Your guide to Mini-Conference #004: 9 talks, lunch, cocktails & swag 🎒


Women in Marketing – Bulgaria · Mini-Conference #004

Your guide to the day:
SEO, AI Search (GEO) & Automation

Nine talks across three tracks, a full day of food and drinks, a swag bag worth taking home, and a room full of people who work on organic visibility. Here’s everything you can expect.

đź“…  Saturday, 21 November 2026
📍  Kitchen59, bul. Tsar Boris III 59, Sofia
🗣️  Delivered in English

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In-person €99 · Recording €30

What to expect

A full day, well fed and well looked after

🍽️ Fully catered, all day
A two-course lunch, snacks at every break, and drinks included: coffee to start, and a closing cocktail to finish.
🎒 A swag bag worth keeping
Goodies from Randum Goodies and our partners, including tote bags, banana and cross-body bags, laptop cases and merino hats.
📸 A photo booth and a few surprises
Fun extras throughout the day. We’re keeping some of them under wraps.
🥂 Closing networking cocktail
End the day with the speakers and the rest of the room.
🎥 Recordings and slides afterwards
Every session is recorded and sent to you after the event, so you don’t have to choose between tracks.

Your host and MC for the day is Marina Cholakova, Head of Organic and Performance Marketing at Local Fame.

The shape of the day
Morning Arrival, registration & coffee · Welcome · Track sessions
Midday Two-course lunch & networking
Afternoon Track sessions · Panel discussions · Coffee break
Evening Closing & cocktail party 🥂

Exact session times are on the event page as we finalise them.

The sessions

Three tracks. One organic-growth playbook.

Whether you work in SEO, content, organic growth or lead a marketing team, here’s what each talk will give you.

Track 1
SEO — Winning in Traditional Surfaces
Jojo Furnival
Marketing Manager, Sitebulb
Less Chaos, More Organic Growth: Building a Content Machine When You’re a Team of One
How Jojo runs content as a one-person function at Sitebulb: five systems, from a repurposing pipeline that turns one webinar into ten pieces to a community-listening habit that costs nothing extra.
  • A five-system framework you can start building this week
  • An honest map of which content tasks AI can take off your plate, and which it can’t
Roxana Stingu
Head of Search & SEO, Alamy
Once a Search Engine, Always a Search Engine
Lessons from building Alamy’s own search engine, used to explain behaviours we all see in Google and other platforms.
  • A clearer mental model of why search engines behave the way they do
  • More context for reading algorithm shifts, without the panic
Vyara Stefcheva
Business and Marketing Strategist
How to use Synthetic Personas to Rewrite your SEO Strategy
Query fan-out and AI shortlists mean understanding the customer beats keyword volume. Vyara shares her method for AI-powered synthetic buyer personas, with a real case study.
  • A step-by-step method for building a persona grounded in real business data
  • How to simulate the persona’s AI agent searching on its behalf
Track 2
AI Visibility Marketing — AI Search, Agentic & GEO
Aleyda SolĂ­s
SEO & AI Search Consultant · Founder, Orainti
International SEO in an AI Search Era: What Has Changed and What Hasn’t
What it takes to be recommended across international markets in AI answers, with research data and a winners-and-losers analysis.
  • What’s genuinely changed, and what’s still fundamental, for international SEO
  • How to evolve your strategy to maximise AI visibility across markets
Beatrice Gamba
Head of Innovation, WordLift
Building Trust for Minds That Never Met You: Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies for AI Systems
AI systems only trust the evidence put in front of them. Why reputation alone carries no weight with a machine, and how knowledge graphs fix that.
  • How to structure your organisation’s facts, relationships and evidence for machines
  • How knowledge graphs make a brand findable and believable to AI
Myriam Jessier
Independent AI Search Consultant
Multimodal: Video GEO — Optimizing for the Machine Gaze
LLMs cite YouTube constantly. How AI parses video across visual, audio and text streams, and the new specs for AI search.
  • Practical specs to make video machine-readable (frame sampling, audio bolding, caption contrast)
  • Why video is now both a retrieval surface and a social format
Evelina Milenova
Senior SEO, Hostinger
Stop Treating AI Search Like One Channel: My Playbook for Success
ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Gemini don’t draw on the same sources. Evelina’s research and client work on treating each surface on its own terms.
  • Realistic prompt tracking built from real customer conversations
  • A testing approach for earning places on highly cited third-party pages
Track 3
AI Automation for Organic Growth
Lazarina Stoy
Founder, Women in Marketing – Bulgaria · MLforSEO
Building scalable automations for tasks that win visibility in both traditional and agentic search
Automations that survive moving between projects and sites, combining ML APIs, LLMs and rule-based systems. Three use cases end to end.
  • Entity audits, structured data and content transformation, from rationale to scripts
  • Resources to set each automation up yourself
Svetla Mihaylova
CRM, MarOps & Automation Consultant
Human in the Loop: What to Automate, What to Check and What to Own in Marketing
Automations for small teams built with n8n, Zapier and Claude Code: what AI can run alone, where a person signs off, and what you never hand over.
  • A four-question checklist for deciding what AI can run on its own
  • Example automations you can implement in your own work

More panels are still to be added. See the full programme →

Save your seat
In-person €99, including food, drinks, swag and recordings. Can’t travel? Recording ticket €30.
Coming with colleagues? Teams get 2+1 and 3+2 offers. Email team@womeninmarketing.bg to book as a team.
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Our sponsors & partners

Community partners
ProCredit Bank
ProCredit Bank · A modern, development-oriented bank built on transparency, and a long-standing partner of our community.
Yoast
Yoast · The team behind the WordPress SEO plugin used by 13M+ sites. Yoast SEO AI+ shows how your brand appears in AI answers.
Marketing sponsor
Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog · Makers of the SEO Spider, and supporters of this community since our very first networking dinner.
Scholarship sponsors
Advanced Web Ranking
Advanced Web Ranking · Rank tracking and search visibility for SEO teams. AWR is funding seats for community members who couldn’t otherwise attend.
MLforSEO
MLforSEO · AI and machine-learning training for marketers, also funding scholarship seats.
Event partners
Randum Goodies
Randum Goodies · Our swag partner, curating and producing the goodies in every attendee bag.
Co-Kitchen
Co-Kitchen · Our home for speaker dinners since the very first edition.
Venue & media partners

Kitchen59, our venue, an ecosystem of event spaces, the Talents restaurant and co-working floors in Sofia’s Hipodruma district. Spreading the word: Sofia Expats Community and SoftUni AI Community.

We can’t wait to see you there. Reply to this email if you have any questions.

With warmth,

Lazarina & the Women in Marketing – Bulgaria team

Lazarina Stoy, Founder, Women in Marketing – Bulgaria

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