Talks and workshops
Help your audience make sense of changing search or examine how to put AI agents to work. Jose speaks on search visibility, AI-assisted discovery, and practical agent implementation. Explore the topics and appearances below to judge the fit for your conference, podcast, workshop, or executive session. Sessions favor live demonstration and evidence.
A quick guide for event organizers
Who it helps: Business and marketing leaders, marketing teams, and agencies examining search visibility, AI-assisted discovery, or practical agent adoption.
What your audience can examine:
- Whether customers can find, understand, trust, and choose a business.
- How business facts and supporting evidence compare across public sources.
- How identity, memory, guardrails, and role design shape practical AI agent implementation.
Evidence to inspect: 404Con implementation and workshop photographs, and SEO Rockstars presentation details and attributed feedback.
Topics Jose covers
- Search visibility beyond rankings: found, understood, trusted, chosen
- AI-assisted discovery: what systems may retrieve, what answers show, and what you can check
- Clear business facts and supporting evidence across public sources
- 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.
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.
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. Session: “When #1 Isn't the 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).
Your audience can know their subject inside out and still struggle to explain why a customer should choose their business. It can be frustrating when useful information leaves that decision unclear.
Reflecting on Jose's presentation at SEORockstars, Dori Friend wrote:
The part I keep coming back to: a page can be technically sound, cover the topic beautifully, and still leave out the reason to choose the business behind it. Jose put his finger right on that gap.
Dori Friend
Give your audience a practical way to examine whether their content connects the customer's problem to their offer, supports their claims and makes the next step clear.
404Con Mastermind
Listed appearance: 404Con Mastermind, October 12 to 14, 2026. Location and session details are not published. This listing is separate from the completed 404Con 2026 program above.
SEO Spring Training 2027
Confirmed speaker at SEO Spring Training 2027. The conference takes place April 7–11, 2027, in Chandler, Arizona.
The session, exact date, and location are confirmed and will be shared when Jose is ready to publish them.