29/03/2026
I just got back from CloudFest 2026.
4 days. 10,000+ professionals. 80+ countries. Back-to-back meetings with hosting CEOs, cloud founders, and infrastructure operators.
Here's what most post-event coverage won't tell you:
โ The SEO and AI Visibility conversation has crossed a threshold. Not at the edges of the industry but at its centre.
โ Hosting providers are now tracking their AI citation share unprompted
โ The Siinda Alliance Pavilion brought local SEO companies into the world's biggest hosting event
โ AI-generated code is producing technical SEO errors that no standard audit framework covers yet
And the single most important shift:
The bottom of the SEO market is being commoditised through hosting-bundled AI tools. The window to establish authority at the GEO and AI Visibility layer before that commoditises too is measured in months, not years.
I wrote the full intelligence brief: 5 CI signals from the floor, a GEO framework for 2026, and a complete breakdown of every SEO and AI Visibility exhibitor at the event.
๐ Link in the comments