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Lucas Tieleman | Optiversal
Why AEO Starts With Better SEO Fundamentals
AI Overviews now appear in 40% of Google searches, up from 6% in six months. Lucas Tieleman, co-founder of Optiversal, helps enterprise retailers turn static product catalogs into machine-readable content that performs across Google, ChatGPT, and Google Merchant Center. He breaks down why structured data and clean entity relationships matter more now than five years…
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Thenuka Karunaratne | sunbeam & daydream
How Autonomous SEO Agents Are Replacing Traditional SEO Work
AI agents now autonomously execute full SEO workflows, not just tasks. Thenuka Karunaratne, CEO and co-founder of Sunbeam and Daydream, raised $20M+ building an AI-native SEO agency serving Notion, Replit, and Clay before launching Sunbeam, an autonomous SEO agent that has moved beyond workflow automation. Karunaratne breaks down why proactive "teammate" agents outperform reactive workflow-based…
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Chester Scott | Lunio
How Bad Data Corrupts AI Bidding and CAC Performance
Up to 60% of paid clicks provide zero conversion value. Chester Scott, Chief Strategy Officer at Lunio, explains why clicks and ROAS both distort performance measurement and how they corrupt AI bidding decisions. The conversation covers the shift from ROAS to marginal ROAS as a North Star metric, isolating diminishing returns across channels, platforms, and…
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Joe Doran | Botify
How AI Search Is Reshaping Retail Media and Discovery
Enterprise retailers index only 40-50% of their product pages. Joe Doran, Chief Product Officer at Botify, analyzes AI search readiness across retail sites where 9 of 10 products contain three to seven feed errors or missing fields. The conversation covers crawl efficiency and rendering gaps that leave LLM bots seeing just 30-40% of JavaScript-dependent content,…
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Joy Hawkins | Sterling Sky
How Local SEO is Evolving in AI Discovery
Local pack ads surged from 1% to 22% of tracked local searches. Joy Hawkins, owner and president of Sterling Sky, has led more than 1,000 local SEO ranking-factor tests across nearly two decades in the space. The conversation covers lead qualification frameworks that go beyond call tracking to define true conversions, review-volume strategies for competing…
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Dr. Fern Halper | TDWI
Why Many Companies still aren’t Ready for AI Adoption
Most AI initiatives stall in experimentation mode. Dr. Fern Halper, VP and Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics at TDWI and founder of the AI Foundations Group, explains why organizations struggle to convert AI pilots into measurable business value. The conversation covers the foundational systems required to operationalize AI beyond experimentation, the organizational readiness gaps…
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David Ebner | Content Workshop
Why Brand Storytelling Still Drives Results in the AI Era
AI content collapses the gap between passable and good. David Ebner, President and Founder of Content Workshop and Chatter, brings 13 years of enterprise content strategy across high-stakes verticals like cybersecurity to explain why brand storytelling now separates differentiated brands from homogenized AI output. Learn how to define brand story as audience transformation rather than…
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Sophie Logan | Rough Agenda
Why Search Communities Matter More Than Ever in AI
AI adoption is reshaping how SEO professionals learn and connect. Sophie Logan of Rough Agenda brings deep expertise in building search communities and orchestrating industry events that drive real practitioner value. The conversation covers structuring conference attendance for maximum ROI, from agenda mapping and session prioritization to strategic networking, and why in-person community connection becomes…
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Danny Goodwin | Search Engine Land
SMX’s Future of Search Predictions
AI agents are generating significant industry hype, but Google isn't going anywhere. Danny Goodwin, Editorial Director of Search Engine Land and SMX, draws on his oversight of editorial coverage across SEO, PPC, and AI search to separate signal from noise in the future-of-search conversation. He reframes AI agents as functional extensions of human intent rather…
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