Last Tuesday, 7 October 2008, I attended Search Engine Room in Sydney. I was one of the speakers and here is the full list.
- Justin Baird, Product Specialist, Google
- Sandeep Baruah, Group Manager – Online and Search & Directories, Sensis
- Grace Chu, Managing Director, FirstClick
- Chris Dimmock, Founder, Cogentis
- Foad Fadaghi, Technology Editor, BRW
- Chris Garner, Online Strategic Marketing Consultant, dgm
- Tom Petryshen, CEO, Amplify
- Cheryl Gledhill, Co-Founder, Molt:n Digital
- Scott Gledhill, Co-Founder, Molt:n Digital
- Frank Grasso, CEO, e-Channel
- David Hawking, Chief Scientist, Funnelback
- Rod Jacka, Managing Director, Panalysis
- Michael Walmsley, GM – Competitive Intelligence and Search Marketing, Hitwise
- Ash Nallawalla, Traffic Manager, Online Search & Directories, Sensis
- Gary Ng, Director, E-Web Marketing
- Jon Ostler, Founder, First Rate
- Darren Rowse, ProBlogger
- Marcelo Silva, General Manager, Outrider Australia
- Jonathan Sinton, Strategy Director, Research International
- Yury Shar, Director, Hotels Combined
- Jim Stewart, Director, StewArtMedia.biz
- Nathan Stewart, CEO, Alkemi
- Chris Thomas, General Manager, Reseo.com
- Lesley White, Head of Digital, Network PR
- Susan Zabeti, Director, GroupM Search Australia
My presentation covered the challenges of corporate SEOs. The slide pack should be online at the SER website soon, but in brief I mentioned that large sites have many stakeholders and seemingly “obvious” SEO tactics cannot be executed in a short time-span. Here are my photographs from the event on Flickr.