You can pitch via this link, it'll work for both brightonSEO & Hero Conf in both the UK and San Diego brightonseo.com/speaker-pitch

If someone in your team or network has a brilliant idea but might need a nudge, tag them below.

Let’s make 2026 line-ups as diverse, tactical, and full of “aha!” moments as they’ve ever been.

Both first-time speakers and seasoned pros are welcome.

We offer speaker coaching, feedback, and a audience that really wants to learn.

If you’ve got a fresh, specific, and practical idea, we’d love to see it.

We don’t care about job titles, logos on your client page, or how many other events you’ve spoken at; all we care about is ideas that make our community smarter.

💰 Paid Media (beyond Google) – Deep-dive, advanced sessions on Amazon Ads, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, or anything else paid-media people actually use. Think “level-up” talks for practitioners, not intro guides.

📣 Digital PR – Less “PR is important”, more “here’s the exact outreach process, pitch templates, and creative tactics that got links and made us appear in LLMs”. We want decks that generate sheets of to-dos.

Here are a few gaps in our current pitches 👇

🔧 Technical SEO - Properly technical. The more niche and specific, the better. We love the weird edge-cases: crawl budget, log files, JS rendering quirks, canonicals on massive sites, that sort of thing. Nothing is too esoteric.

That topic’s been pitched about a thousand times already (and yes, it’s interesting, but we’ve got it well covered).

What we’d really love more of are talks that get properly in the weeds - the kind people scribble notes from and go back to their teams saying “We need to try this next week.”

It also seemed like what Fab wanted to do with the line breaking passing and counter pressing worked better than recent matches

Not a bad shift

Though Gómez has been lively

Would you like me to include a new deck missed from this list? Send it my way here, leave the URL in the comments.

This will be sent tomorrow in tomorrow's #SEOFOMO 🙌

PS: Thanks to Jeroen Stikkelorum from SEO Brein for his help in putting this list together! You rock 💪