Keynote · AI Search · GEO

AI search and GEO keynotes, backed by real research.

I research how people and AI systems discover, evaluate, and choose brands, then turn that evidence into decisions marketing leaders can defend. As Senior Market Research Manager at Semrush, an Adobe company, I bring current AI-search and consumer-behavior research to the stage. 500+ events, 35+ countries, trilingual delivery in English, Spanish, and Russian.

35+ countries 500+ events 50+ per year 4.9/5 avg rating 3 languages

No speaker fee. Semrush funds my research and my stage time, so there’s no fee to your event. I select on audience fit, not budget. Travel and logistics we sort out once it’s a match.

Five signature keynotes, each built around a decision.

Choose the change your audience needs to understand and the action they should be ready to take. Every talk is adapted to the room, backed by current research, and designed for executive clarity.

01 AI Visibility

How AI Overviews Decide Who to Cite

Mentions and citations are separate metrics: AI can name your brand without quoting you, and quote you without naming your brand. This talk breaks down the structural signals that predict citation across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Gemini, drawn from Semrush’s 2026 AI Visibility Index (126M prompts).

The room leaves with: a checklist of citation signals to audit on their own domain before the next quarterly review.

Keynote · 30–45 min · EN / ES
01 Zero-Click

The Zero-Click SERP Playbook

60%+ of Google searches end without a click. Six monetization plays, the metric that replaces share of traffic, and why fewer winners are capturing more of the attention.

The room leaves with: six concrete plays to monetize visibility when traffic is no longer the KPI.

Keynote · 30–45 min · EN / ES
03 Platform Strategy

Why Optimizing for ChatGPT Doesn’t Win Google

A brand can win on ChatGPT and stay invisible in Google’s AI answers. Across 126M prompts, the four engines agree on as little as 30% of the brands they name and cite fewer than 50% of the same sources. Each runs its own source diet. How to calibrate per platform instead of betting on one.

The room leaves with: a per-platform calibration approach their team can apply to its own vertical.

Keynote · 30–45 min · EN / ES / RU
03 GEO

GEO Foundations: The New SEO Stack for the Citation Era

What changes when ranking is replaced by citation. The four-layer GEO stack covers entity, evidence, structure, and distribution. It is the framework I use to brief CMOs on what their team should rebuild first.

The room leaves with: clarity on which layer of the GEO stack their team rebuilds first, and why.

Keynote · 30–45 min · EN / ES
06 Team Strategy

The AI Maturity Model: Where Your Marketing Team Actually Stands

Five stages, from “we monitor AI mentions” to “AI is a primary growth channel.” Where most teams actually sit, what each stage requires, and the 90-day move that gets you to the next level.

The room leaves with: an honest read on their team’s stage, and the single move that advances it.

Keynote · 30–45 min · EN / ES
07 MCP

MCP and the Agent-Ready Brand

Model Context Protocol is the API layer agents will use to read your brand. What MCP exposure means for marketing, the four content types agents can actually act on, and why your competitors are quietly publishing MCP servers right now.

The room leaves with: a plain-language brief on MCP they can take straight to product and engineering.

Keynote · 30–45 min · EN / ES
08 AEO

AEO: Answer Engine Optimization for B2B Buyers

How ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude extract answers, and why the page that wins the citation is rarely the page that ranks. The five-question audit B2B teams run on every cornerstone asset before publishing.

The room leaves with: the five-question audit, ready to apply to their next cornerstone asset.

Keynote · 30–45 min · EN / ES
04 Measurement

Mentions vs Citations: The Two Metrics Every CMO Conflates

AI can name your brand without quoting your site, and quote your site without naming your brand. Across the four engines, as few as 30% of mentioned brands are also cited. The two-metric model, why the metrics diverge by platform, and how to track and grow both instead of guessing from one blended “AI visibility” score.

The room leaves with: a two-metric measurement model their analytics team can adopt as is.

Keynote · 30–45 min · EN / ES
10 Digital PR

Win Your Industry’s Citation Core

Every vertical has a small set of sites every AI engine trusts and cites by default: NerdWallet and Investopedia in finance, G2 and Capterra in software, Healthline and Mayo Clinic in health. Win your Citation Core and AI describes you correctly everywhere. The audit, the third-party placements that move the needle, and why your own domain isn’t the fastest route.

The room leaves with: a map of their vertical’s Citation Core and the placements to pursue first.

Keynote · 30–45 min · EN / ES
05 Topic Authority

How to Own a Topic in ChatGPT

Winning one prompt is not topic authority. A Semrush study of 50,000 brands across 1,094 categories reveals how consistent mentions become a defensible lead and why 85% of AI-search topics still have no clear owner.

The room leaves with: a topic-ownership map for identifying open prompts, measuring consistency, and building a lead competitors cannot erase with one campaign.

Keynote · 30–45 min · EN / ES

Need a narrower brief? Six specialist modules on citation signals, platform strategy, digital PR, AEO, and MCP are available for technical audiences and private workshops.

Stage presence, not just a speaker bio.

A full keynote and an unfiltered view of the room, so event teams can assess delivery, pacing, and audience command before making contact.

Full keynote: research translated into a practical narrative for a live marketing audience.

Fernando Angulo presenting AI search research to a full conference room
Conference delivery across executive, practitioner, and multilingual rooms.

Where I’ll be next

Currently confirmed engagements for 2026. For private events and corporate strategy sessions, send the invite form.

Aug
26
UK SEO Summit 2026
Aug 26, 2026 Shepperton, UK ukseosummit.com
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Sep
18
Future Ready Digital: North
Sep 18, 2026 Sheffield, UK futurereadydigital.co.uk
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Sep
22
Jaywing Marketing Roadshow, Leeds
Sep 22, 2026 Leeds, UK Globe Point
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Sep
22
AI Summit Barcelona
Sep 22–23, 2026 Barcelona, Spain WTC Barcelona
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Oct
1
EcomExpo 2026
Oct 1, 2026 Vilnius, Lithuania Samsung Conference Center
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Nov
11
Digital Marketing Europe 2026
Nov 11–12, 2026 Vilnius, Lithuania Apollo Cinema Vilnius Outlet
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Stages worked

A non-exhaustive list of conferences and academic forums where the talks above (or earlier versions) have been delivered.

GEO Conference Croatia SEO Summit BrightonSEO SMX Advanced MozCon DMWF Search Central SearchLeeds DigiMarCon ESOMAR Georgetown University University of Georgia University College Dublin Olivet Nazarene University IAE Lyon Digital Marketing Europe

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AI Search 2026 · By the Numbers

The data on stage.

Every stat below is dated and sourced. These are the numbers I pull on stage when audiences ask “how big is this really?” Last updated May 2026.

+49%
Google impressions YoY

AI Overviews surface more brands per query, inflating impressions while clicks collapse.

Source: BrightEdge Generative Parser, 2026
−30%
Organic CTR on AI Overview queries

Visibility is up. Clicks are down. The gap between being seen and being chosen is widening.

Source: BrightEdge, 2026
+120%
Click premium when cited in AI Overviews

Cited brands earn ~120% more organic clicks per impression than uncited brands on the same query.

Source: Seer Interactive, 2026
126M
AI-search prompts analyzed

The 2026 Index covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews across 22 verticals (Jan–Apr 2026).

Source: Semrush AI Visibility Index, 2026
30%
How much AI engines agree on which brands to name

Mention–source overlap ranges from 30% on Gemini to 64% on Google AI Overviews, no single AI strategy wins all four.

Source: Semrush AI Visibility Index, 2026
15.4
Sources ChatGPT cites per answer

Citation density swings ~5× by engine, ChatGPT cites 15.4 sources per answer, Gemini just 3.3.

Source: Semrush AI Visibility Index, 2026
81%
Integrated SEO + AI teams report more AI traffic

81% of teams that unify SEO and AI search report more traffic or leads from AI, vs 36% of teams that run them separately.

Source: Semrush AI Visibility Index, 2026
4.3×
How often AI cites Wikipedia per brand mention

Reference and review libraries dominate citations, AI cites Wikipedia 4.3× and IMDb 3.9× for every brand mention.

Source: Semrush AI Visibility Index, 2026
60%+
Google searches end without a click

The majority of searches now resolve inside the SERP.

Source: SparkToro Zero-Click, 2024 (re-validated 2026)