Talks & appearances
Speaker: Akash Hashmi. Read my full profile and career timeline.
Conference talks, expert panels, and workshops on SEO, AI, and search visibility – delivered at Brighton SEO, the Digitaloft Digital PR Summit, Sheffield DM, and as hands-on training for arts and community organisations.
Workshop · Cited × Culture Sheffield · May 2026
Arts Marketing Skills Workshop
A full-day workshop at Site Gallery for Sheffield arts organisations. SEO fundamentals, local listings, free Google tools, and nine practical steps from zero setup to ongoing monthly checks. 4.6/5 from 10 attendees.
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Have SEOs Ruined the Internet? User Awareness of SEO in 2025
Audiences are getting smarter about search-optimised content – and more sceptical of it. What that shift means, and why genuine expertise is the only durable response.
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AI for SEO Done Right: Building Brand-Boosting Tools
Ethical, transparent AI-driven solutions that enhance SEO and brand performance – with real case studies on building tools that don’t compromise trust.
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Prioritising Your Needle-Moving SEO Tasks
A practical framework for identifying the SEO tasks most likely to drive meaningful results and avoiding busywork that looks useful but doesn’t change performance.
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Panel: AI
AI panel alongside Travis Tallent, Omar Salah, and Crystal Carter – what’s genuinely useful, what’s hype, and how search teams should be thinking about AI tools day-to-day.
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SEO for Digital PR – Expert Panel
How SEO and Digital PR teams can work better together – covering relevancy signals, E-E-A-T, and how the relationship between links and authority has shifted.
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Organising Your SEO Workflow with Generative AI
How generative AI tools can reshape day-to-day SEO workflows – what works, what doesn’t, and how to build repeatable systems that actually save time.