Bay Area Search 2026

Bay Area Search is back.

Speakers include

Nickhil Nabar, Head of GTM Innovation, OpenAI

Wei Zheng, CEO, Conductor

Casey Winters, Co-founder and CEO, SuperMe

Silvia Oviedo López, Co-founder and CEO, Blomma

Cassie Dell, Head of Organic Growth and AI Search, LinkedIn

Jarrett Weathersby, SEO Manager

Denis Yevseyev, SEO Strategist, Uber

Pete Dainty, Sr Director, Search & AI Visibility, Apartment List

AJ Kohn, Founder, Blind Five Year Old

Thenuka Karunaratne, Founder and CEO, sunbeam & daydream

Jordan Koene, Co-founder and CEO, Previsible

Tyson Stockton, Co-founder and COO, Previsible

Elle Santos, Sr. Director of Content, Previsible

Tyler Einberger, Co-founder, Momentic & MKE DMC

Micah Fisher-Kirshner, founder of Bay Area Search (emcee)

Christina Ortega, CEO, Mission Bit (opening remarks)

With more to come.

For years, Bay Area Search was a fixture of the SF search scene, a regular gathering hosted at the offices of Google, Yelp, LinkedIn, and others, where the people shaping search came together to trade ideas. Then it went quiet.

On November 17, we’re bringing it back as a full day in the Mission.

Join search’s hometown crowd for a day of learning, connection, and candid conversation about where search and AI discovery are headed. Around 100–150 SEO and search practitioners, growth and marketing leaders, and founders, from startups to the biggest brands, will be in the room.

Agenda

8:30 AM · Doors open: breakfast, coffee & networking (coffee courtesy of Nozzle)

9:15 AM · Welcome, kickoff & opening remarks from Mission Bit

9:45 AM · Keynote: Silvia Oviedo López, Blomma

10:30 AM · Break & networking

10:45 AM · In-house panel: AI Search at Big Brands: What’s Real, What’s Hype, with LinkedIn, Uber & Apartment List, moderated by Tyson Stockton

11:45 AM · Lunch

1:00 PM · Keynote: Casey Winters, SuperMe

1:45 PM · Agency panel: How Brands Get Found and Recommended in AI Search, with Blind Five Year Old, Previsible and daydream, moderated by Tyler Einberger

2:45 PM · Break & networking

3:00 PM · Closing fireside chat: Nickhil Nabar (OpenAI) and Wei Zheng (Conductor) with Jordan Koene

3:40 PM · Closing remarks

4:00 PM · Happy hour (sponsored by sunbeam)

Times are approximate.

What to expect

Real talk on how AI is reshaping search, from practitioners living it

Two keynotes, two panels and a closing fireside chat

Plenty of time between sessions for real conversation

Breakfast, lunch, and a closing happy hour, all included

Why $25?

100% of every ticket goes to Mission Bit, a San Francisco nonprofit providing free computer science and AI education to over 2,700 public high school students each year, with courses spanning Python, web design, AI, game design, and VR.

Save your seat before we sell out.