Learn from people actually doing it.

Terry Samuels

Host & Founder · Salterra

The founder of SEOST and Salterra, Terry built the conference he always wanted to attend — practitioners sharing what’s actually working, with zero pay-to-play. Expect real accounts, real numbers, and a room that feels more like a community than a trade show.

Elisabeth Samuels

Host & Community · Salterra

Co-founder of Salterra and the force behind the SEOST experience, Elisabeth makes sure every attendee leaves with new relationships, not just notes. She curates the community, the hallway moments, and the energy that keeps people coming back year after year.

Clint Butler

Founder · Digitaleer

Founder of Digitaleer, Clint is known for cutting through SEO noise with technical audits and fixes that move rankings — especially now that AI is reshaping the SERP. On stage he runs real teardowns, not theory, and shows exactly what he’d change.

Brian Kato

Founder · Fusion Vine

Founder of Fusion Vine, Brian works at the intersection of SEO and growth, helping agencies and brands turn traffic into revenue. He brings a practitioner’s view of what’s ranking and converting right now — and what to stop wasting time on.

Andrew Ainsley

Founder · MCPScraper / Thorbit

Founder of MCPScraper and Thorbit, Andrew builds the AI tools and automations quietly doing real agency work. He’ll show you how to put agents and workflows to work in your own shop, with hands-on examples you can copy.

Arielle Cohen

Co-Founder · Marketing 411

Co-founder of Marketing 411, Arielle helps brands scale content and social without a giant team. She focuses on repeatable systems that compound — the kind that keep working long after a single campaign ends.

Monique Rice

VP Sales & Marketing · EWS

As VP of Sales & Marketing at EWS, Monique lives where marketing meets revenue. She shares how to align the two so campaigns actually close deals, not just generate clicks and vanity metrics.

Blair Witkowski

Founder · Garage Door SEO Experts

Founder of Garage Door SEO Experts, Blair has built a niche-dominating local SEO practice. He breaks down local rankings, Google Business Profile, and the review systems that win the map pack in competitive service markets.

Gregory Ortiz

Founder · Digital Rooftop

Founder of Digital Rooftop, Gregory focuses on web and conversion — turning traffic into booked calls and closed deals. Expect practical CRO plays and page structures you can ship the same week.

Jason Jackson

Founder · Locafy

Founder of Locafy, Jason specializes in local search at scale. He shares the strategies that help service brands own their markets across maps and organic — even against much bigger competitors.

Rabih Rizk

Founder · Sonic 777

Founder of Sonic 777, Rabih builds AI-driven search and automation systems. He’ll cover getting cited by AI Overviews and the new answer engines, and what that shift means for your traffic and your funnel.

Brian Winum

Digital Marketing Director · MAXPlaces

Digital Marketing Director at MAXPlaces, Brian runs paid media that prints. He shares the account structures, creative testing and budget discipline that scale spend profitably instead of just burning it.

Josh Beechraft

Founder · Click Search Solutions

Founder of Click Search Solutions, Josh focuses on analytics and attribution that survive a cookieless, AI-mediated world. He helps you measure what actually drives revenue — and ignore what doesn’t.

Eldar Cohen

Owner & Founder · Local Dominator

Owner and founder of Local Dominator, Eldar teaches service businesses how to own their local market, Google Business Profile, the map pack, and the review systems that win the 3-pack in competitive cities. Expect hands-on local plays you can run the same week.

Craig Ramsay

Owner & Founder · Shake Digital

Owner and founder of Shake Digital, Craig helps brands turn digital marketing into measurable growth. Expect practical, do-it-Monday tactics drawn from real client work.

Marie Ysais

Owner & Founder · Ysais Digital Marketing

Owner and founder of Ysais Digital Marketing, Marie is an SEO specialist focused on technical, results-driven search campaigns. She brings hands-on, in-the-trenches expertise to the SEOST DMC stage.

Michael Merlino

Owner & Founder · Merlino Marketing

Owner and founder of Merlino Marketing, Michael helps businesses grow with hands-on digital marketing and SEO. Expect practical, real-world tactics you can put to work right away.

Bradley Benner

Owner & Founder · Semantic Mastery

At Semantic Mastery, Bradley has spent years helping agencies and local businesses win in search with repeatable, battle-tested SEO systems. Expect straight-talking, do-it-Monday tactics for ranking and Google Business Profile.

Marty Marion

Owner & Founder · Master Positioning

Owner and founder of Master Positioning, Marty helps brands get crystal-clear on what makes them the obvious choice. Expect a repeatable framework for positioning and messaging that makes everything downstream, ads, content and sales, land harder.

Jose Ponce Jr

Owner & Founder · BrightBlitz

Owner and founder of BrightBlitz, Jose helps businesses turn search and digital marketing into real, measurable growth. Expect practical, do-it-this-week tactics you can put straight to work.

Chad Lawson

Owner & Founder · Snappy SEO Tools

Owner and founder of Snappy SEO Tools, Chad builds software that takes the grunt work out of SEO. Expect tool-driven workflows and shortcuts you can put to work the same week.

Cory Hubbell

Owner & Founder · Entity Clouds

Owner and founder of Entity Clouds, Cory works at the edge of entity SEO and the knowledge graph. Expect a clear, repeatable way to build the topical authority search engines actually trust.

Randy Rohde

Owner & Founder · 38 Digital Market

Owner and founder of 38 Digital Market, Randy helps local businesses win with SEO, digital PR and marketing that compounds. Expect a grounded, results-first playbook you can run in your own market.

Dan Kurtz

Founder · Miss Pepper AI

Founder of Miss Pepper AI, Dan builds AI systems that actually run marketing, organic content engineered to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews, not just prompts in a doc. Expect a straight-talking look at turning AI from a novelty into a traffic-and-pipeline engine.