Who was on stage?
People with real stakes in the work; who run large sites, experiment daily, and use Ahrefs at the highest level. They broke down what they were doing: the decisions, the tradeoffs, and the data behind them.
Main stage speakers
Ann Handley
Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Partner, MarketingProfs
Ross Simmonds
Founder & CEO, Foundation Marketing, Distribution.ai
Tim Soulo
Chief Marketing Officer, Ahrefs
Rand Fishkin
CEO, Co-Founder, SparkToro, Alertmouse, & Snackbar Studio
Aleyda Solis
International SEO Consultant & Founder, Orainti
Austin Lau
Growth Marketing, Anthropic
Tara Robertson
CMO, Bitly
Brianna Doe
Founder & CEO, Creator, Verbatim, Stop the Scroll
Ethan Smith
CEO, Graphite
Michelle Lindner
Podcast Producer, EA to CMO, Community Manager, Ahrefs
Alina Vandenberghe
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Chili Piper
Harry Dry
Founder, Copy // Marketing Examples
Ross Hudgens
Founder/CEO, Siege Media
Kamila Olexa
Product Marketer, Ahrefs
All other speakers
Dawood Bukhari
CEO, Digital Web Solutions
Chris Porteous
Startup Founder and CEO, SearchEye
Jen Cornwell
Sr. Director of AI SEO Innovation, Tinuiti
Farzad Rashidi
Founder, Respona
Noah Greenberg
CEO, Stacker
Rob Delory
Enterprise Account Manager, Ahrefs
Jonah Pessin
SEO Manager, Squarespace
No glossy frameworks. No theory for theory’s sake.
20+ speakers walking through the workflows they’re actually running — what’s working in AEO and SEO right now, and what’s quietly stopped working.
Cut through the hype and FOMO: see how modern marketing teams were actually operating in 2026.
