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🎟️ WTSFest 2026 tickets on sale for London, Portland, & Philadelphia
đź‘• WTSMerch now available
🎟️ WTSFest 2026 tickets on sale for London, Portland, & Philadelphia
Thursday, May 7th 2026
A full-day marketing and SEO conference, featuring 10 brilliant speakers across our 4 themes:
✔️ Analyse - State of the industry and analytical
✔️ Advance - Next level and future-proofing
✔️ Innovate - New technologies and emerging strategies
✔️ Empower - Career development and growth
Join us for our 2nd edition of WTSFest Portland!
Date & Time
Thursday, May 7th 2026
8am - 5pm (PDT) followed by networking event
Location
Jupiter NEXT - 900 E Burnside St Portland OR 97214
(See our Portland City guide)
Ticket includes
Access to the full-day conference, catering throughout the day and post-conference networking event
Please note
This event is open to women and people of marginalised genders as attendees only.
Sponsors exhibiting at the event may include people of all genders.
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Agenda
08:00 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
Opening Notes
ANALYSE
09:15 - 09:45
What actually works when using AI to analyze your marketing data? Learn how to prepare data for AI analysis, uncover patterns and opportunities, and build repeatable workflows—plus walk away with exact prompts and a dashboard you can use immediately with your own data.
09:45 - 10:15
Rankings are up, traffic is growing, conversions are climbing — so why does SEO still get overlooked? In this talk, Alyssa Corso shows how to turn rankings and traffic metrics into the language of revenue, market share, and customer acquisition cost. You’ll learn how to position SEO as a strategic growth driver and how to connect SEO KPIs to impactful business metrics.
10:15 - 10:45
Marketing is constantly evolving. Algorithms, tools, and buyer behavior shift faster than most teams can keep up. In this session, Raycheal shows how to build adaptable marketing systems that withstand change, improve over time, and scale sustainably beyond short-term trends.
10:45 - 11:30
Morning Break
ADVANCE
11:30 - 12:00
AI has transformed the way search works—shifting the rules for visibility and performance. This session dives into how search engines and answer engines interpret your content differently, what it takes to stand out in this evolving landscape, and how to future-proof your strategy. You’ll walk away ready to fine-tune your content engine for maximum discoverability, credibility, and speed.
12:00 - 12:30
If your marketing team is running at full speed but still falling behind, this one’s for you. Tess breaks down operations frameworks that show you how to design smarter processes, balance workloads, and create alignment that fuels growth, not burnout.
12:30 - 13:45
Lunch Break
INNOVATE
13:45 - 14:15
Visibility isn’t just being found; it’s being retrieved. Learn a practical framework to turn your site into a readable topic ecosystem for LLMs: map entities, structure content, and earn citations inside AI answers. Walk away with measurement ideas and a step-by-step playbook.
14:15 - 14:45
Few marketers incorporate SEO testing into their strategies, and yet SEO testing unlocks data-driven business cases that earn trust with stakeholders. Learn how to apply the same rigor that marketers do with A/B testing to the field of SEO. Find out how SEO is different from traditional A/B testing, how easy it is to implement on most sites, and how it can take your SEO game to the next level.
14:45 - 15:15
Branding is a defense against the erosion of customer trust. In the age when people cannot believe videos and images, and mediocre GenAI text misleads, bores, and “hallucinates,” adding humanity back into your brand is a proactive offense. Yes, even if your company forces you to use GenAI.
15:15 - 15:45
Afternoon Break
EMPOWER
15:45 - 16:15
SEO isn’t just a specialist skill—it’s a toolkit and launchpad for marketers to excel across product, content, and growth. Nicole shares how SEO skills fuel career moves, builds impactful thinking, and prepares you for leadership, empowering marketers to chart their own career path beyond any marketing discipline and beyond.
16:15 - 16:45
There is no career playbook without the story behind it. Jess helps people uncover what sets them apart, articulate their value with conviction, and use narrative as fuel for growth. You’ll learn how owning your story sharpens confidence, protects your boundaries, and drives what’s next.
16:45 - 17:00
Closing Notes
17:00 - 19:00
Post-Conference Networking Event
Become a Sponsor
We use our sponsorship fee to pay for our venue, suppliers, photographer, videographer, and logistics fees; and most importantly, we pay our speakers a speaker fee (as all conferences should).
Headline Sponsor
After Party Sponsor
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Exhibitors
Scholarship Sponsors
Hear from past attendees at #WTSFest on socials
"A welcoming, inclusive, and safe atmosphere that put me at ease as soon as I stepped into the venue. Thoughtful and insightful talks from people who really know their stuff. Funny, kind, and knowledgeable attendees"
- Lois Neville, Freelance SEO Copywriter on LinkedIn
"Crossed the continent for #WTSfest Berlin, and it was totally worth it 🔥🔥"
- Ebere Jonathan, Founder of Search Africon on LinkedIn
Check out our photo galleries from past conferences to get a feel for the vibe of a WTSFest day:
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