Jose Ponce Jr.
Speaking

Talks and workshops

Jose speaks on search visibility, AI-assisted discovery, and the practical, unglamorous work of putting AI agents into real organizations. Sessions favor live demonstration and evidence over slideware.

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For more than a decade, conferences were places where I went to learn. Being invited to share from the stage is a newer chapter of the same story: from student to contributor.

404Con 2026

404Con 2026 opening speaker and hands-on workshop leader.

Jose led the event’s hands-on OpenClaw implementation across a three-day program. Jose worked with organizer Lee Whitcher to select and validate the attendee hardware, tested the first unit at home, and then configured and provisioned the full fleet.

  • helped select and validate the attendee hardware, and tested the first unit at home
  • configured and provisioned the full fleet
  • installed OpenClaw and supplied five starter agents: executive assistant, security, finance, attribution, and SEO
  • established the memory infrastructure, guardrails, and security protocols attendees worked within
  • led the opening hands-on implementation, supported attendees through the three-day program, and closed the event with a Q&A

Session themes across the program included how to work with and leverage agents, common misconceptions about agents, persistent identity, memory infrastructure, governance, guardrails, security, role design, coordination, and scaling.

Jose Ponce Jr. with workshop attendees seated around tables with laptops.
The hands-on room at 404Con 2026: attendees working on the laptop fleet Jose helped select, tested, and provisioned for the program.

Exact conference dates and individual session titles are awaiting organizer confirmation and are intentionally not listed yet.

SEO Rockstars 2026

Speaker, SEO Rockstars 2026. New Orleans, October 2 to 4, 2026, at Embassy Suites by Hilton New Orleans. Planned session, working title: “From Rankings to Readiness: What Changes When Search Becomes an Answer.”

SEO Rockstars is the practitioner conference run by the SEO Intelligence Agency community. Jose’s individual recognition comes from the same organization. Named Influencer #9 in the SEO Intelligence Agency's Best SEO Influencers Of The Year list (2018).

404Con Mastermind

Scheduled to speak at 404Con Mastermind, October 12 to 14, 2026. Location and session details will be added after organizer confirmation. This upcoming appearance is separate from the completed 404Con 2026 program above.

SEO Spring Training 2027

Invited to speak, SEO Spring Training 2027.

The session, exact date, and location are confirmed and will be shared when Jose is ready to publish them.

Topics Jose covers

  • Search visibility beyond rankings: found, understood, trusted, chosen
  • What AI answers actually reward, and how to earn it
  • Atomic facts, entity consistency, and proof architecture
  • Putting AI agents to work: identity, memory, guardrails, and role design
  • Implementation discipline for marketing teams and agencies

Ask about availability for conferences, private workshops, and executive sessions.