AEO Conferences 2027: Every AI Search and GEO Event With Dates

AEO conferences 2027 so far: sixteen AI search and GEO events already have dates. The dedicated ones are Relevance (formerly SEO Week, New York, Apr 6-8), Citation Conference (Toronto, May 11-13), GEO KNOW HOW (Berlin, Sep 28) and Masters of Search (Berlin, Oct 12). Ahrefs Evolve runs AEO and SEO editions in Singapore, London and Austin.

I checked every date and price below on the organiser's own site on 24 October 2026. Where an organiser hasn't published something, the table says "not published" instead of guessing. If you want every SEO event, not only the AI search ones, the full worldwide directory of 2027 SEO conferences lists about 100.

A quick note on naming. Search "geo conference" and most results are about an unrelated nonprofit conference run by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. On this page, GEO always means generative engine optimization: getting your brand cited and recommended in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers. AEO (answer engine optimization), LLM SEO and AI SEO describe the same work, and organisers pick whichever label suits their ticket page.

AEO conferences 2027: which events have confirmed dates?

These are the AEO, GEO and AI search conferences with 2027 dates, in calendar order. Then come the events that matter for AI search but haven't dated their 2027 edition yet. Prices are the organiser's published 2027 prices unless the row says otherwise.

Event	City	2027 dates	Status	Ticket price	Best for
Beyond Search Summit	Gurugram, India (Crowne Plaza)	Feb 26-27	Confirmed	₹11,990 +GST super early bird (first 20 seats; ₹24,990 regular), VIP ₹29,990 +GST (2027)	SEO and AEO teams in India and South Asia
KI-X für Kommunikation	Berlin, Germany	Mar 2-3	Confirmed	Not published (early bird saves €300 until Nov 30, 2026)	German-speaking PR and comms teams working on GEO
Baltic SEO Summit	Kaunas, Lithuania	Mar 3-5	Confirmed	€299 early bird, VAT included (2027)	SEO generalists who want an AI search strand
SERP Conf. Sofia	Sofia, Bulgaria	Mar 24-25 (secondary source)	Reported by Search Engine Watch, Aug 2026; not confirmed on the organiser site, which blocked our check	Not verified	Eastern European SEO and ecommerce teams
SMX Munich	Munich, Germany (ICM)	Apr 6-7 (workshops Apr 5)	Confirmed	€799 one day, €1,299 two days, up to €2,299 Gold, all +19% VAT, early bird to Dec 4, 2026	European search teams that run GEO, SEO and PPC together
Relevance 2027 (formerly SEO Week)	New York, US (HALO)	Apr 6-8	Confirmed	$999 three-day Founding Member, limited to 30 tickets (2027)	Senior marketers turning AI search into a growth plan
Ahrefs Evolve Singapore	Singapore (Pan Pacific Orchard)	Apr 14-15	Confirmed	US$709 early release standard pass (on sale until Apr 13, 2027)	APAC SEO and AEO practitioners
brightonSEO UK	Brighton, UK	Apr 15-16	Confirmed	From £330 +VAT early bird until Dec 3, 2026	Mixed search teams who want breadth
Phuket AI Marketing Summit	Phuket, Thailand	Apr 22-24	Confirmed	Not published (early bird ended)	AI marketing and AI search operators
Citation Conference	Toronto, Canada (Design Exchange)	May 11-13 (Citation Eve May 11)	Confirmed	Not published; tickets go live Oct 26, 2026	In-house leaders who own AI visibility
Ahrefs Evolve London	London, UK (Town Hall by Bottaccio, King's Cross)	May 26-27	Confirmed	£599 early release standard pass (2027)	UK and European SEO and AEO teams
Ahrefs Evolve Austin	Austin, US (JW Marriott)	Sep 9-10	Confirmed	$749 early release standard pass, plus $61.79 tax at checkout (2027)	US practitioners who want workshops and masterminds
brightonSEO San Diego	San Diego, US	Sep 9-10	Confirmed	$550 Full Conference + Perks, $830 VIP until Dec 3, 2026 ($1,100 and $1,835 regular)	US search teams; ticket includes Hero Conf (PPC)
GEO KNOW HOW	Berlin, Germany (Festsaal Kreuzberg)	Sep 28	Confirmed	€399-€499 + VAT, agencies €899 + VAT (2027)	German-language GEO, in-house teams
MAICON	Cleveland, US	Oct 4-7 (main pass Oct 5-7)	Confirmed	$1,199 early rate until Oct 31, 2026 ($2,099 full); CMO package $2,099 early ($2,999 full)	Marketing leaders running AI adoption
Masters of Search	Berlin, Germany (von Greifswald)	Oct 12	Confirmed	€399 +VAT early bird until Jun 30, 2027, then €499 +VAT; VIP €999 +VAT	English-language AI search operators in Europe
SEOSummit.ai	Istanbul, Turkey (planned: ICC Istanbul)	2027, date not announced	Expected (waitlist)	Not published	Agency owners focused on LLM SEO
AEO Conf (AirOps, Graphite, Webflow)	San Francisco, US	Not announced (2026 ran Feb 19)	Expected	Not published; 2026 recordings free on demand	B2B and SaaS content teams
GEO Conference	US (2026: New York, San Francisco)	Not announced	Expected	2027 not announced; 2026 editions $1,100	US in-house search and brand leads
Zero Click (Profound)	Several cities	Not announced	Expected	Free, by request (2026)	Enterprise AI search leads
SEO & GEO Summit	Disneyland Paris, France	Not announced (2026 ran Oct 15-16)	Expected	2027 not announced; 2026 from €225 excl. VAT	French-speaking SEO and acquisition teams
Spotlight by Semrush	Not announced	Not announced	Expected (2027 waitlist open)	Not published	Senior marketers, brand discovery in AI

Two things stand out. First, only four events on this list exist purely for AI search: Relevance, Citation Conference, GEO KNOW HOW and Masters of Search. Everything else is a search or marketing conference that has put AI search at the front of its programme.

Second, the dates collide. SMX Munich and Relevance both run on April 6-7, and Ahrefs Evolve Austin lands on the same September 9-10 as brightonSEO San Diego. If you plan to do both halves of either pair, you can't.

What changed for 2027 that older AEO conference lists miss?

Most of the AEO conference lists ranking today were written for 2026 and say little about 2027. Three changes matter if you're planning next year.

SEO Week is now Relevance. iPullRank's New York event has renamed itself "Relevance 2027: The AI Search Conference". The organiser says its sessions had already turned to AI search and visibility, so the name followed. It moves earlier, to April 6-8, 2027 at HALO in New York, and pitches itself at executives more than practitioners.

Ahrefs Evolve leaves San Diego. The 2027 series runs in Singapore (Apr 14-15), London (May 26-27, its first UK edition) and Austin (Sep 9-10), and the site now bills it as an "AEO, SEO & Marketing Conference".

New dedicated GEO events have dated 2027. Foundation's Citation Conference is new, capped at 200 seats, and reviews every seat request by hand. Masters of Search returns on October 12 after a first edition on October 22, 2026, with Aleyda Solis, Malte Landwehr (Peec AI), Margus Veeber (Pipedrive) and Niklas Buschner (Radyant) already confirmed. GEO KNOW HOW, run by the Berlin agency Claneo, reaches its third edition on September 28.

One more thing worth knowing: several of the lists that rank for "aeo conference" are published by companies that run one of the events. Profound's list ranks its own Zero Click first, and Foundation's list closes with its Citation Conference, which it discloses as its own event. Both lists are useful; it simply helps to know who wrote them. For the record, Saaslinks doesn't run or co-host any event on this page.

What does the 2027 AI search conference calendar look like month by month?

Most people searching for GEO conferences 2027 are trying to fit one or two trips into a budget. Here is the year by quarter.

January to March

• Feb 26-27: Beyond Search Summit, Gurugram. An SEO, AEO and AI conference; the first 20 standard seats are the cheapest.
• Mar 2-3: KI-X für Kommunikation, Berlin. A German comms conference with a session on turning communication goals into AI search visibility (GEO).
• Mar 3-5: Baltic SEO Summit, Kaunas. Broad SEO, with AI search on the programme.
• Mar 24-25: SERP Conf. Sofia. Dates come from a secondary source (Search Engine Watch), so check the organiser site before you book travel.

April to June

• Apr 6-7: SMX Munich (workshops Apr 5). The organiser now leads with "GEO + SEO + PPC".
• Apr 6-8: Relevance, New York.
• Apr 14-15: Ahrefs Evolve Singapore.
• Apr 15-16: brightonSEO UK.
• Apr 22-24: Phuket AI Marketing Summit. Speakers listed so far include Metehan Yesilyurt (Peec AI), Dawn Anderson and Cindy Krum.
• May 11-13: Citation Conference, Toronto.
• May 26-27: Ahrefs Evolve London.

April is crowded. If your team can only fund one spring trip, it's realistically a choice between Munich, New York and Singapore.

July to December

• Sep 9-10: Ahrefs Evolve Austin, or brightonSEO San Diego. Same dates, so pick one.
• Sep 28: GEO KNOW HOW, Berlin (German-language).
• Oct 4-7: MAICON, Cleveland. Broad AI marketing, not search-specific.
• Oct 12: Masters of Search, Berlin (English).

The autumn gap is real. GEO Conference, Zero Click, SEO & GEO Summit and C3 all ran in late 2026, and none has dated a 2027 edition yet. Expect several of them to land in Q4 2027. Online events fill some of these gaps, and I cover them further down.

Which AI search events are still left in 2026?

If you don't want to wait until next year, a handful of AEO events run in the next few weeks. All dates are from the organisers' sites.

• Zero Click Sydney (Oct 27) and Singapore (Oct 29), 2026. Profound's free events; you request a place and it isn't guaranteed.
• C3 2026 by Conductor, New York, Oct 28, 2026. $500 per ticket, framed around "agentic AEO".
• GEO Elite, London, Nov 12, 2026. 120 places at Wallacespace, tickets from £215.
• 3XE AI, Dublin, Dec 3, 2026. At The Alex Hotel; €195 +VAT in October, €245 +VAT from November, virtual €149 +VAT.
• GEO Conference New York (Dec 4) and San Francisco (Dec 9), 2026. 150 seats per city, $1,100 per ticket, rising on November 1.

How do you choose between a dedicated AEO conference and a big SEO event?

Start with what your team actually owns. If someone has been told "make us show up in ChatGPT" and has no measurement plan, a dedicated room like Citation Conference or Masters of Search gives the most relevant hours per dollar. Every session is about the same problem.

If AI search is one of five jobs on your plate, a broad event is usually better value. SMX Munich, brightonSEO and Ahrefs Evolve all cover AI answers alongside technical SEO, content and links. The work overlaps, but not completely. As our GEO playbook for ranking in AI search sets out, getting cited is mostly about being retrievable and quotable: answer-first passages, being in Bing's index, crawlable pages. A good broad event covers those and the classic SEO they sit on.

Then check who owns the event. Ahrefs, Profound, Conductor, Foundation, AirOps and Semrush all sell AI visibility software or services. Their events can be excellent, and vendor-run doesn't mean biased. My advice: expect some of their own tools and data on stage, and look for at least a few speakers from brands that aren't customers.

In my experience, the best signal is a published agenda with named speakers and specific session titles. A page that only says "the future of AI search" this close to the event usually means the programme isn't built yet.

What should you budget for an AI search conference in 2027?

Ticket prices on this list range from free (Zero Click, by request) to about $2,999 (MAICON's CMO package at full price). Most dedicated AEO events sit between roughly £215 and $1,100 for a day or two.

Travel is the bigger number for most people. A one-day event in Berlin still costs a flight and at least one night, so a €499 ticket can turn into a much larger trip. Several organisers negotiate hotel rates: Ahrefs Evolve Austin lists a $339 per night attendee rate at the JW Marriott, and Beyond Search Summit offers ticket holders a discounted room rate.

Early bird deadlines are the cheapest money you'll save this year:

• Oct 31, 2026: MAICON early rate ends.
• Nov 1, 2026: GEO Conference 2026 prices rise by $100.
• Nov 30, 2026: KI-X early bird ends.
• Dec 3, 2026: brightonSEO UK and San Diego early prices end.
• Dec 4, 2026: SMX Munich early bird ends.
• Jun 30, 2027: Masters of Search early bird (€399) ends.

How do you get real value from an AEO conference?

Go with a question, not a notebook. Before the trip, write down the 20 or 30 prompts you care about and how your brand shows up in them today. Then use the hallway time to ask speakers how they sample prompts, how often they re-run them, and how they handle answers changing from one run to the next. Our breakdown of how AI visibility tools work explains why three trackers can give three different answers, which is worth knowing before you hear a vendor's numbers on stage.

Ask about sources, not only tactics. The most useful AI search sessions show which pages and sites the models actually cite. That tells you where to earn coverage, and it ties directly to how to get cited by ChatGPT.

Treat the event as a source of mentions, too. Speaker pages, recap posts, sponsor listings and podcast recordings all create brand mentions on relevant sites. The data suggests brand mentions track AI visibility more closely than raw backlink counts, so a talk or a panel seat can do more for your AI presence than the ticket suggests. Several organisers take pitches: SMX Munich links a call for speakers from its site, Ahrefs Evolve has an "Apply to Speak" form, and Phuket has a speaker page.

Are there cheaper or free ways to learn AEO in 2027?

Yes, and some are better than a mediocre paid ticket.

• Recordings from past events. AEO Conf's 2026 sessions, including G2's talk on its AEO experiments, are free to watch on demand after a sign-up.
• Free invite events. Profound's Zero Click series has been free in 2026. You request a place and wait for approval.
• Regional events. Beyond Search Summit's super early bird is ₹11,990 +GST (about $150 all in, per the organiser) and Baltic SEO Summit's early bird is €299.
• One-day passes. SMX Munich sells single days from €799 +VAT, and Masters of Search is a single day by design.
• Online events. For webinars and virtual summits, see our guide to free and virtual SEO conferences in 2027.

If you're in the US, the USA SEO conference guide for 2027 covers the wider calendar around Relevance, Ahrefs Evolve Austin and brightonSEO San Diego. In Europe, the Europe 2027 guide and the UK and London guide list the non-AI search events around Munich, Berlin and Brighton.

Keep reading

The AI search calendar will fill in through early 2027, especially in Q4, and I'll update this page as organisers publish dates. For every other SEO event, region by region, start with the complete 2027 SEO conference directory.