Hitting the Road for SMX West
The title may be a bit dramatic since we can pretty much see the conference venue for SMX West from our building, but we’re excited to be there nonetheless! Yahoos will be sitting on a handful of panels, so stop by and learn what we’re up to.
Tuesday, February 10
Time: 10:45 am – noon
Panel: Technical SEO Issues For Developers
Speaker: Arnab Bhattacharjee, Senior Director, Yahoo! Search Technology & Engineering
Time: 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm
Panel: Local Search Marketing Tactics
Speaker: Atif Rafiq, Director, Product Marketing, Strategy and Business Development, Yahoo! Local
Wednesday, February 11
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panel: Just Behave, A Look At Searcher Behavior
Speaker: Larry Cornett, Vice President, Consumer Products, Yahoo! Search
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panel: Tapping Into Image Search
Speaker: Kaushal Kurapati, Director, Product Management, Yahoo! Search Multi-Media
Thursday, February 12
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Panel: Ask The Paid Search Reps
Speaker: Patrizio Spagnoletto, Senior Director, Yahoo! Search Marketing
Time: 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Panel: Ask The Search Engines
Speaker: Sharad Verma, Senior Manager, Yahoo! Search Technology
Time: 2:45pm – 3:45 pm
Panel: In House: Reporting & Scorecarding for Management – Management loves numbers
Speaker: David Roth, Director, Search Engine Marketing
Hope to see you there.
Yahoo! Search Blog Team

Is there any chances to have such a conference here in Europe?
Hey will you guyz offer a video for smx west coz damn am far.
Yahoo! will be sitting on a handful of panels!!
Hello Yahoo! Search Blog Team!
Sorry if this isn’t the right place for this post but I am hoping to get Atif or someone from Yahoo local to speak at a GEO Domain Conference in San Diego next week. Please pass along this url and let me know if someone could speak on a panel:
http://www.trumanhedding.com/conferences/geo-domain-2009-conference/