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Catch up on talks and speakers from previous years — all past editions are still available to explore. Browse the full lineup of speakers, read about their talks, and browse the photo galleries to get a feel for each event.

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Tech SEO Summit Talks 2025

Here you find detailed information about the speakers and topics from our 2025 conference.

We have written a short recap of the Tech SEO Summit 2025.

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Mark Williams-Cook, Digital Marketing Director of Candour:

Conceptual models, video games, and Google exploits

An exploration into understanding how Google's algorithms fit together, based on new axioms from a Google exploit which revealed parameters and values used by Google, wrapped in a protocol buffer, in the framework of your favourite video game.

Mark Williams-Cook has over 20 years of SEO experience and is co-owner of search agency Candour, the founder of AlsoAsked and runs multiple other websites and a UK e-commerce company. Outside of speaking at conferences, Mark has trained over 8,000 SEOs with his Udemy and in-person course, runs the Core Updates SEO newsletter, organises the annual SearchNorwichXL conference and finds security bugs for sport.

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Martin Splitt, Developer Relations Engineer at Google:

JavaScript Performance Optimization Primer

In this session we will look into a process to identify, hunt down and resolve performance issues stemming from JavaScript. We will explore the performance tab, performance tooling, parallelisation and more. We will also talk about the GPU and rendering performance a bit and see how a bit of CSS can make a big difference in performance.

Martin is a Developer Relations Engineer in Google's Search Relations team in Zurich. When he's not working, he's usually diving somewhere either warm or cold, as long as the water is deep enough.

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Gus Pelogia, Senior SEO Product Manager at Indeed:

How to run SEO A/B testing for large websites

Are you tired of saying “it depends” every other day? In this talk, Gus will show you how to run SEO A/B tests that will give more accurate answers to your optimization efforts. Content optimization, title changes, links, structured data and other optimization strategies can be measured using Causal Impact and measure how much a strategy impacted in your KPIs. You'll learn how to come up with a hypothesis, create control/test groups, run and improve tests - and talk about real business impact instead of SEO lingo.

Gus Pelogia is a journalist turned SEO professional, currently a Senior SEO Product Manager at Indeed, the #1 job site in the world. He spoke at events such as BrightonSEO, LondonSEOXL and Wolfgang Essentials. Gus is also a contributor to Moz, Wix and other well-known industry blogs.

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Roxana Stingu, Head of Search & SEO at Alamy:

Workflow automation for the productively lazy

What if you could reclaim hours of your day by automating the tasks you do over and over again? This talk dives into the practical and strategic side of workflow automation, showing you how to free up time, simplify repetitive processes, and turn “constructive laziness” into a powerful tool for productivity. You’ll leave with actionable insights to create scalable, efficient workflows that save time and deliver measurable results.

Roxana has a strong background in technical SEO, including enterprise SEO, image search, and ecommerce site search. As the Head of Search & SEO at Alamy, her diverse skill set is dedicated to making it easier for users to discover products across various platforms, ensuring they can find exactly what they need with ease.

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Dan Taylor, Partner & Head
of Technical SEO
of SALT.agency:

What to do if Google doesn’t stop crawling?

Imagine a website where Google accidentally gains access to two staging environments and starts crawling billions of URLs created by a technical flaw. What happens when Google stumbles into the wrong part of your website and how does this affect Google’s indexing and crawling attitude? In this session, we’ll answer this question by looking at a real example. We break down exactly how this happened, what analyzing log files revealed about Google’s crawl behavior, and the unexpected challenges of trying to undo the damage.

Dan Taylor is an SEO consultant and growth marketer with experience in improving the digital presence of companies, especially in eCommerce, SaaS, and travel sectors, including Cloudflare, Gitlab, TCGPlayer, Travel Supermarket, and Airbnb. He has spoken at conferences like BrightonSEO, Optimization Moscow, ITT Qatar, and TechSEO Boost, as well as conducting seminars with the Department for International Trade and Google Digital Garage.

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Pascal Landau, Director Marketing
Intelligence & Technology
at ABOUT YOU:

Demystifying Organic Product Grids

Did you know Google uses a “Global Product Cluster ID” for most of the products shown in Organic Product Grids? Or that there is an undocumented Google API hidden in the Chromium source code that provides this ID for a given product URL? These are some of the things we uncovered while deep-diving into the inner workings of Organic Product Grids and we’ll share our findings and our process to get there (cross referencing the leaked Content Warehouse API and the Chromium Code Search).

Pascal Landau is Technical Director of the Marketing Intelligence and Technology Unit at ABOUT YOU, leading teams in the fields of SEO, Web & App Tracking, Software Development and Data Analytics. He gained hands-on experience in most of these teams during the past 9 years and spent most of his time leading the development of ABOUT YOU’s Marketing Data Warehouse based on Google Big Query and a custom built ETL framework.

Conference and networking schedule 2025

TimeAgenda item
08:30Check-in Opens at Astor Film Lounge
09:15Conference Start & Organizational Infos
09:30Conceptual models, video games, and Google exploits
Mark Williams-Cook
Coffee Break
10:30JavaScript Performance Optimization Primer
Martin Splitt
Coffee Break
11:30How to run SEO A/B testing for large websites
Gus Pelogia
12:15Lunch & Networking
13:15Workflow automation for the productively lazy
Roxana Stingu
Coffee Break
14:15What to do if Google doesn’t stop crawling?
Dan Taylor
Coffee Break
15:30Demystifying Organic Product Grids
Pascal Landau
Coffee Break
16:30Tech Tip Competition
17:30Conference End
Location Change to Networking Event Location
18:00Networking Event & Reception at the Rickmer Rickmers
Dinner Buffet & Drinks
23:00End of Event

All times are posted in CET. We will have a 15min break for refreshments and some networking between each session.