WordCamp Costa Rica 2026
Two-day Spanish-language WordPress conference in San Jose combining masterclasses on day one with talks and workshops on day two. Topics include applied AI, WooCommerce and ecommerce integrations.
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Independent · Vendor-neutral · Open data
The complete map of the search industry.
Every conference worth attending, every organization worth knowing, every publication worth reading, every tool worth evaluating, for classic SEO and for the generative engines that now sit in front of it. One catalogue, 2,155 entries, no advertorial.
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Upcoming events
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Countries
241
Organizations
335
Media outlets
288
Tools
331
Defined terms
Happening next
The soonest 9 events on the calendar. The marketplace holds every edition we can verify, including those whose dates are still unannounced.
WordCamp Kathmandu 2026
Annual WordPress conference for Nepal and South Asia, held over two days in Kathmandu with sessions on WordPress development, WooCommerce, security, hosting and localisation.
DevEcommerce
MeasureCamp Auckland 2026
Free, volunteer-run unconference for analytics and measurement practitioners, part of the global MeasureCamp barcamp network. The agenda is created by attendees on the morning of the event.
Free tierTodayAnalyticsDev
WordCamp Jinja 2026
Community-run WordPress conference in Uganda covering site building, content publishing and web performance.
TodayDevContent
MeasureCamp Chicago 2026
Volunteer-run unconference for web analytics and measurement professionals, with an agenda set by attendees on the day. Topics regularly include search data, GA4 and attribution.
Free tierTodayAnalyticsDev
SEOktoberfest 2026 (G50 Summit)
Invitation-only, all-inclusive SEO retreat held at a resort in the Austrian Alps. Combines closed-door technical sessions with an extended social programme; attendance is limited and typically sells out.
GEO / AI searchTomorrowAI
Digital Marketing Asia Singapore 2026
Flagship Singapore edition of Marketing-Interactive's regional digital marketing conference, aimed at senior brand-side marketers across Asia.
GEO / AI searchIn 3 daysGrowthContent
DigiMarCon Dubai 2026
2026 Dubai edition of the DigiMarCon digital marketing, media and advertising conference series.
GEO / AI searchHybridIn 3 daysPPCSocial
Seamless Digital Commerce ME 2026
Large Middle Eastern ecommerce, digital marketing, retail and payments exhibition and conference, co-located with Seamless Fintech ME, Home Delivery World ME and Shop Arabia.
In 3 daysEcommerceGrowth
10 directories
Each one maintained as a first-class dataset, filterable, and published openly.
Events
Search, SEO, GEO and digital-marketing conferences across 54 countries, dates, cities, pricing and call-for-papers deadlines in one place.
GEO & AI search
Generative engine optimization: the events, the vendors, the crawler documentation and the vocabulary of optimising for AI answers.
Organizations
Trade associations, communities, standards bodies, awards, regulators and the search engines themselves.
Media
News desks, independent blogs, podcasts, newsletters, YouTube channels and forums, in English and a dozen other languages.
People
The consultants, in-house leads, engineers, analysts and search-engine representatives whose work defines the discipline.
Tools
Crawlers, rank trackers, link indexes, content platforms, log analysers, SERP APIs and AI-visibility monitors.
Startups
New entrants, funding rounds, acquisitions and shutdowns across search, content and AI-visibility software.
Reference library
Official search-engine documentation, standards and RFCs, books, courses, landmark studies and open datasets.
Algorithm updates
A dated timeline of every confirmed ranking and platform change, with rollout windows, and honest labelling of what was never officially acknowledged.
Glossary
Every term in search, defined precisely and kept current, from crawl budget to citation share.
Generative engine optimization
AI answers changed what "ranking" means. The Atlas tracks the events, vendors and documentation of this category separately, because it moves faster than the rest of the field.
SEOktoberfest 2026 (G50 Summit)
Invitation-only, all-inclusive SEO retreat held at a resort in the Austrian Alps. Combines closed-door technical sessions with an extended social programme; attendance is limited and typically sells out.
GEO / AI searchTomorrowAI
Digital Marketing Asia Singapore 2026
Flagship Singapore edition of Marketing-Interactive's regional digital marketing conference, aimed at senior brand-side marketers across Asia.
GEO / AI searchIn 3 daysGrowthContent
DigiMarCon Dubai 2026
2026 Dubai edition of the DigiMarCon digital marketing, media and advertising conference series.
GEO / AI searchHybridIn 3 daysPPCSocial
Open calls for papers
Conferences currently accepting speaker submissions, soonest deadline first.
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, focused on user-centred approaches to designing and evaluating information access systems. Increasingly relevant to generative search research through work on conversational and AI-mediated information seeking.
GEO
Advanced-level European edition of the Search Marketing Expo series. Two days of sessions across SEO, PPC, GEO and AI followed by a dedicated deep dive day.
GEO
Three-day international marketing conference in Vilnius, opening with a workshop day followed by two conference days in a cinema-style setting. Covers AI automation, GEO, SEO, CRO, pricing and digital PR.
GEO
Twentieth edition of Italy's longest-running search conference, formerly Convegno GT and then Search Marketing Connect. Two days on artificial intelligence, search technology and advanced SEO.
GEO
One-day technical SEO conference held in a cinema venue in Hamburg's HafenCity. Focused on crawling, indexing, rendering and site architecture.
GEO
Premier annual academic forum for research on the Web, including information retrieval, search, recommendation and generative systems. Programme includes research sessions, workshops, tutorials and an industry track followed by search practitioners.
GEO
New in the market
Recently founded or recently funded companies building for search and AI visibility.
End-to-end AI search optimization platform
Promptwatch is an Amsterdam AI search optimization platform launched in April 2025 that monitors and improves brand presence in AI answers. It raised a EUR 6 million seed round led by Seed + Speed Ventures in July 2026 after a EUR 1.2 million pre-seed; fundingTotalUsd is left null because the amounts were reported in euros.
GEO AI Visibilitypromptwatch.com
Corpus engineering for brand representation inside AI models
geoSurge targets how models such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude internally learn and represent a brand over time rather than only tracking citations. It raised a $12M seed led by AlbionVC, described at the time as the largest seed round in the GEO category.
GEO AI Visibilitygeosurge.ai
Search engine and API built for AI agents
Exa builds a web search index and API designed for LLMs and agents rather than human browsing, plus Websets for high-compute research queries. It raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark in September 2025 and a $250M Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz in May 2026 at a $2.2B valuation.
SERP APIexa.ai
Agentic marketing platform for enterprise brands in AI channels
Bluefish processes AI prompts and responses across ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Perplexity and Amazon Rufus to show enterprises how their products are portrayed, and turns that into marketing actions. It raised a $20M Series A led by NEA in August 2025 and a $43M Series B co-led by Threshold Ventures and NEA in April 2026.
GEO AI Visibility
AI agents plus human practitioners for search growth
Daydream is a San Francisco agency that pairs proprietary SEO and AEO agents with human strategists to run search programmes for clients. It raised a $15M Series A led by WndrCo in April 2026, bringing total funding to $21M. Not related to the fashion shopping agent of the same name.
Agencywithdaydream.com
AI search visibility platform
Cognizo is an AI search visibility platform founded by a team of LLM researchers and marketing operators. Secondary sources report a $1.8M pre-seed round in March 2026.
GEO AI Visibility
The canon
References that every serious practitioner should have read at least once.
Rand Fishkin
Clickstream-based analysis finding that for every 1,000 Google searches only about 360 clicks reach the open web in the US and about 374 in the EU, with the remainder ending in no click or a click to a Google-owned property.
sparktoro.com
Google Search Central
Google's documentation on how AI Overviews and AI Mode source content, the eligibility requirements, and the preview controls site owners can use to limit inclusion.
developers.google.com
Jon M. Kleinberg
Kleinberg's paper introducing the hubs-and-authorities model of link analysis, developed contemporaneously with PageRank and still the reference point for topical authority arguments.
cs.cornell.edu
Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova
The model Google deployed in Search in 2019 to better interpret query context and prepositions. The technical basis for the shift away from keyword matching toward passage-level meaning.
arxiv.org
Microsoft Bing
Bing's published expectations for content, technical implementation and link acquisition, plus the practices Bing treats as abuse. The main non-Google engine policy document in English.
bing.com
Common Crawl Foundation
Free, openly licensed petabyte-scale archive of web crawl data with monthly releases of WARC, WAT and WET files plus columnar indexes. Heavily used for link graph research and LLM pretraining.
commoncrawl.org
Google Search Central
Google's self-assessment questions on content quality, expertise and originality. Includes Google's public explanation of E-E-A-T and of who, how and why in content creation.
developers.google.com
Anthropic
Anthropic's official help article describing ClaudeBot, Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot, their robots.txt tokens and the crawling practices Anthropic follows.
support.claude.com
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