SEO Conference Organisers; Where The F__k Are The Women?

SEO Conference Organisers; Where The F__k Are The Women?

From SEO F**king What - Get Found on Google, make money from your website by Nikki Pilkington

April 5, 2026 · 9 min · Episode 20

About this episode

Nikki Pilkington discusses the lack of female representation at SEO conferences and highlights the talented women in the industry.

This week I've gone off script. Someone posted about an SEO conference billing itself as the UK's most advanced -- sixteen speakers, all male, not one woman on the bill. I said something about it. The response was, essentially, "we had women last year." And here we are. This episode isn't about quotas or ticking boxes. It's about the fact that brilliant women in SEO exist, they're not hiding, and if your speaker lineup is sixteen mainly white men, the question you need to be asking is whether anyone actually went looking. In this episode: Why "we had women last year" is the laziest defence in the industry The women in SEO who should be on every conference organiser's radar Why the "we book who applies" argument falls apart when you think it through What conference organisers actually need to do differently And a word for the women in SEO who keep talking themselves out of putting their hand up Women I mention in this episode: Lily Ray, Helen Pollitt, Areej AbuAli, Carrie Rose, Lidia Infante, Jo Furnival, Alice Rowan. Want to find more women in SEO? Start with Women in Tech SEO at womenintechseo.com and WTSFest. Want me to speak at your event? I'm an SEO speaker, I'm a woman, and…

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