SEO & Search Marketing

Search SEOul 2026

Search SEOul 2026 is South Korea's leading SEO conference, bringing together international and Asian professionals to exchange insights on cross-border SEO and strategies that work across regions. The event features over 20 global speakers and expects more than 200 attendees. With two full conference days, networking events, and sessions on local and global…

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27Speakers
7Sponsors
33Sessions
25Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Search, in alphabetical order.

Aleyda Solis
SEO Consultant & Founder at Orainti · Orainti
Aleyda Solís
Orainti
Andre Alpar
board member & advisor of alpar ventures · alpar ventures
Anikó Hoang
Global Marketing Lead at Digital Web Solutions (DWS) · Digital Web Solutions (DWS)
Cristina Song
SEO Lead & Co-founder at Xpandir · Xpandir
Fabian Seow
SEO Technical Director at First Page · First Page
Gary Illyes
Search Relations at Google Search Team · Google
Glen Ingram
Founder and Compliance Officer at Elite, Web Co., Web Search Pros & Web A11y · Elite, Web Co., Web Search Pros & Web A11y
Hyowon Brian Yang
SEO Specialist at Hyundai Motor Company · Hyundai Motor Company
Isaac Díaz
Head of content at Holafly · Holafly
Jiyoung Lee
Co-CEO & Digital Growth Strategist at Xpandir · Xpandir
Jonathan Moore
Technical SEO and analytics consultant · Jonathan Moore Consultancy
Jori Ford
Sr. Direct AI-driven SEO at The Aspen Group · The Aspen Group
Kenichi Suzuki
Search Advocate at Faber Company Inc. · Faber Company Inc.
Marcus Pentzek
Partner & Director SEO at Jademond · Jademond
Michaela Park
Founder of Search SEOul, SEO Content Specialist at Holafly · Holafly
Moojin Kang
CEO at Artience · Artience
Natalia Witczyk
CEO & International SEO Consultant at Mosquita Digital · Mosquita Digital
Raquel González
Ray Grieselhuber
Founder & CEO of DemandSphere · DemandSphere
Seyong Park
CEO at ascent ai · ASCENT AI
Silvia Martin
SEO Consultant and founder at Trebole · Trebole

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

ArtiencePlatinum
Ascent AIPlatinum
Advanced Web Ranking
Ahrefs
Search Nine
Seoulful Connect
Umoh

Agenda

Selected from 33 sessions.

  • 09:15 - 09:45

    From Prompt to Purchase: A GEO Strategy for D2C Brands in the Age of Agentic Commerce

  • 10:15 - 10:45

    Coffee break

  • 10:20 - 10:50

    Coffee break

  • 10:45 - 11:15

    Stop Writing for AI. Start Structuring Knowledge: Ontology for the Next Era of GEO

  • 10:50 - 11:20

    Beyond Baidu: Navigating China’s Fragmented Search & GEO Ecosystem

  • 11:15 - 11:45

    #1 on Google, Invisible in ChatGPT? - GEO Field-Tested Playbook to Make AI Systems Recommend Your Brand

  • 11:20 - 11:50

    Lessons from the Trenches of Enterprise AI Search

  • 11:45 - 12:15

    Rethinking GEO: An In-House Perspective on Search Everywhere Optimization

  • 11:50 - 12:20

    Break the News (and Rankings) with Digital PR

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 25 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

25 companies. three are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
3All threespeak · spons · exh
4Sponsoringsponsor only
18Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Ahrefs·Artience·Ascent AI

Speakers by seniority

56% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite622%
  • Founder / Owner726%
  • Director / Head of27%
  • Manager / Lead14%
  • Engineer · IC27%
  • Marketing / Brand27%
  • Advisor / Investor14%
  • Other roles622%

Of 27 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AhrefsSponsor2
2ArtienceSponsor · Platinum2
3Ascent AISponsor · Platinum1
4Advanced Web RankingSponsor-
5Search NineSponsor-
6Seoulful ConnectSponsor-
7UmohSponsor-
8Holafly2
9Orainti2
10Xpandir2
11alpar ventures1
12Blogtalk1
13Common Crawl Foundation1
14DemandSphere1
Sponsors by tier
platinum2
29% of 7
unspecified5
71% of 7