Matt Van Wagner is President and founder of Find Me Faster a search engine marketing firm based in Nashua, NH. He is also a member of the programming team for SMX events. Matt is a seasoned sales and marketing professional specializing in paid and local search engine marketing strategies for small and medium-sized companies in the United States and Canada. An award-winning speaker whose presentations are usually as entertaining as they are informative, Matt has been a popular speaker at SMX and other search conferences. He is a member of SEMNE (Search Engine Marketing New England), and SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, He is member and contributing courseware developer for the SEMPO Institute. Matt occasionally writes on search engines and technology topics for IMedia, The NH Business Review and other publications, He also served as technical editor for Andrew Goodman's Winning Results with Google AdWords and Mona Elesseily's Yahoo! Search Marketing Handbook.

Shari Thurow has optimized, designed, and architected websites since 1995. She is outsourced to many firms worldwide. As a pioneer of search-engine friendly web design, she has a 100% success rate for getting client sites ranked at the top of search engines.

She currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the ASLIB Journal of Information Management. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Information Architecture Institute (IAI) and theUser Experience Professionals Organization (UXPA).

She is the co-author of When Search Meets Web Usability, which shows how to bridge the gap between a search-engine query and your website. She is also the author of Search Engine Visibility, which has been translated into French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Russian.

Her doctoral work is in Information Sciences with an emphasis on Human and Computer Interfaces (HCI), including search usability, interaction design, and searcher experience. Shari received her M.A. in Asian Studies/Japanese and B.A. in Genetics and Developmental Biology from University of Illinois.

Omni Marketing Interactive is a full-service search engine optimization (SEO), website usability, information architecture (IA), and UX design firm.

Clients include Huffington Post, Sony Music, ABC News, Home Depot, Fisher-Price, Microsoft, Encyclopedia Britannica, Angie’s List, the National Cancer Institute, Loyola Medicine, and WebMD.

Chris Sherman is VP of Event Editorial at Third Door Media and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. With over 25 years experience in interactive technologies, he is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today and other publications, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS and other television and radio networks.

Chris is a Web Search University faculty member, and is an honorary inductee of the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame. He is the author of "Google Power: Unleash the Full Power of Google" from McGraw-Hill. His previous books include "The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See" (with Gary Price) from CyberAge Books; The McGraw-Hill CD ROM Handbook, and "The Elements of Basic", "The Elements of Cobol" and "The Elements of Pascal" from John Wiley & Sons.

Chris has written about search and search engines since 1994. His clients have included International Data Corporation, Accenture, Motorola, Levi-Strauss, Nokia, Ortho Biotech, Porsche, United Technologies, and the Scripps Clinic. From 2001 through 2006, Chris was Executive Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com and Conference Chair of the international Search Engine Strategies events in Canada, China, France, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com.

Chris holds a master's degree in Interactive Educational Technology from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and Communications from the University of California, San Diego. Chris has been unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Stanford to strip his degree so he can join the founders of Yahoo and Google in boasting about *not* graduating from the university.

Frederic Dubut is a Senior Program Manager at Bing, currently in charge of the fight against web spam after spending five years at the helm of the crawl team. During that time, the team consolidated all the legacy Bing crawlers (web, images, etc) into a single platform, scaled up crawl traffic by an order of magnitude and shipped a slate of innovative features, including URL previews (screenshots) and the very first version of mobile indexing at Bing.

In between these two roles at Bing, Frederic oversaw the Xbox Analytics effort, delivering insights and data tools to internal and external game studios developing on the Xbox platform. In that position, he represented Xbox at several gaming industry events, including the last Gaming Analytics Summit in April 2017.

Chris Sherman is VP of Event Editorial at Third Door Media and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. With over 25 years experience in interactive technologies, he is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today and other publications, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS and other television and radio networks.

Chris is a Web Search University faculty member, and is an honorary inductee of the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame. He is the author of "Google Power: Unleash the Full Power of Google" from McGraw-Hill. His previous books include "The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See" (with Gary Price) from CyberAge Books; The McGraw-Hill CD ROM Handbook, and "The Elements of Basic", "The Elements of Cobol" and "The Elements of Pascal" from John Wiley & Sons.

Chris has written about search and search engines since 1994. His clients have included International Data Corporation, Accenture, Motorola, Levi-Strauss, Nokia, Ortho Biotech, Porsche, United Technologies, and the Scripps Clinic. From 2001 through 2006, Chris was Executive Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com and Conference Chair of the international Search Engine Strategies events in Canada, China, France, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com.

Chris holds a master's degree in Interactive Educational Technology from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and Communications from the University of California, San Diego. Chris has been unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Stanford to strip his degree so he can join the founders of Yahoo and Google in boasting about *not* graduating from the university.

Fili Wiese is a renowned technical SEO expert, ex-Google engineer and was a senior technical lead in the Google Search Quality team. At SearchBrothers.com he offers SEO consulting services with SEO audits, SEO workshops and successfully recovers websites from Google penalties.

Frederic Dubut is a Senior Program Manager at Bing, currently in charge of the fight against web spam after spending five years at the helm of the crawl team. During that time, the team consolidated all the legacy Bing crawlers (web, images, etc) into a single platform, scaled up crawl traffic by an order of magnitude and shipped a slate of innovative features, including URL previews (screenshots) and the very first version of mobile indexing at Bing.

In between these two roles at Bing, Frederic oversaw the Xbox Analytics effort, delivering insights and data tools to internal and external game studios developing on the Xbox platform. In that position, he represented Xbox at several gaming industry events, including the last Gaming Analytics Summit in April 2017.

Chris Sherman is VP of Event Editorial at Third Door Media and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. With over 25 years experience in interactive technologies, he is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today and other publications, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS and other television and radio networks.

Chris is a Web Search University faculty member, and is an honorary inductee of the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame. He is the author of "Google Power: Unleash the Full Power of Google" from McGraw-Hill. His previous books include "The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See" (with Gary Price) from CyberAge Books; The McGraw-Hill CD ROM Handbook, and "The Elements of Basic", "The Elements of Cobol" and "The Elements of Pascal" from John Wiley & Sons.

Chris has written about search and search engines since 1994. His clients have included International Data Corporation, Accenture, Motorola, Levi-Strauss, Nokia, Ortho Biotech, Porsche, United Technologies, and the Scripps Clinic. From 2001 through 2006, Chris was Executive Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com and Conference Chair of the international Search Engine Strategies events in Canada, China, France, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com.

Chris holds a master's degree in Interactive Educational Technology from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and Communications from the University of California, San Diego. Chris has been unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Stanford to strip his degree so he can join the founders of Yahoo and Google in boasting about *not* graduating from the university.

Frederic Dubut is a Senior Program Manager at Bing, currently in charge of the fight against web spam after spending five years at the helm of the crawl team. During that time, the team consolidated all the legacy Bing crawlers (web, images, etc) into a single platform, scaled up crawl traffic by an order of magnitude and shipped a slate of innovative features, including URL previews (screenshots) and the very first version of mobile indexing at Bing.

In between these two roles at Bing, Frederic oversaw the Xbox Analytics effort, delivering insights and data tools to internal and external game studios developing on the Xbox platform. In that position, he represented Xbox at several gaming industry events, including the last Gaming Analytics Summit in April 2017.

Chris Sherman is VP of Event Editorial at Third Door Media and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. With over 25 years experience in interactive technologies, he is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today and other publications, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS and other television and radio networks.

Chris is a Web Search University faculty member, and is an honorary inductee of the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame. He is the author of "Google Power: Unleash the Full Power of Google" from McGraw-Hill. His previous books include "The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See" (with Gary Price) from CyberAge Books; The McGraw-Hill CD ROM Handbook, and "The Elements of Basic", "The Elements of Cobol" and "The Elements of Pascal" from John Wiley & Sons.

Chris has written about search and search engines since 1994. His clients have included International Data Corporation, Accenture, Motorola, Levi-Strauss, Nokia, Ortho Biotech, Porsche, United Technologies, and the Scripps Clinic. From 2001 through 2006, Chris was Executive Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com and Conference Chair of the international Search Engine Strategies events in Canada, China, France, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com.

Chris holds a master's degree in Interactive Educational Technology from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and Communications from the University of California, San Diego. Chris has been unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Stanford to strip his degree so he can join the founders of Yahoo and Google in boasting about *not* graduating from the university.

Aleh Barysevich is a seasoned SEO expert, Founder and CMO at SEO PowerSuite, the company that makes professional software for full-cycle SEO campaigns. With about 20,000 active paid users today, SEO PowerSuite was launched in 2005. Over the 13 years Aleh has been the key figure in the company to determine the roadmap for the SEO PowerSuite development. Aleh and his team run ongoing in-house SEO research and SEO experiments to get first-hand understanding of what's really working in search today.

Frederic Dubut is a Senior Program Manager at Bing, currently in charge of the fight against web spam after spending five years at the helm of the crawl team. During that time, the team consolidated all the legacy Bing crawlers (web, images, etc) into a single platform, scaled up crawl traffic by an order of magnitude and shipped a slate of innovative features, including URL previews (screenshots) and the very first version of mobile indexing at Bing.

In between these two roles at Bing, Frederic oversaw the Xbox Analytics effort, delivering insights and data tools to internal and external game studios developing on the Xbox platform. In that position, he represented Xbox at several gaming industry events, including the last Gaming Analytics Summit in April 2017.

Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

Frederic Dubut is a Senior Program Manager at Bing, currently in charge of the fight against web spam after spending five years at the helm of the crawl team. During that time, the team consolidated all the legacy Bing crawlers (web, images, etc) into a single platform, scaled up crawl traffic by an order of magnitude and shipped a slate of innovative features, including URL previews (screenshots) and the very first version of mobile indexing at Bing.

In between these two roles at Bing, Frederic oversaw the Xbox Analytics effort, delivering insights and data tools to internal and external game studios developing on the Xbox platform. In that position, he represented Xbox at several gaming industry events, including the last Gaming Analytics Summit in April 2017.

Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

Frederic Dubut is a Senior Program Manager at Bing, currently in charge of the fight against web spam after spending five years at the helm of the crawl team. During that time, the team consolidated all the legacy Bing crawlers (web, images, etc) into a single platform, scaled up crawl traffic by an order of magnitude and shipped a slate of innovative features, including URL previews (screenshots) and the very first version of mobile indexing at Bing.

In between these two roles at Bing, Frederic oversaw the Xbox Analytics effort, delivering insights and data tools to internal and external game studios developing on the Xbox platform. In that position, he represented Xbox at several gaming industry events, including the last Gaming Analytics Summit in April 2017.

Frederic Dubut is a Senior Program Manager at Bing, currently in charge of the fight against web spam after spending five years at the helm of the crawl team. During that time, the team consolidated all the legacy Bing crawlers (web, images, etc) into a single platform, scaled up crawl traffic by an order of magnitude and shipped a slate of innovative features, including URL previews (screenshots) and the very first version of mobile indexing at Bing.

In between these two roles at Bing, Frederic oversaw the Xbox Analytics effort, delivering insights and data tools to internal and external game studios developing on the Xbox platform. In that position, he represented Xbox at several gaming industry events, including the last Gaming Analytics Summit in April 2017.

Chris Sherman is VP of Event Editorial at Third Door Media and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. With over 25 years experience in interactive technologies, he is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today and other publications, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS and other television and radio networks.

Chris is a Web Search University faculty member, and is an honorary inductee of the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame. He is the author of "Google Power: Unleash the Full Power of Google" from McGraw-Hill. His previous books include "The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See" (with Gary Price) from CyberAge Books; The McGraw-Hill CD ROM Handbook, and "The Elements of Basic", "The Elements of Cobol" and "The Elements of Pascal" from John Wiley & Sons.

Chris has written about search and search engines since 1994. His clients have included International Data Corporation, Accenture, Motorola, Levi-Strauss, Nokia, Ortho Biotech, Porsche, United Technologies, and the Scripps Clinic. From 2001 through 2006, Chris was Executive Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com and Conference Chair of the international Search Engine Strategies events in Canada, China, France, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com.

Chris holds a master's degree in Interactive Educational Technology from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and Communications from the University of California, San Diego. Chris has been unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Stanford to strip his degree so he can join the founders of Yahoo and Google in boasting about *not* graduating from the university.

Taylor currently leads the SEO team at Conde Nast, which is a premier media company renowned for producing the highest quality content for the world's most influential audiences. Taylor helps lead the SEO strategy across 18 brand websites like Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired and others that span across verticals like fashion, food, lifestyle & health.

With over 8 years of experience, Taylor has SEO'd her way through other publishing websites like Martha Stewart and Martha Stewart Weddings, as well as having experience supporting luxury e-commerce sites and experiences at an agency where she got her start.

In 2017, the Condé Nast SEO team were nominated for the Search Engine Land awards and US Search Awards for Best In-House SEO team.

Frederic Dubut is a Senior Program Manager at Bing, currently in charge of the fight against web spam after spending five years at the helm of the crawl team. During that time, the team consolidated all the legacy Bing crawlers (web, images, etc) into a single platform, scaled up crawl traffic by an order of magnitude and shipped a slate of innovative features, including URL previews (screenshots) and the very first version of mobile indexing at Bing.

In between these two roles at Bing, Frederic oversaw the Xbox Analytics effort, delivering insights and data tools to internal and external game studios developing on the Xbox platform. In that position, he represented Xbox at several gaming industry events, including the last Gaming Analytics Summit in April 2017.

Chris Sherman is VP of Event Editorial at Third Door Media and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. With over 25 years experience in interactive technologies, he is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today and other publications, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS and other television and radio networks.

Chris is a Web Search University faculty member, and is an honorary inductee of the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame. He is the author of "Google Power: Unleash the Full Power of Google" from McGraw-Hill. His previous books include "The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See" (with Gary Price) from CyberAge Books; The McGraw-Hill CD ROM Handbook, and "The Elements of Basic", "The Elements of Cobol" and "The Elements of Pascal" from John Wiley & Sons.

Chris has written about search and search engines since 1994. His clients have included International Data Corporation, Accenture, Motorola, Levi-Strauss, Nokia, Ortho Biotech, Porsche, United Technologies, and the Scripps Clinic. From 2001 through 2006, Chris was Executive Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com and Conference Chair of the international Search Engine Strategies events in Canada, China, France, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com.

Chris holds a master's degree in Interactive Educational Technology from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and Communications from the University of California, San Diego. Chris has been unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Stanford to strip his degree so he can join the founders of Yahoo and Google in boasting about *not* graduating from the university.

Hannah is Head of SEO Strategy at Found, and works with clients to produce multi-platform campaigns through every stage from ideation through to completion. Hannah's role covers everything from leading complex technical strategies, to creating innovative content campaigns and harnessing data to drive results. With experience speaking at multiple conferences, including BrightonSEO, Search London and SEONow and a regular blogging slot on State of Digital, Hannah is always happy to share tips and debate the controversies of the latest changes in technical SEO best practice.

Arsen Rabinovich is the founder of TopHatRank.com LLC, a Los Angeles-based, Search and Social Marketing Agency that specializes in innovative digital marketing techniques for modern brands of all sizes.

In late 2008 Arsen started off as an SEO consultant, hired his first employee in 2009 and formed TopHatRank.com LLC in August of 2010.

The company is now ten people strong with offices in Sherman Oaks and provides services to over 30 clients within a variety of verticals including eCommerce, medical technology, financial services, social networking, local small business, music and entertainment, and technology startups.

Arsen was born in Odessa, Ukraine and immigrated to the US with his family in 1991 at the age of 10. He is a self-proclaimed SEO junkie with a passion for food, animals, science, technology and everything that has to do with digital marketing.

Chris Sherman is VP of Event Editorial at Third Door Media and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. With over 25 years experience in interactive technologies, he is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today and other publications, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS and other television and radio networks.

Chris is a Web Search University faculty member, and is an honorary inductee of the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame. He is the author of "Google Power: Unleash the Full Power of Google" from McGraw-Hill. His previous books include "The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See" (with Gary Price) from CyberAge Books; The McGraw-Hill CD ROM Handbook, and "The Elements of Basic", "The Elements of Cobol" and "The Elements of Pascal" from John Wiley & Sons.

Chris has written about search and search engines since 1994. His clients have included International Data Corporation, Accenture, Motorola, Levi-Strauss, Nokia, Ortho Biotech, Porsche, United Technologies, and the Scripps Clinic. From 2001 through 2006, Chris was Executive Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com and Conference Chair of the international Search Engine Strategies events in Canada, China, France, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com.

Chris holds a master's degree in Interactive Educational Technology from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and Communications from the University of California, San Diego. Chris has been unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Stanford to strip his degree so he can join the founders of Yahoo and Google in boasting about *not* graduating from the university.

Naomi Makofsky works on Global Product Partnerships for the Google Assistant. Her focus is on launching new platform capabilities, helping developers with discovery and reengagement, and delivering great user experiences. Naomi studied Organizational Studies and Psychology at the University of Michigan. She currently resides in NYC.

Arsen Rabinovich is the founder of TopHatRank.com LLC, a Los Angeles-based, Search and Social Marketing Agency that specializes in innovative digital marketing techniques for modern brands of all sizes.

In late 2008 Arsen started off as an SEO consultant, hired his first employee in 2009 and formed TopHatRank.com LLC in August of 2010.

The company is now ten people strong with offices in Sherman Oaks and provides services to over 30 clients within a variety of verticals including eCommerce, medical technology, financial services, social networking, local small business, music and entertainment, and technology startups.

Arsen was born in Odessa, Ukraine and immigrated to the US with his family in 1991 at the age of 10. He is a self-proclaimed SEO junkie with a passion for food, animals, science, technology and everything that has to do with digital marketing.

Alli Brenner has 8 years of high-end, strategic SEO experience encompassing in-house, agency and creative quality content creation. Clients include fortune 500 companies, e-commerce websites to local businesses. Verticals of SEO expertise include technology, education, automotive and finance. She graduated from Georgia Southern University with a B.S. in Journalism.

Away from work, Alli enjoys going to Atlanta Braves games, playing with her dog, and spending time with her fiancé.

Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

Named by PPC Hero as the #1 most influential PPC Expert in the world, Purna specializes in SEM, SEO and future search trends. With over a decade in search, she is a regular keynote speaker at conferences across the globe such as MozCon and Hero Conf and is a columnist for Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch.

An award-winning former journalist, Purna was the CEO of Purview Marketing prior to joining the Bing Ads team. In her spare time, she’s an avid traveler, aspiring top chef and amateur knitter. Say hello @purnavirji

Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land, a member of the programming team for SMX events and the VP, Market Insights at Uberall.

Chris Silver Smith is founder of Argent Media, a search marketing consultancy located in Dallas, Texas, and has a long history in search engine optimization, online reputation management, internet technology, expert witness consulting and internet marketing. He has worked for some of the top agencies in the field of SEO, researching and developing search optimization and social media marketing techniques, and providing online strategy for Fortune 500 and Internet Retailer 500 companies.

Chris also previously worked at Verizon Superpages.com for a decade, and served as head of their technology department. His work there included R&D, local search engine development, UI & UX design, map-based search interfaces, mobile apps, and more. Chris was awarded the Individual Excellence Award by Verizon in 2004 for his SEO projects, and he also has two patents awarded for local search technologies.

Chris regularly contributes articles to Search Engine Land, Marketing Land, and the [Ag] Search Blog. Chris currently serves on the Board of Advisors for Universal Business Listing (UBL), and Thomas-Reuters FindLaw's SEO Advisory Board.

Chris Sherman is VP of Event Editorial at Third Door Media and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. With over 25 years experience in interactive technologies, he is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today and other publications, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS and other television and radio networks.

Chris is a Web Search University faculty member, and is an honorary inductee of the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame. He is the author of "Google Power: Unleash the Full Power of Google" from McGraw-Hill. His previous books include "The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See" (with Gary Price) from CyberAge Books; The McGraw-Hill CD ROM Handbook, and "The Elements of Basic", "The Elements of Cobol" and "The Elements of Pascal" from John Wiley & Sons.

Chris has written about search and search engines since 1994. His clients have included International Data Corporation, Accenture, Motorola, Levi-Strauss, Nokia, Ortho Biotech, Porsche, United Technologies, and the Scripps Clinic. From 2001 through 2006, Chris was Executive Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com and Conference Chair of the international Search Engine Strategies events in Canada, China, France, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com.

Chris holds a master's degree in Interactive Educational Technology from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and Communications from the University of California, San Diego. Chris has been unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Stanford to strip his degree so he can join the founders of Yahoo and Google in boasting about *not* graduating from the university.

John Shehata is Vice President of Audience Development Strategy at Condé Nast overseeing SEO, Social Media Strategy, Email Operations & Strategy and Organic Partnerships for 18 premium brands (Wired, Epicurious, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, etc.). John has 17+ years of experience in the digital marketing space working with top national brands and fortune 500 companies.

Previously, John was the Executive Director of Search, Social Media at Disney ABC TV Group. Shehata lead SEO and social strategies for (ABC News, ABC TV, Oscars, and Disney Channels) and worked closely with all TV shows (GMA, Nightline, 20/20, World News, etc.).

In his long career focusing on editorial SEO and Social Strategy, John has trained many writers, bloggers, journalists and editors on Search Engine Optimization and Social Media and how to write news while keeping Search and Social channels top of mind.

Prior to Disney, Shehata was the director of SEO and Social Media for Advance Local. Shehata established and led the SEO and Social Media teams for all their digital brands (NJ.com. al.com, Cleveland.com, MLive.com, NOLA.com, etc.) and trained all the news sites and newspapers edit teams (The Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, The Oregonian, etc) on best online search/social practices.

Shehata is recognized particularly for his SEO strategies for News and Technical SEO. He built multiple SEO products and has written several articles and continues to speak at conferences which focus on SEO and Social Media.

Mellissa Jensen is an 18-year search marketing veteran, specializing in global enterprise search strategies. She currently serves as the Marketing Manager for Content and SEO at Cisco Systems where she is developing comprehensive content strategies based on business objectives and user needs leveraging insights derived from Intent Modeling. In her previous role as VP of SEO at Global Strategies, a division of Ogilvy, she lead the Technical SEO practice and served as the company’s thought leader often presenting at industry conferences.

Mellissa has worked with some of the most recognizable companies including Intel, Thomson Reuters, DuPont, and Adobe. Working with these complex organizations provided the opportunity to master scaled SEO localization strategies across global enterprise sites leveraging technology, automation, workflows, and training to maximize efficiency across GEOs while providing search engines the strongest local signals.

When she is not researching and testing the latest evolution of search you can find Mellissa on the trails in Bend, Oregon running with her golden retriever Barkley, paddle boarding down the Deschutes River, or just hanging out on the porch with a glass of Four Roses watching the sunset with her husband Andre.