Top 20 AEO Conferences in 2026 & 2027
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), LLM SEO, AI SEO - the labels are still being tossed around everywhere, but the premise is simple: brands, products, and services need to show up on AI search results.
As the world shifts away from blue links, snippets, and rankings, marketing teams are forced to understand entity clarity, source selection, citation behavior, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and the way agents summarize brands. Why? Well, it matters because it is how buyers get information about anything before they even reach your website.
We researched near and far across 100+ websites to build the ultimate list of conferences for the remainder of 2026 and 2027 that marketers, SEO leaders, founders, agencies, and brands can attend to learn more AEO and "SEO for AI" and connect with other leaders. While some are dedicated solely to AEO/GEO, others are broader SEO with an emphasis on AI marketing since there is strong overlap for teams responsible for discoverability in AI search.
Be sure to bookmark this page because we'll continue to update it, especially as new conferences in 2027 emerge.
Without further ado, here are the top 20 AEO conferences to have on your radar.
#1: GEO Conference New York - "The in-the-room-only event for AI search"
Date: December 4, 2026
Location: Quorum, 1221 Avenue of the Americas (2nd Floor), New York, NY 10020
Best for: large enterprise brands, search leaders, founders, and enterprise marketers who want a focused & "firehose session" of information about AEO and GEO
The Official Generative Engine Optimization Conference New York City is one of the most directly relevant events on this list. The event defines GEO as SEO for AI, specifically the work of helping brands show up accurately in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI search. The organizers also explicitly connect GEO with AEO, LLM SEO, AIO, and AI SEO.
The New York edition is a one-day, in-person event capped at 150 seats. That small-room format matters. AEO is still an emerging discipline, so the highest-value conversations often happen between practitioners comparing what is actually working, not just listening to public-stage theory.
Why it belongs here: This is one of the clearest pure-play GEO/AEO conferences available in 2026, with a format built around practical AI search visibility.
#2: GEO Conference San Francisco - "Closest to the AI labs shaping search"
Date: December 9, 2026
Location: Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
Best for: Teams who want the West Coast version of the GEO Conference with strong proximity to AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic; as well as product, platform, and startup ecosystems.
The San Francisco edition of GEO Conference follows the same focused one-day model as New York: in person, 150 seats, and centered on how brands win visibility inside AI-generated answers.
For teams operating in SaaS, AI, developer tools, venture-backed startups, or enterprise technology, San Francisco may be the stronger fit. The event is positioned as a West Coast finale and is likely to draw people closer to the labs, tools, and companies reshaping AI discovery.
Why it belongs here: It is another direct GEO/AEO event, and the San Francisco market makes it especially relevant for AI-native companies and technical marketing teams.
#3: Masters of Search Conference
Date: October 22, 2026
Location: von Greifswald, Lilli-Henoch-Straße 10, Berlin, Germany
Best for: In-house growth and SEO leads, heads of marketing at B2B SaaS companies, and agency practitioners building AI search offerings who want a European room focused entirely on AEO and GEO.
Masters of Search is a one-day, English-language AI search conference in Berlin, capped at 175 seats and run on an application basis. It is the first edition, organized by Berlin-based organic growth agency Radyant in partnership with Peec AI and OMR Reviews.
The program is built around answer engine optimization end to end, rather than an AI track inside a general SEO agenda. Six keynotes cover what gets cited and what gets clicked in AI answers (Aleyda Solís, SEOFOMO and Orainti), running AEO as an operating model tied to pipeline (Jennifer Lapp, Brevo, previously HubSpot), AI search as a growth channel (Amir Bohnenkamp, Heyflow, with Niklas Buschner, Radyant), AEO in 2026 and which 2025 tactics stopped working (Malte Landwehr, Peec AI), moving a north star metric from traffic to citations (Marvin Müller, OMR Reviews), and preparing a website for agent browsing (Anita Kirkovska, Vellum). A panel with Peec AI, Brevo, Revolut and Radyant closes the main stage.
Four hands-on workshops run in parallel breakout rooms, capped at 30 people each: building and testing with Claude Code (Margus Veeber, Pipedrive), live query fan-out analysis (David Konitzny, Peec AI), AI visibility through YouTube (Yannick Reihs, Radyant), and automating AEO workflows (Anita Kirkovska, Vellum). The day also includes great food and drinks and lots of networking opportunities.
Tickets: Regular €499 plus VAT. VIP €999, which adds a seat at the speaker dinner on October 21 at LOVIS in Berlin.
Website: https://www.masters-of-search.com/conference
#4: Conductor C3 2026 - "Win AI Search at Scale"
Date: October 28, 2026
Location: Convene One Liberty Plaza, New York City
Best for: Enterprise SEO, content, and digital marketing teams moving from AEO experiments to operational workflows.
Disclaimer: Conductor is a company that sells AEO/AEO products or services.
Conductor's C3 2026 is explicitly framed around agentic AEO, AI search, and digital marketing. The stated theme is "Influence Engineered: Win AI Search at Scale," and the programming emphasizes moving from AEO experimentation into execution.
This makes C3 a strong fit for larger teams that already know AI search matters but need systems: workflows, intelligence, monitoring, content operations, and authority signals that can be managed across many pages, brands, markets, or business units.
Why it belongs here: C3 is one of the few major 2026 events using AEO directly in its positioning, and it is oriented toward the enterprise execution problem.
#5: Ahrefs Evolve 2026 - "AEO and modern search in practice"
Date: October 12-13, 2026
Location: San Diego
Best for: SEO and content teams that want tactical modern-search workflows from practitioners and tool builders.
Disclaimer: Ahrefs is a company that sells AEO/AEO products or services.
Ahrefs Evolve 2026 is positioned around AEO, SEO, AI marketing, and modern search. The event page highlights real workflows from high-performing teams and includes agenda topics such as GEO, AEO, LLMO, and AI SEO.
Ahrefs has long been close to the daily work of SEO practitioners, so Evolve is likely to be useful for teams that want to translate AI-search theory into research, content, measurement, and technical workflows. It is also a good option if you want an AEO conference that still keeps classic SEO fundamentals in view.
Why it belongs here: It combines a direct AEO/AI-search agenda with a practical SEO audience, making it one of the strongest operator-focused events on the list.
#6: GEO KnowHow - "Germany's first conference for Generative Engine Optimization"
Date: October 1, 2026, with workshops on September 30 or October 2
Location: Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
Best for: German-speaking and European teams building AI-search visibility skills.
GEO KnowHow describes itself as Germany's first conference for Generative Engine Optimization. The event focuses on helping brands become visible in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, while extending classic SEO into AI-assisted search systems.
This is a useful pick for European marketers who want AEO and GEO education in a regional context. The adjacent workshop dates also make it more hands-on than a single conference day alone.
Why it belongs here: It is one of the most specifically GEO-focused European events, and it helps make AEO more practical for teams operating in German-speaking markets.
#7: brightonSEO San Diego 2026 - "Search moves fast. Learn together. Stay ahead."
Date: September 15-16, 2026
Location: San Diego Convention Center
Best for: Search marketers who want a large, practical SEO event with AI Overviews, LLMs, technical SEO, content, and digital PR in the mix.
brightonSEO San Diego 2026 is not only an AEO conference, but it is one of the biggest search marketing gatherings on the calendar. The event page describes it as the world's largest search marketing conference and includes speakers from companies and organizations such as Microsoft, Ahrefs, Sterling Sky, Orbit Media Studios, and more.
For AEO teams, the value is breadth. AI search is changing technical SEO, content strategy, digital PR, topical authority, brand visibility, and analytics. A large search conference gives you the full ecosystem view, which is useful when your AEO work still has to connect back to traditional organic growth.
Why it belongs here: It is a major search event with clear AI-search relevance, and it is especially useful for teams that want AEO in the broader context of SEO.
#8: MozCon London 2026 - "SEO strategy, automation, and digital marketing advice"
Date: November 13, 2026
Location: Convene 22 Bishopsgate, London
Best for: SEO professionals and marketing teams who want a one-day London event from one of the best-known names in SEO.
MozCon 2026 is going on the road with events in New York and London; for this list, we are only including the London edition. Moz's official page lists the London event for November 13, 2026 at Convene 22 Bishopsgate.
MozCon is not positioned as a pure AEO event, but it remains relevant because AEO teams still need strong SEO fundamentals: data-driven decisions, technical clarity, content quality, authority, and automation. For UK and European teams, the London date is a practical option for staying close to search strategy as AI-driven discovery evolves.
Why it belongs here: AEO does not replace SEO; it builds on it. MozCon London is a strong fit for teams that want to strengthen the SEO base that AI visibility depends on.
#9: MAICON 2026 - "The AI conference for marketing and business leaders"
Date: October 13-15, 2026
Location: Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
Best for: Marketing leaders responsible for AI adoption, governance, content operations, analytics, and customer experience.
MAICON 2026 is broader than AEO, but it is highly relevant for leaders who own the AI transformation around marketing. The event focuses on how enterprise and mid-market teams implement AI across strategy, operations, content, analytics, and customer experience.
That matters because AEO is not just an SEO tactic. It often requires new content systems, executive buy-in, governance, tool evaluation, analytics changes, and cross-functional coordination. MAICON is a good fit if your AEO work is part of a broader AI roadmap.
Why it belongs here: It is one of the stronger AI-marketing events for leaders who need the organizational side of AEO, not only the search tactics.
#10: SERP Conf. Sofia 2027 - "SEO, e-commerce, and AI"
Date: March 24-25, 2027
Location: Inter Expo Center, Sofia
Best for: European SEO and e-commerce teams looking for practical AI and search content with English and Bulgarian translation.
SERP Conf. Sofia 2027 is an Eastern Europe conference focused on SEO, e-commerce, and AI. The event page emphasizes practical content, expert speakers, translation into Bulgarian and English, and a two-day format with AI Lab, masterclasses, and the main conference day.
For AEO teams, SERP Conf. is useful because AI search is not just a U.S. or U.K. problem. International brands need to understand how AI discovery, search behavior, content, and e-commerce visibility change across languages and regions.
Why it belongs here: It brings AI and SEO together for a regional European audience, with practical formats beyond standard talks.
#11: Chiang Mai SEO Conference 2026 - "Advanced SEO with a growing AI-search edge"
Date: November 9-13, 2026
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Best for: Advanced SEOs, affiliates, agency owners, and operators who want practical search knowledge and community.
Chiang Mai SEO Conference 2026 is a long-running operator-oriented SEO event. It is not branded as a pure AEO conference, but the 2026 program includes speakers and bios that explicitly reference GEO, LLM-driven search, and AI-platform visibility.
This makes it an interesting option for teams that learn best from practitioners. AEO will not be won by theory alone; it will be won by people testing how AI systems discover, cite, summarize, and convert demand. Chiang Mai SEO tends to attract that kind of hands-on search operator.
Why it belongs here: It is a strong advanced SEO event with visible AI-search and GEO overlap in the 2026 program.
#12: TSIA Technology & Services World 2026 - "The future of the AI customer lifecycle"
Date: October 19-21, 2026
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Best for: B2B technology, services, customer success, support, and go-to-market leaders thinking about AI across the full customer lifecycle.
TSIA Technology & Services World 2026 is not a conventional AEO conference. Its focus is the AI customer lifecycle: architecting AI-driven services, monetizing AI across the lifecycle, and building autonomous customer experience.
So why include it? Because AEO is increasingly tied to the complete buyer journey. AI agents and answer engines influence what buyers research before a sale, how they evaluate proof, and how they interact with support and success after purchase. For B2B companies, AEO teams will need to understand those lifecycle shifts, not just publish pages for AI crawlers.
Why it belongs here: It is the best adjacent event on this list for understanding how AI changes the customer lifecycle around search, proof, support, and services.
#13: SEOSummit.ai - "AI Search & LLM SEO in Istanbul"
Date: January 12, 2027 placeholder date; exact public dates are not yet shown
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Best for: AI-search teams, LLM SEO practitioners, agency owners, and marketers who want a conference built directly around AI search and Google AI Overviews.
SEOSummit.ai is positioned as an AI Search and LLM SEO conference in Istanbul for 2027. The official page describes the event as built around AI search, LLM SEO, and Google AI Overviews, with a four-day format and a 500-attendee cap.
Because the exact public dates are not shown yet, we are using January 12, 2027 as a temporary placeholder. The important thing is the category fit: this is one of the most explicitly AEO-adjacent conferences on the list.
Why it belongs here: It is centered on the same visibility problem AEO teams are solving: how brands show up in AI search, AI Overviews, and LLM-generated answers.
#14: Search SEOul 2026 - "International SEO across Western and Asian markets"
Date: September 1-4, 2026
Location: Naru Seoul MGallery Ambassador Hotel, Seoul, South Korea
Best for: International SEO teams, cross-border growth leaders, and marketers working across Asian and Western search markets.
Search SEOul 2026 calls itself South Korea's leading SEO conference, with two main conference days, 200+ attendees, 20+ global speakers, and programming around international SEO and cross-border growth.
This is especially relevant for AEO because AI answers are not one-size-fits-all. Language, market context, local authority, and regional source ecosystems all shape whether a brand gets surfaced, summarized, or cited.
Why it belongs here: It gives AEO and SEO teams a stronger view of Asia-Pacific search behavior, international SEO, and local-market translation.
#15: UK SEO Summit 2026 - "Practical SEO for the UK search landscape"
Date: August 26, 2026
Location: Felix Lane, Shepperton TW17 8NP, United Kingdom
Best for: UK search professionals, content strategists, technical SEOs, e-commerce marketers, and local SEO teams.
UK SEO Summit 2026 is built around practical SEO for the UK market, including on-page optimization, technical SEO, off-page authority, local search, and e-commerce performance.
The AEO connection is straightforward: AI visibility still depends on clean technical foundations, clear content architecture, authority signals, and market-specific search strategy. For UK-focused teams, this is a regional event worth tracking.
Why it belongs here: It helps teams strengthen the SEO fundamentals that AI engines and answer systems depend on.
#16: SEOktoberfest G50 Summit - "Invitation-only SEO operator room"
Date: 2026/2027 dates not yet posted; latest official page lists September 21-26, 2025
Location: Stanglwirt, Austria
Best for: Senior SEO operators and invited experts who want a small, high-signal room.
SEOktoberfest G50 Summit is an invitation-only SEO event. The current public page lists the 2025 edition at Stanglwirt, Austria, with 25 experts and 30 attendees, and marks it as sold out.
Even though the public page has not posted 2026 or 2027 dates yet, it belongs on this watchlist because senior search operators tend to surface the hard lessons early: what still works, what stopped working, and what AI search changes in practice.
Why it belongs here: It is a small-room, expert-heavy event for advanced SEO conversations, which makes it relevant for AEO teams watching where practitioner consensus moves next.
#17: Amaze Conference 2026 - "India's SEO & AI conference"
Date: December 10-12, 2026
Location: Hyatt Regency Chandigarh, India
Best for: Agency founders, SEO professionals, digital marketers, enterprise teams, and international founders watching India's search market.
Amaze Conference 2026 is positioned as a globally recognized SEO and AI conference, with 400+ attendees, 20+ speakers, 15+ countries represented, and a three-day format in Chandigarh.
Amaze is a strong add for teams that want AEO in the context of fast-growing international search markets. The conference explicitly connects SEO and AI, and its audience skews toward founders, CXOs, agencies, and operators who care about outcomes, not just theory.
Why it belongs here: It brings SEO, AI, agency growth, and international expansion together in one of the world's most important digital markets.
#18: Content Marketing World 2026 - "Insight to impact for content teams"
Date: Conference October 5-6, 2026; workshops October 7
Location: Denver
Best for: Content marketers, brand teams, SEO content leaders, and teams adapting content strategy for AI search and zero-click behavior.
Content Marketing World 2026 is broader than AEO, but it is highly relevant for teams responsible for the content layer of AI visibility. The event promises 100+ sessions and a 2026 theme of "Insight to Impact."
The official page also highlights sessions and themes around AI-assisted audience research, storytelling in the age of AI, and zero-click SEO for both AI and traditional search. That makes it useful for teams trying to make content more citeable, differentiated, and conversion-ready.
Why it belongs here: AEO depends on content quality, originality, and audience insight. Content Marketing World helps teams improve the source material AI systems may summarize.
#19: ADworld Experience 2026 - "Performance marketing, PPC, and CRO cases"
Date: October 15-16, 2026
Location: Bologna, Italy, or streaming
Best for: Paid search, PPC, CRO, e-commerce, and performance marketing teams who need the conversion side of discoverability.
ADworld Experience 2026 is the EU's largest all-PPC event. The 2026 edition is set for October 15-16 in Bologna or via streaming, with real PPC and CRO cases, advanced seminars, live clinics, and focus groups.
It is not an AEO conference in the narrow sense, but it is a useful adjacent event. As organic discovery gets compressed by AI answers and zero-click behavior, teams need to understand the paid search, landing page, tracking, and CRO systems that turn discoverability into revenue.
Why it belongs here: It gives AEO and SEO teams a stronger grasp of the paid and conversion systems around search visibility.
#20: Ahrefs Evolve Singapore 2027 - "AEO and modern search in APAC"
Date: May 12-13, 2027
Location: Singapore
Best for: APAC marketers, international SEO teams, and search leaders who want AEO and modern-search strategy in Singapore.
Disclaimer: Ahrefs is a company that sells AEO/AEO products or services.
Ahrefs Evolve Singapore 2027 is already positioned around AEO and modern search. The official page says the event will return to Singapore in 2027 and highlights how teams win in AEO and modern search.
This is a natural companion to Ahrefs Evolve San Diego. For companies selling into Asia-Pacific markets, the Singapore edition gives AEO teams a regional lens on brand discoverability, AI search, and modern marketing workflows.
Why it belongs here: It extends the AEO conversation into Singapore and APAC, with Ahrefs' practical search-operator lens.
How to choose the right AEO conference
If you only have budget for one event, choose based on your job-to-be-done:
- For pure AEO/GEO: Start with GEO Conference, Masters of Search, SEOSummit.ai, Conductor C3, GEO KnowHow, Ahrefs Evolve San Diego, or Ahrefs Evolve Singapore.
- For classic SEO plus AI search: Look at brightonSEO, MozCon London, Search SEOul, UK SEO Summit, SERP Conf., Chiang Mai SEO Conference, Amaze, or SEOktoberfest.
- For marketing leadership and AI adoption: MAICON and Content Marketing World are likely the better fit.
- For paid search, CRO, and revenue systems: ADworld Experience is a strong adjacent choice.
- For B2B customer lifecycle and AI services strategy: TSIA Technology & Services World is the strongest adjacent choice.
The best AEO conference for your team depends on whether you need strategy, workflows, technical SEO, content operations, brand authority, analytics, executive buy-in, or regional market context.
