Prague Crawl 2026

Prague Crawl is back, and better than ever!
We're connecting founders, developers, and data professionals to discuss the future of web scraping, anti-blocking, and the role of AI in data extraction.

Following the successful debut of Prague Crawl 2025, we are excited to announce the return of Central Europe’s leading web scraping and automation conference:
📈 Double the size
📍 New venue
🤝 Same mindset
Our Mission: building the community
Our mission is to build a strong community where we share expertise, tools, and valuable networking. We aim to be the central platform where developers, data scientists, business leaders, and founders can meet.
Share cutting-edge knowledge and expertise
Exchange proven tools and best practices
Foster valuable, high-level networking opportunities
Who should attend?
Web scraping developers and engineers
Data scientists and ML engineers
Business intelligence professionals
Startup founders and CEOs working with data
Product managers overseeing data teams
Join us in Prague!

Agenda:
10:00 — 📝 Registration & welcome coffee
11:00 — 🎤 Opening remarks
11:10 — Keynote: Every time you say "CLI is better than MCP" a clawdie dies Jan Čurn — Apify
11:30 — Lightning Talk: Strategies for large-scale crawler management Juan Manuel Pérez — Centric Software
11:40 — Lightning Talk: Scraping v. Law: 2025 EU cases Štěpánka Havlíková — Dentons
11:50 — Demo: How agents took over our web scraping pipeline João Drummond — Crawly
12:00 — ☕ Coffee break #1
12:15 — Public sector meets web scraping: Mapping housing prices in Czechia Klára Bayernheimerová — Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic
12:25 — Demo: How Cloudflare can detect you before you even connect Peter Pagenstedt — Browserbase
12:35 — Lightning Talk: The internet is open. The data isn't. Gunnar Catlett — Crawlbyte
12:45 — Lightning Talk: How to raise a $10M seed round Jason Grad — Massive
12:55 — 🍽️ Lunch
14:00 — Lightning Talk: Scraping reality: What the data says about AI in business Lukáš Benzl — Czech Association of AI
14:10 — Lightning Talk: Building a private AI brain for scraping teams Pierluigi Vinciguerra — The Web Scraping Club
14:20 — Lightning Talk: Apify Creator Gui Stetelle - Apify $1M Challenge LATAM winner
14:30 — Demo: String AI Logan Harless — String AI
14:40 — ☕ Coffee break #2
14:55 — Demo: ScrapeGraphAI Francesco Zupichini — ScrapeGraphAI
15:05 — Demo: Make Josef Vecernik — Make
15:15 — Lightning Talk: The browserless browser — scraping JS-heavy sites without Chrome Amit Parpara — Tavily
15:25 — Keynote: Using open models for web scraping Alejandro AO — Hugging Face
15:45 — ☕ Coffee break #3
16:05 — 🎙️ Panel: Build vs. Buy — How AI is changing the math for crawling Moderator: Jason Grad
16:50 — 🎤 Closing remarks
17:00 — Free time / Break until afterparty Use this time to refresh, take a walk, or grab a taxi to the Apify office in Lucerna. See you at 18:00! 🎉
18:00 — 🍻 Afterparty at the Apify office in Lucerna

Prague Crawl is brought to you by two leaders in data:
Massive provides a 100% ethically-sourced residential proxy network designed for high-performance, compliant web data collection across global markets.
Apify is the world’s largest marketplace of tools for web scraping, automation, and data for AI. Extract structured data from social media, e-commerce, search engines, maps, travel sites, or any other website.
➡️ Want to be a sponsor, submit a talk, or have a general question about the event? Feel free to contact us at hello@praguecrawl.com