The AI Mode Takeover: What Google I/O 2026 Means for AI Search with Chris Long

Search teams can't afford to treat AI Mode like just another Google feature rollout.

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Google has been steadily changing how people search, how answers get delivered, and how brands get discovered. If your team is still judging performance by rankings and legacy traffic, this session will help you reset fast.

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The next step is building a workflow that measures what actually matters (citations, prompt coverage, and conversational visibility) and keeps up as Google keeps moving.

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Join Chris Long for a practical conversation on what Google I/O 2026 actually changed, what AI Mode means for B2B visibility, and how lean teams can act without adding process drag.

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What you'll Learn:

• Why Google’s move from SGE to AI Overviews to AI Mode matters more than most SEO teams realized
• Which Google I/O 2026 updates belong on your roadmap now, including Search agents, conversational follow-ups, multimodal inputs, and the new AI-powered Search box
• How to measure AI search visibility beyond rank tracking, including citations, prompt coverage, competitor mentions, and conversational query visibility
• What makes content more likely to surface in fan-out queries and decision-stage research, where buyers ask deeper, more specific questions
• Practical workflows to audit, refresh, structure, and publish content built for AEO and AI search

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Speakers

Chris Long is Co-Founder at Nectiv and a leading voice on AI search, known for turning fast-moving Google changes into practical actions teams can use right away.

Josh Spilker is Head of Search Marketing at AirOps, and has been part of SEO & content teams at ClickUp, Toptal, and several other startups.