We knew this was coming and now Google officially launched the Google Webmaster Conference. The goal of this conference series is to bring top level webmaster related content, i.e. SEO, development, and other ways to make your site perform better in search, directly from Googlers to areas of the world that might not be able to have their own events or travel to events.

Here is what Google wrote:

The format can change from event to event – some might be half day events, some may be longer. We saw flavors of this when Google announced the 15 events in India.

Currently there are two regions Google is hosting this event, one is in India and the other is in Indonesia – you can keep track of these events over here.

Some of the Googlers who run these events include Anna Ogawa. Technical Mobile Solutions Consultant, Google Japan; Gary Illyes, Web Trend Analyst, Google; Cherry Sireetorn Prommawi, Sr. Online Specialist, Google Singapore and Yariv Adan, Software Engineer, Google Assistant.

Gary Illyes from Google said it was “slightly harder than I expected” to take the events to global scale but he said “we’ll get there.” They also may live stream some of the events but it may be a bit complicated:

To learn more, see https://events.withgoogle.com/wmc/.

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