Yahoo!'s set to take on two big conferences next week. Taking a divide and conquer approach, Yahoo! will split up to attend SES in Chicago and WebmasterWorld's PubCon in Las Vegas to participate in a total of 13 panels focusing on topics such as traffic quality, brand management and local/video search, to name a few.

Here's where we'll be spending our time (in addition to manning our booth at WebmasterWorld):

SES CHICAGO
December 3 - 6, 2007

Tuesday, December 4
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Online Maps: Plotting the Direction of Local Search
Jeremy Kreitler, Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Maps

Wednesday, December 5
10:15 - 11:15 a.m.
Digital Shelf: The Search Marketing Opportunity for Packaged Goods
Matt Wilburn, Senior Category Director, CPG

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Breaking Down Silos: Specialization With Integration
Kelly Graziadei, Senior Agency Development Director

Ad Exchanges are Changing Everything
Bill Wise, VP, Yahoo! Publisher Network

2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
CSS, AJAX, Web 2.0 & Search Engines
Priyank Garg, Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Search

WEBMASTERWORLD'S PUBCON
December 4 - 7, 2007

Tuesday, December 4
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Major PPC Engines - Vendor Panel
Patrizio Spagnoletto, Senior Director of Marketing, Yahoo! Search Marketing

Duplicate Content Issues Duplicate Content Issues
Priyank Garg, Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Search

11:35 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.
In House SEO
Jessica L. Bowman, Senior Marketing Manager

7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Special Event: Open Search Forum with the Engines and Special Guest Moderator Guy Kawasaki
Tim Mayer, Vice President of Product Management, Yahoo! Search
Dan Boberg, Managing Director of Sales Technology, Yahoo! Search Marketing

Wednesday, December 5
10:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Local and Mobile Search
Brian Gil, Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Local

1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
SEO and Big Search
Dave Roth, Director of Search Engine Marketing

Thursday, December 6
10:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Brand Management
Jessica L. Bowman, Senior Marketing Manager

Video Search Engines
Bruno Furnari, Senior Product Manager, Yahoo! Search

Hope to see you at the shows!

Yahoo! Search Blog team