Search Evolution Summit

Some things only happen because the right people believe in them.

Search Evolution Summit 2026 was everything we hoped the second edition would be: great talks, real conversations, and an SEO community that keeps showing up for each other. None of it would have been possible without the partners who stood beside us and helped bring it to life.

To our Main Partner, Ahrefs : thank you for believing in us from the beginning.

To our Workshop Partners, seomonitor_app and SENS AI: thank you for helping shape the hands-on side of the summit.

To our Gold Partners, WhitePress® | SEO & Influencer Marketing , Collaborator , Rankscale , FlavoursHub, Stradale , Vibre Hotel : thank you for everything that made these days feel whole. You turned a schedule into an experience.

To our Silver Partner, cyberFolks.ro : thank you for backing the summit and the community behind it.

To our Bronze Partner, Wawsome : thank you for being part of this year's edition.

And to all our Media and Community Partners: thank you for helping spread the word and growing this community.

Every name here left a mark on this edition. From all of us at Search Evolution Summit, we're grateful. 🙌

The second edition of Search Evolution Summit is over, and we’re still smiling. 🙌

To everyone who joined us in Cluj-Napoca, the speakers who took the stage, the partners who made it happen, and the team behind the scenes: thank you. These two days were yours. You filled the room with laughter, ideas, and people we’re lucky to now call friends.

See you next year. 👀

Day 2 is up and running, and the first workshop just wrapped. 🛠️

Robert Niechciał from SensAI Academy kicked things off with AI Agents for SEO, and what a way to start: laptops open, questions flying, and a room full of people rethinking how much of their workflow they can hand to an agent.

Huge thanks to Robert for the practical, no-fluff approach, and to everyone who showed up ready to build instead of just watch.

And that is the second workshop done. 🛠️

Cosmin Negrescu from SEOmonitor ran The AI Visibility Sprint, walking the room through how to measure your brand in AI Search and then let your own AI build the plan from there.

Huge thanks to Cosmin for a session that mixed sharp strategy with real hands-on work, and to everyone who participated.

That brings the Advanced Workshops to a close for this edition, and what a way to send them off. 🙌

The learning is done, so tonight we celebrate it together at the Friday night party. See you on the dance floor. 🥳

And that is a wrap on the Local RO Panels. 🇷🇴

Here is a look back at what went down at Flavours Hub.

Cosmin Negrescu opened with the real data on who is winning in AI Search in Romania, and the numbers surprised more than a few people in the room.

Then Darius Mureșan showed us how to feed the machine and get brands mentioned inside AI-generated answers.

Regulation and compliance took the stage next, with George Onofrievici on how those forces are shaping the future of European digital.

Andrei Draga went bigger still, asking what the internet itself becomes as AI reshapes it.

After that, every Local RO speaker sat down together for a panel on AI Search in Romania.

Laura Văduva shared a practical playbook for website migrations that every SEO specialist will want to keep.

Loredana Chinole tackled something our industry rarely admits out loud: how to prevent burnout in the SEO industry.

Tudor Goicea closed the loop from click to customer, a reminder that traffic means little without the conversion behind it.

We wrapped with Roast Your Website by Mixtazure: real websites, live analysis on stage, and plenty of laughs and a few winces from the crowd.

Thank you to every speaker and every single person who filled this room today. This community is why SES exists in the first place. 🙌

The talks are done, so now we bring the same energy to the Friday night party.

What a first half. 🙌

The room has been buzzing all morning, and the energy from everyone here in Cluj-Napoca is what made it. Thank you for showing up and for the questions that kept the room alive.

The first half of Day 1 has been amazing, five talks deep and a lot to take in:

Myriam Jessier kicked us off with Multimodal Video Optimization.
Gianluca Fiorelli walked us through The Consensus → Information Gain Axis.
Luis Salazar Jurado showed how to grow a brand with Semantic SEO.
Dixon Jones dug into what AI knows about your brand, and what you can do about it.
Roxana Stingu reminded us why once a search engine, always a search engine.

Then all five took your questions in the first Q&A.

Happy to see so many familiar faces this morning, and a lot of new ones too. 🔥

More to come after the break. 👀

And that’s a wrap on Day 1. 🙌

The energy held all the way to the last talk. Thank you to everyone who stayed in the room, asked the sharp questions, and made today what it was.

Here’s how the second half went:

Bengü Sarıca Dinçer opened it with Multi-Platform Search Ecosystem: When “Everywhere” Still Isn’t Enough.
Michał Suski asked who is fooling you in the AI SEO industry, backed by 365 days of research.
Andrei Țiț took us through The 5 Stages of SEO Grief, and how to measure AI Search.
Mark Williams-Cook told us not to think like a robot, SEO decision making for humans.
Alex Galinos closed the day with The Death of Traffic: Building Revenue-Focused SEO in a Zero-Click World.

Then all five took your questions in the second Q&A.

Thank you everyone for this edition! ✨

Day 2 is next: Advanced Workshops and the Local RO Panel. See you there. 👀

Cum arată SEO și AI Search în România?

Vineri, 4 septembrie, urcă pe scenă șapte speakeri români care cunosc bine piața locală. Găsești și un panel despre AI Search în România, iar ziua se încheie cu Roast Your Website by Mixtazure, unde îți poți înscrie site-ul pentru o analiză live.

Mai avem câteva bilete disponibile. Ne vedem curând! ✨