Women in Tech SEO Festival returns to the Barbican for the fifth time
Delegates take over the Barbican Hall for a full day of SEO and marketing insights, with Searcys catering throughout and an end of day party in the Conservatory.
Barbican Business Events today welcomes Women in Tech SEO back to the Barbican for the fifth time, with a full day programme designed for learning, connection and community.
Taking place in the Barbican Hall, delegates will explore four key themes, Analyse, Advance, Innovate and Empower, with sessions covering the rapidly evolving search landscape and the practical realities of building visibility, trust and growth in 2026.
Topics include AI search and “agentic” journeys, using data to win stakeholder buy in, purposeful content frameworks, generative information retrieval, AI driven content workflows, and what platforms like Reddit mean for authentic brand engagement. The day also includes career focused sessions on confidence, resilience and leading with authenticity.
Attendees will be supported by the Barbican’s in house catering team with refreshments and lunch served throughout the conference, before closing the day with networking and celebrations at the after party in the Conservatory.
Francesca Pacinella, Account Manager at Barbican Business Events said: “Welcoming Women in Tech SEO back for a fifth time is a real point of pride for the Barbican. WTSFest creates a brilliant atmosphere of learning and belonging, and it is exactly the kind of community led event our spaces are built to support. From the Barbican Hall experience to the Conservatory party, we are delighted to play our part in another standout.”
Areej AbuAli, Founder of Women in Tech SEO said: “Returning to the Barbican feels like coming home. The space enables the scale and energy of WTSFest, and it supports what matters most to us, meaningful learning, genuine connection, and a community where people feel welcome.”
The event is expected to take place at the Barbican through to 2028.
About Barbican Business Events
The Barbican is one of the world’s leading conference and international arts venues. Located in the City of London, it is capable of holding meetings from 10-2,000 delegates in its fully equipped concert hall, theatres, conference suites and boardrooms. Barbican Business Events brings together the venue’s expertise in the arts and corporate meetings.
Built as part of London’s Barbican development and officially opened in March 1982 by HM Queen Elizabeth, unlike many other venues, Barbican was specifically built with the dual purpose of holding conferences and arts events presenting a diverse range of art, music, theatre, dance, film and creative learning.
The Barbican’s Business Events team contributes to the venue’s future success. To make the most of the Barbican’s rich culture and heritage, Barbican Business Events was created to bring together their expertise in three very different areas – the arts, creative learning and corporate business. This approach to corporate events is based on stronger, more in-depth partnerships with their artistic, creative learning and development teams in order to bring more creativity and rich content to events.
The Barbican provides a vibrant and Inspiring venue for corporate events, conferences, meetings and entertainment. The venue is capable of holding meetings from 10-2,000 delegates in spaces including a concert hall, theatres, a boardroom and conference suites that can accommodate 10-170 delegates and can be adjusted using sound proofed sliding. As part of its wider investment strategy, the Barbican spent £2.2m on a significant refurbishment throughout the Centre in the summer of 2016 including its Frobisher rooms and Level 4. The focus of the Frobisher refurbishment is designed to create an even stronger connection between the Centre’s main conference and meeting facilities and its arts spaces.
About the Barbican
A world-class arts and learning organisation, the Barbican pushes the boundaries of all major art forms including dance, film, music, theatre and visual arts. Its creative learning programme further underpins everything it does. Over a million people attend events annually, hundreds of artists and performers are featured, and more than 300 staff work onsite. The architecturally renowned centre opened in 1982 and comprises the Barbican Hall, the Barbican Theatre, The Pit, Cinemas 1, 2 and 3, Barbican Art Gallery, a second gallery The Curve, public spaces, a library, the Lakeside Terrace,a glasshouse conservatory, conference facilities and three restaurants. The City of London Corporation is the founder and principal funder of the Barbican Centre.
