Agenda:
5:30 - Arrive at Catalyst, grab a bite, find a seat, meet others
6:00 pm - Welcome and intro
6:05 pm - JavaScript Web Apps & SEO - Friendship Is Magic by Martin Splitt, Google
6:40 pm - Q & A on JavaScript Web Apps & SEO
6:45 pm - Get Found: Navigating Google's Web Rendering Service by Jamie Alberico, Technical SEO Consultant
7:20 pm - Q & A on Google's Web Rendering Service
7:25 pm - Software Engineers: Ways To Not Be Bothered By Your SEO Friends And Maintain A Healthy Relationship by Alexis Sanders, Merkle
8:00 pm - Q & A on Ways To Not Be Bothered By Your SEO Friends
8:05 pm - Panel on Developer Relations in SEO with Martin Splitt, Jamie Alberico, Alexis Sanders and Paul Shapiro
8:25 pm - Have Fun, Wrap Up

Title: JavaScript Web Apps & SEO - Friendship Is Magic
Speaker: Martin Splitt, Google

Description: Search engines are a great way for users to discover your web applications. In this talk, we will explore what we can do in code to make sure that search engines understand our web apps and what options we have to make them shine. We will wrap it up by looking at common challenges and how to test for SEO.

Bio: Martin Splitt is a Developer Advocate on the Webmaster Trends Analyst team at Google Switzerland.
In this role, he helps developers and content creators to build great content on the web.
He is involved with the W3C as well as the global web and JavaScript developer community, working to keep the web open.

Title: Get Found: Navigating Google's Web Rendering Service
Speaker: Jamie Alberico, Technical SEO Consultant

Description: Jamie takes you on a journey to experience site content as Googlebot. You’ll learn how the search engine's crawler builds a page, ways to improve the search engine’s understanding, and tactics to navigate the divide between HTML and DOM.

Bio: Jamie Alberico isn’t a robot, but she speaks bot. As a technical SEO, she studies how search engines crawl, render, and index the web. She loves to tame wild JavaScript frameworks like Angular and React. When not working, Jamie likes horror movies, graphic novels, and Dungeons & Dragons.

Title: Software Engineers: Ways To Not Be Bothered By Your SEO Friends And Maintain A Healthy Relationship
Speaker: Alexis Sanders, Merkle

Description: #SEOHapiness = #DeveloperHapiness, things to know about SEOs, how to work together and be friends, presented in GitHub Markdown format

Bio: Alexis Sanders works as a Technical SEO Account Manager at Merkle. The technical SEO team ensures the accuracy, feasibility and scalability of the agency’s technical recommendations across all verticals. She is a contributor to the Moz blog, Search Engine Land, OnCrawl, and TechnicalSEO.com, creator of the TechnicalSEO.expert challenge, and during the day lives a normal life as an SEO account manager.

Title: Panel on Developer Relations in SEO with Martin Splitt, Jamie Alberico, Alexis Sanders and Paul Shapiro
Moderator: Paul Shapiro, Catalyst

Bio: Paul Shapiro is a "technical marketer", author, and regular speaker. He specializes in advanced SEO and is currently the Director of Strategy and Innovation at Catalyst, a GroupM/WPP Agency, working across verticals. Paul has worked with some of the most recognizable brands in the world to help improve their online presence and increase revenue.

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Sponsored by our host Catalyst: https://www.catalystdigital.com