ISTA 2026Fest Edition

Sofia Event Center

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Latest InsightISTA 2026 adds Nikolay Avramov, who works on the test suites that still have to run in a year

ISTA speaker

Vasilisa Marinova-Kaseva

Senior Manager SEO, Merkle Bulgaria

Confirmed for ISTA 2026

The ISTA 2026 programme is not published yet, so no session is listed here for that edition. See what is confirmed.

Portrait of Vasilisa Marinova-Kaseva

Biography

Vasilisa is a Senior SEO Manager at Merkle Bugaria with over 15 years of hands‑on experience in search engine optimisation. She specialises in complex, JavaScript‑driven architectures, including SPAs and large‑scale enterprise websites. Over the past four years at Merkle Bulgaria, she has led SEO strategy for major global accounts such as BAT, PMI, and Crocs. During the years, she oversaw SEO for the largest educational website in Bulgaria and its international counterparts. Vasilisa is a Winner of the Total Search Awards 2026, sponsored by Google, recognised for excellence in integrated search through the successful combination of SEO, technical optimisation, AI, PPC, content, and advanced data utilisation for Benefit Cosmetics

Edition history

One edition

Role and company as each edition published them — a title changes between years, and the archive is kept as it was.

  1. 2026

    Senior Manager SEO

    Merkle Bulgaria · 15 Oct 2026

ISTA 2026 · 15 October 2026

One day in October. A year of engineering knowledge.