AI Search: 2025 Recap & 2026 Game Plan

​AI search completely reshaped visibility in 2025. Winners emerged fast. So did losers. On December 17, we're sitting down with four people who've been in the middle of it - to break down what actually happened and where this is headed.

Lily Ray
One of the most respected voices in modern SEO and AEO. Lily leads SEO Strategy & Research at Amsive and has spent 15+ years helping some of the biggest brands on the internet navigate algorithm shifts, visibility resets, and now the transition into AI-driven search.

​Ethan Smith
CEO of Graphite, one of the top SEO growth agencies globally - and a go-to expert on where search is actually moving. After 18 years in traditional SEO, Ethan is now at the forefront of AEO: getting products to surface in AI search. 

​Malte Landwehr
Malte Landwehr is a long-time SEO and product leader who left a senior corporate VP role at idealo to become CPO & CMO of Peec AI, betting his career on the shift from classic SEO to AI search. 

​Marius Meiners
Co-founder & CEO of Peec AI, helping brands understand and win visibility on AI engines. Marius brings a product and strategy view on where AEO is heading, how brands are adapting, and what’s breaking inside the search ecosystem as AI takes over results pages.

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​Four people who live and breathe AI Search. We’ll talk through the strategies that crushed it, the brands that got buried, quick-fire takes on what's overhyped, and honest predictions for 2026. Plus audience Q&A.

​When: December 17
Duration: 1 hour
Format: Conversation + Q&A

​If you're trying to make sense of what happened in AI search this year or what to do about it in 2026 - this is the conversation to catch.