Community of African network engineers, policymakers and academics that jointly organises the annual Africa Internet Summit with AFRINIC. It is the main recurring technical forum where African hosting, routing and DNS practice is set, which underpins page-speed and availability for African websites.
Google Search Central Live
Google's touring event series bringing Search relations engineers to regional audiences, with 2025 and 2026 editions announced across Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East and Africa. It is the only recurring format where search engine staff take direct technical questions from local SEO communities in person.
Why it matters to search
Regional Search Central Live events in Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich, Madrid, Dubai, Mexico City, São Paulo and others.
Google Search Central Live is a meetup network based in United States.
Related organizations
4 other meetup networks, plus others based in United States.
Free unconference for digital analytics that started in London in September 2012 with 130 attendees and ran in 27 cities worldwide as of 2025, including Tokyo, Delhi, Sydney, Berlin and San Francisco. Its Saturday, no-fixed-agenda format is the main grassroots venue where analytics and SEO measurement practitioners exchange working methods.
Community founded in Cambridge in 2016 by Joe Glover, now running around 200 free or donation-ticketed events a year for a community of over 51,000 marketers. Its sessions regularly cover search, content and digital strategy and provide an accessible entry point for practitioners outside major agency hubs.
Conference series run by Women in Tech SEO with editions in Philadelphia, London, Berlin, Portland and Melbourne. Every speaking slot goes to a woman in search, making it the main pipeline through which new SEO speakers enter the conference circuit.
The ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, which runs the SIGIR conference plus ICTIR and CHIIR and publishes SIGIR Forum. It is the academic venue where ranking, retrieval, evaluation and now retrieval-augmented generation methods are published years before they surface in commercial search behaviour.
Independent auditor of media and advertising data, verifying circulation, digital traffic and ad-supply data for publishers and buyers. Its audits are one of the few third-party verifications of publisher traffic claims, relevant when evaluating link and placement partners.