Call for Speakers
Do you want to nerd out in front of an experienced audience?
Then the Tech SEO Summit is the right place for you! Our technical SEO conference is going deeper and offers more in-depth insights than many other “advanced” events. If you dislike 20min talks, that merely leave time for hello and goodbye, you will enjoy the summit. The international audience consists of experienced technical SEOs and developers with many years of experience. The Tech SEO Summit is a small but highly specialized conference focusing on technical SEO, web performance, and tech related strategy. The conference is a focused single-track experience.
The characteristics of a summit talk
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English language
All talks and communication during the summit is in English. -
45 minutes
Speakers have plenty of time to discuss in-depth topics. -
Tech related
All talks must provide enough technical depths for experienced technical SEOs. -
Business impact or shaping strategy
A technical talk must discuss the impact an optimization will or could have. Else it's just art. -
No basics
Since it's an experienced audience, talks should skip all boring basics and go into deep dive mode right away.
We value our speakers and their time!
Disclosure: We believe the hard work a speaker puts into a professional presentation should at least be somewhat compensated. We will pay all our speakers between 1.000–2.000 Euro (depending on the distance they have to travel) for travel/accommodation/effort. If a speaker can't accept or invoice the money due to company policy, we will donate it to a good cause.
What kind of talks are we looking for?
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Case studies
Needs to be based on a real-world example and should focus on 1-3 in-depth topics. Don't focus on 10 different things, as you'll lack depth. Use cases must solve an actionable issue that has business value. -
Research topics
You discovered a new approach or analyzed a relevant leak? Discuss with our smart audience. Research does not need a final result "yet“, but needs to discuss directions for a later business case behind the approach. If you can't prove the best approach with data, this needs to showcase different models and discuss what the choice is based on. Because "i say so" or "hearsay" is not science. -
In-depth optimization
Teach the audience how to 100% one specific technical SEO topic. Can be in-depth and monothematic - teach the audience everything you know about a single topic. Needs to include discussion about the business value to allocate resources to this. -
Actionable optimization
Every talk should leave the experienced audience with very specific ideas about which technical topics and changes to discuss with engineers or developers on the next day. -
Enterprise fit
All topics and examples must be applicable to large websites with millions of pages. If your case only works for a website with a few thousand pages, it's not relevant for the summit.
What kind of talks are NOT a good fit?
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AI workflow for already solved problems
If your “new” AI workflow replaces established workflows or analyses for already solved problems it must demonstrate tangible, concrete benefits. Many pitched talks in this direction can’t show a direct improvement and just use AI because it’s possible. If it only makes the workflow more expensive and complex it does not make any sense. Sorry. -
Rank tracking or AI visibility
Either those are not technically focused enough for our audience or rely heavily on 3rd party data that is not part of the technical SEO job description to collect. How to track “something” usually is not enough for an in-depth 45min technical talk. -
How to get cited in AI systems
Most of the talks pitched in this category do not have the technical depth we are looking for at the summit and fall more into the “content” or “link building” categories. We want technical talks. -
Software & tool pitches
Presentations that serve primarily as a demo or marketing pitch for a specific commercial SEO tool, SaaS platform, or proprietary AI wrapper. -
Generic frameworks
If you are proposing a strategic or workflow related framework, usually there are too many generic topics involved and are rather a bouquet of colorful variety than specific technical strategy. Please think twice if it’s really technical enough and focuses on improving server architecture, technical monitoring or such.
Apply as a speaker for the Tech SEO Summit
Fill out this form to give us an idea about you and the talk. If our nerdy tech summit sounds like your kind of event, we'd love to hear from you. You can pitch us not yet finished talk ideas and we will happily give you feedback if that could be a fit.
