brightonSEO Octobre 2026
The world's largest search marketing conference, twice a year in Brighton
brightonSEO Octobre 2026
This edition is over. The information is kept for reference.
Overview
Started in 2010 as a meetup above a pub, brightonSEO now brings 4,000+ attendees to the Brighton Centre for two days of talks. Hundreds of sessions cover technical SEO, AI search, content and digital PR, with a training day beforehand and the MeasureFest analytics track included. Organised by Rough Agenda (RoughAgenda Ltd).
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Who is it for?
In-house SEOs, agencies, freelancers and digital marketing managers, from beginners to seniors
Topics
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Speakers
148 speakers announced
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Jean Sarunporn
« Getting Your Brand Recommended by AI Agents: A Practical Guide to GEO »
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Paris Childress
CEO · Hop AI
« Information Gain: The Missing Metric in Every GEO Content Strategy? »
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Founder and CEO · Writesonic
« Drowning in prompts? How to build an AEO program around the data that matters »
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Global SEO Operations Manager · Philip Morris International
« Automate Anything with Python + AI in Minutes - Zero Skills Required »
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Founder \u0026 CEO · Anicca AI \u0026 Insights
« Adding Claude Code to Your Search Marketing Toolkit »
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Chief Commercial Officer · Trendos
« Who AI Cites Now: How Source Patterns Shifted Since December 2025 »
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Jeremy Burgos
Senior Growth Marketer · GoHighLevel
« 3 Ways AI Is Turning More Leads Into Sales »
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SEO Mindset Coach · AV Coaching
« Please stop explaining SEO: How to sell without feeling salesy »
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SEO \u0026 Digital Strategy Consultant · Freelance
« From Rankings to Ranges: How to Forecast SEO in 2026 »
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Charles Meaden
Founder · Digital Nation
« Google Search Console Big Query Export - The Almost Free SEO Database Full of Gold »
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Zac Nash
Data Engineering Director · Fresh Egg
« Lessons from Building a Thinking Analytics Agent »
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Arpan Bumb
Lead Analyst · Wise
« From Impression to Transaction: An AI Powered Framework for Explaining End-to-End Organic Funnel Metrics in Enterprise SEO »
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Digital Marketing Manager · ADP
« The Traditional Media Agency is Dead. What Comes Next? »
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Spencer Stein
Account Manager · Conductor
« Good Data In, Good Data Out: The Prompt Index, MCP, and What AI Visibility Can Unlock With an Expert Approach »
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Tamara Novitović
« Masterclass: Beginners Technical SEO »
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Director of Organic Growth \u0026 Partnerships · Welltech
« Smash Your SEO & Reputation Goals with One Word: Reddit »
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LinkedIn \u0026 Personal Brand Expert · SA Personal Branding
« The Future of B2B Marketing: The LinkedIn Social Selling & Personal Brand Matrix »
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Brand and Omnichannel Content Strategist · The Blackwell Clinic
« TikTok SEO: The Search Strategy Most Brands Still Aren't Using »
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Podcast Producer \u0026 Marketing Consultant · Lyrebird Studios
« The SEO Case for Podcasting: Your Perfect E-E-A-T Strategy »
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Sophie Winkels
News SEO Specialist · DPG Media
« Headlines to bottom lines: turning newsroom E-E-A-T into corporate conversion »
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Director of Operations · Eleven Writing
« Best of Both Worlds: AI Content Systems with True Human EEAT »
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Katie Mishner
SEO Manager · Blue Array
« E-E-E-A-T: A Case for Adding 'Empathy' To Your SEO Strategy »
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People Director · Reflect Digital
« Decoding the Individual: Using Personal Values to Unlock Team Potential »
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Petra Kis-Herczegh
« Your AI Transition Is a People Problem. »
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Nikki Goodman
Head of the SEO Team · Sleeping Giant Media
« Why SEO Recommendations Don't Get Implemented (Even When They Are Right) »
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Head of Search Marketing · SOZO
« How Claude Code Helped Me Transform Reporting and Delivery for AI Search and SEO »
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Peter Longton
Customer Data Lead · Pi Datametrics
« From Measuring Search to Measuring Everything »
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Marketing Manager · ID Card Centre
« Facets to Fortune: How to Optimise Your Ecommerce Filters for Revenue »
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Freelance eCommerce SEO · David Bryan SEO
« The Hidden Architecture of High-Ranking eCommerce Product Pages: The Technical Systems That Actually Move Revenue »
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Marketing manager and data analyst · Sistrix
« Ecommerce & Retail Leaders: Food and Drink Sector »
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Margaux Marshall
Search Specialist \u0026 Agency Founder · MGX Digital
« Beyond The Audit: The Messy Side of Shopify Technical SEO »
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Director of Strategy · Monday Clicks
« From Query to Sale: Engineering Search Journeys That Convert »
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Founder · We Are Pioneers
« From Gut Checks to Guardrails: Deploying Trustworthy AI for Marketing QA »
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Sam Page
Head of AEO/SEO Services · AirOps
« Win at Local AEO - The Wild West of AI Search »
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Managing Director \u0026 Co-Founder · The Inbox Club
« WhatsApp and Email Marketing - The Killer Lifecycle Combo »
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Joseph Bauermeister
SEO Strategist · Oban International
« Why search insights belong in the boardroom and how to get them there. »
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Tom Stanton
Executive Director, Strategy · Anything is Possible
« What prompt analysis says about sectors, strategy… and the changing role of SEOs. »
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Experimentation and Analytics Director · Conversions Matter LTD
« AI - With great power comes great responsibility »
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Ayisha Yousef
Founder/Director · What Matters Media
« Good Data, Bad Decisions »
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SEO Lead · NSPCC
« Beyond AI Search: 5 Ways Charities Can Win in a Fragmented Search Landscape »
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Lucas Kolping
« Beyond SEO Deliverables: Simple Tips to Become the Trusted Advisor Your Clients Never Want to Leave »
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Edward (Teddie) Cowell
Global VP, SEO \u0026 GSO (AI Search) · WPP Media
« No Clicks? No Rankings? No Problem: How AI Panic is Giving SEO a Seat at the C-Suite Table »
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Founder · Polka Dot Data Ltd
« Masterclass: Utilising GA4 & More for Data Driven SEO Systems »
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Co-founder and Principal Consultant · Vaer AI
« All Mentions are not created equal in AI search. »
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Director · Cedarwood Digital
« Using AI & Custom GPTs To Take Your Digital PR Strategies To The Next Level »
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Website \u0026 SEO Specialist · The Hendy Group
« Stop Training Links, Start Training AI: Your Guide For E-E-A-T First Digital PR »
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CEO · JBH
« Prove It: A Digital PR Playbook for Winning AI Citations and Reporting GEO Impact »
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Head of Growth · Friday Media Group
« Ditch the GPS for a Compass! Why Directional Data Trumps Measurement Perfection »
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Head of Strategy · Arke Agency
« From marketing metrics to board decisions: how to report performance in a way that unlocks investment »
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SEO Manager, Enterprise SEO \u0026 Product · JAKALA
« Common mistakes in Large-scale site migration »
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Founder · Oxford Comma
« Migrations & AI Visibility Lag: The part of the migration that takes a lot longer than expected »
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Dena Warren
SEO Lead · Techquity
« Migrations without the traffic cliff dive »
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Head of SEO \u0026 Growth · Campeon Gaming
« Masterclass: Content Strategy in the AI Era »
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Grigoris Konomi
AI Architect · Campeon Gaming
« Masterclass: Content Strategy in the AI Era »
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Content marketer and strategist · Freelance
« 5 Things Google Patents Reveal About Why SEO Feels Harder in 2026 »
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Director of Content Marketing · Ahrefs
« How We Built a Content Engineering System for the Ahrefs Blog »
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Answer Engine Optimization Strategist \u0026 Researcher · Profound
« Owning the second layer of AI search »
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Director · Decabbit Consultancy
« Schema in the AI Era: From Rich Results to Machine Interpretation »
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Head of Technical SEO · Glass Atlas
« Getting Under the Hood of Screaming Frog CLI for Automating Tech SEO »
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Founder \u0026 International Search Consultant · Searchpedia
« Schema beyond rich results: what structured data actually does in modern search systems »
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Founder of ThatWare® · THATWARE® LLP
« It's Not Enough to be Cited: How AI Systems Draw Conclusions About Brands »
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Jonathan Kiekbusch
Managing Director · SwishDM
« Getting Cited Is the Easy Part: How to Change What AI Actually Says About You »
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CEO · Searchable
« What a billion sources teach us about getting mentioned & cited in AI »
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Founder \u0026 CEO · Attributed Marketing
« Attribution Is Dead. Long Live Decision-Making »
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Head of Data and Analytics · Launch Online
« Beyond the Browser: Why Server-Side Tracking Changes Everything »
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Director, Solutions and Enablement Strategy · 120Feet
« More Data, Zero Consent: What the UK's New Consent Law Just Unlocked »
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Founder/Head of Marketing · REM Digital Ltd
« The Art of Vibe Coding: Shipping Fast Without Breaking Everything »
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Technical SEO Director · Dentsu
« Robots With Wallets, Futureproofing Product Feeds For Agentic Shopping »
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CTO and co-founder · JetOctopus
« Masterclass: AI Search Optimisation & LLM Visibility »
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Web accessibility activist · Damien Robert
« Web accessibility is SEO: If people can’t use it, search won’t trust it »
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Founder \u0026 Consultant · Tania Gerard Digital
« If Your Website Isn’t Accessible, AI Search Will Make You Invisible »
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AI Consultant \u0026 Digital Transformation Leader · Azahara Corrales
« The Prompt Tax: What Happens When You Ask AI to Find Experts »
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Organic and AI Search Lead · Hallam
« Predictive SEO: Wiring Reddit, GSC Impressions and BigQuery into an Opportunity Engine »
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Rüdiger Dalchow
« How to Turn Search Data into Market Intelligence »
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Co-Founder \u0026 CEO · Promptwatch
« The Trust Problem Nobody Is Solving in AI Search: These AI optimisation tactics could tank your traditional rankings »
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Tom Rudnai
Founder \u0026 CEO · Demand Genius
« Your AI Visibility Metrics are Lying to You: How Conversational Context Impacts AI Responses »
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SEO GROUP ACCOUNT DIRECTOR · FOUND
« Diagnosing Rendering and Indexing Issues with the URL Inspection API »
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Mark Williams-Cook
« Wiretapping the SERP: Capturing Network Data to Reverse Engineer Search »
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John McAlpin
Technical SEO Director · LOCOMOTIVE
« Log Files Don't Lie: A 30-Day Crawl Analysis That Changed How We Prioritize Technical SEO »
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Adriana Wertheimer
Senior Digital Strategist · exceptional™
« The Performance Marketing Comfort Zone: How to spot when your data is stopping you from taking smarter risks »
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Paul Ace
Founder · EverConvert
« What We Learned After Running 1,000 Split Tests So You Don't Have To »
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Harry Gadsby
Founder · Pengwing.io
« Two in five reports are never opened »
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CPO \u0026 CMO · Peec AI
« ChatGPT Shopping: Lessons from analysing 1M+ products in 250M+ chats »
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Stijn Bergmans
Head of AI Search · Follo Agency
« 7 Tactics for Winning Agentic Search & Shopping, Learned From Building Our Own AI Stack and 200+ Client Cases »
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SEO Account Manager · NOVOS
« PDPs Over PLPs: How to Win Organic Visibility with Product Pages »
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Adam Preston
Head of SEO \u0026 AEO · Summit
« What are the biggest factors influencing AI visibility for retailers? »
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Senior SEO Executive · Snaptrip Group
« Stop guessing what works on a page. Start extracting it. »
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Data \u0026 Analytics Manager · Varn
« Where did my customer go? How to follow and analyse real user journeys »
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Andrew Chadwick
Co-Founder · Snippet Digital
« ChatGPT Doesn't Rank Brands. It Ranks Customers: How to Track AI Visibility That's Actually Real »
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Senior Performance Analyst · Office for National Statistics
« AI Search Accuracy and Misinformation with Google's AI Overviews »
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Rachel McLeay
Strategy \u0026 Innovation Lead · Kaizen
« Reddit Will Bury You in Downvotes: Winning Visibility Without Ever Posting »
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Laura Smith
Head of Client Strategy · ICS-digital
« Developing a Distinctive E-commerce Brand: Owning Contexts in AI search »
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CEO · OtterlyAI
« 25% of Our Revenue Comes from AI Search: What Works, What Doesn't, and What We Learned Getting There »
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Director of Manchester · connective3
« The New Search Journey: Why Influence Is the New SEO Metric »
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Strategy Director · Digitaloft
« Driving Visibility, Clicks & Sales with Product PR in the Era of AI Search »
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Director of Marketing and Sales · Originality.ai
« How to Build Digital PR Campaigns That Earn Tier-1 Media »
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Head of Digital PR \u0026 Outreach · Scrap Car Comparison
« The Missing Link Between PR and Profit »
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Gareth Beck
Lead Web Analyst · Torchbox
« The Missing Link in Your Analytics: Why Measurement Planning Matters »
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Head of Sales · Addingwell
« sGTM: The signal loss hiding inside your server-side setup »
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Harry Gordon-Lote
« The tracking errors your debugger can't See, and the 15-minute check that finds them »
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Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies · University of Sussex
« AI Literacy: What It Is and Why Your Workforce Needs It »
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Vishal Mahida
Director Of Digital Marketing · E2M Solutions
« Selling GEO: What Clients Actually Want and How to Close the Deal »
Directory tools represented
These European publishers from the directory are among the speakers: a chance to meet their teams on site.
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SISTRIXwith Steve Paine
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Peec AIwith Malte Landwehr
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OtterlyAIwith Thomas Peham
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Promptwatchwith Gijs de Groot
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InLinkswith Dixon Jones
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JetOctopuswith Serge Bezborodov
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Trendoswith Gintarė Rimolaitytė
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Waikaywith Dixon Jones
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Searchablewith Chris Donnelly
Latest replays
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Frequently asked questions
When is brightonSEO Octobre 2026?
brightonSEO Octobre 2026 takes place on 8-9 October 2026 (2 days).
Where does brightonSEO Octobre 2026 take place?
brightonSEO Octobre 2026 takes place at: Brighton Centre, Kings Road, Brighton BN1 2GR, Royaume-Uni, Brighton, United Kingdom.
How much does brightonSEO Octobre 2026 cost?
Tickets for brightonSEO Octobre 2026: From £500 to £1 000. 2-day pass from 500 GBP ex VAT (before 1 Oct), BFF VIP 750 GBP, with training up to 1,000 GBP ex VAT, 50% off U21 students.
What language is brightonSEO Octobre 2026 in?
The talks at brightonSEO Octobre 2026 are given in English.
Can I attend brightonSEO Octobre 2026 online?
No, brightonSEO Octobre 2026 is in person only.
Who is speaking at brightonSEO Octobre 2026?
148 speakers have been announced, including Jean Sarunporn, Paris Childress (Hop AI), Samanyou Garg (Writesonic), Marco Bonomo (Philip Morris International), Ann Stanley (Anicca AI \u0026 Insights).
Who is brightonSEO Octobre 2026 for?
In-house SEOs, agencies, freelancers and digital marketing managers, from beginners to seniors
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