shift?

Organic traffic down 30% while revenue holds flat points to an attribution problem, not a visibility problem. Jordan Koene, CEO and Co-Founder of Previsible, former CEO of Searchmetrics Inc. and former Head of SEO and Content Development at eBay, advises nearly 100 enterprise clients through the shift to AI discovery. He outlines why synthetic prompt-based…

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Venkata Pagadala | AT&T

Building AI Agents That Actually Work for Enterprise SEO

Agentic AI workflows fail without classified first-party data. Venkata Pagadala, AI Product Manager for Search at AT&T, classified 5.8 million queries, removed 3 million noise queries, and uses the resulting persona-based insights to build mockups that win leadership buy-in. He outlines a competitor-navigation and Wikipedia-driven L1/L2/L3 taxonomy that surfaces zero-search-volume, high-intent demand from Reddit, Quora,…

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Kaspar Szymanski | SearchBrothers.com

Google Spam Update: This episode is about prevention and SEO worst case scenario readiness.

Spam updates and manual actions are hitting sites simultaneously. Kaspar Szymanski, Senior Director at SearchBrothers and former senior member of Google's Search team, has led penalty recoveries for businesses where visibility dropped abruptly and has hands-on experience in webspam enforcement. He outlines a post-update investigation sequence: Search Console manual action check, long-term server log retention,…

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Siiri Lee | MANSCAPED

Who owns AI discovery?

AI is changing the way people discover information online—and SEO is no longer the responsibility of just one team. This episode explores the future of search, including AEO and GEO, and how businesses can adapt to AI-driven discovery. The conversation dives into decentralized SEO ownership, cross-functional collaboration, agency partnerships, and the importance of building strong…

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Alex Sherman | Bluefish AI

How Brands Build Trust & Visibility in AI Search

Roughly 20% of AI search responses contain factual inaccuracies. Alex Sherman, co-founder and CEO of Bluefish, an AI accuracy and visibility platform serving Fortune 500 brands, previously co-founded PromoteIQ, a retail media platform acquired by Microsoft. He outlines a first-party content strategy for closing model knowledge gaps, a systematic diagnostic-and-measurement framework for tracking post-optimization accuracy…

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Silvia Oviedo López | Blomma

Scaling teams, culture and product in the era of AI

Enterprise coaching at scale demands more than generic AI advice. Silvia Oviedo López, Co-founder and CEO of Blomma and former leader of 1,500-person teams at Canva and Pinterest, shares how she's building AI-powered coaching infrastructure that personalizes context across career transitions. The conversation covers a vision-plan-execution framework for organizational transformation, portable coaching context that persists…

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Jason Lax | SAP SE

Why SEO Rankings No Longer Drive Purchase Decisions

Rankings no longer predict whether buyers choose your brand. Jason Lax, senior SEO and AI expert at SAP, has spent nearly two decades building the company's global organic program and now leads its shift into AEO and GEO across dozens of markets. He details SAP's technical-plus-content split strategy, using LLM citation gaps and "why weren't…

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Tasia Custode | Brio Media

How Creators Are Adapting to Google’s Search Changes

YouTube view-to-subscriber ratios are declining as AI search expands into video. Tasia Custode, Founder and CEO of Brio Media, has published content weekly since 2020, building sustained audience growth by prioritizing helpfulness over virality. The conversation examines agentic search's shift from information retrieval to task completion, the monetization and attribution risks AI-generated summaries pose to…

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Jenna Hannon | Hatter

Separating AEO Expertise From Search Marketing Hype

Only one-third of Google searches now click through to the open web. Jenna Hannon, founder and CEO of Hatter and former product marketing lead at Uber Eats, argues that AEO success depends on marketing fundamentals, not channel-hacking. She and Tyson break down why brand differentiation and positioning outperform multi-channel content sprawl, how AI visibility metrics…

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