Jan Curn

Jan Curn

Jan Curn

Founder & CEO · Apify

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Bio

Jan Curn is the founder and CEO of Apify (https://apify.com), a full-stack web scraping and automation platform that powers (not only) AI agents with up-to-date data. He has a lifelong passion for software engineering, which earned him an MSc and PhD in computer science and eventually led him to founding Apify. Jan lives between SF and Prague, is active in the tech community in both cities, organizes meetups, and talks about software, startups, or AI.

Sessions (2)

Day 412:05pm-12:25pmTrack 2
x402 isn’t good (yet)
Day 41:55pm-2:15pmExpo Stage 2
MCP doesn’t suck — your agent does

Jan Curn is the co-founder and CEO of Apify, the largest marketplace of web-data tools (Actors) for AI agents, and a vocal practitioner at the intersection of MCP (Model Context Protocol), web scraping, and the emerging agentic economy. Attending his session offers hands-on, opinionated guidance on building agent tooling infrastructure (including his "code mode" and MCP critique talks) backed by running one of the largest web-data marketplaces powering AI agents.

Recent talks (5)

MCP doesn't suck — your agent does | Jan Curn - Apify | Prague Crawl 2026Prague Crawl 2026 · May 2026Code mode is best served in the shell - Jan Curn at MCP Connect DayMCP Connect Day · Feb 2026The rise of the agentic economy on the shoulders of MCP — Jan Curn, ApifyAI Engineer World's Fair 2025 · Jul 2025Let Agents Buy Stuff: How Apify's Marketplace + MCP Can Power the Agent EconomyJul 2025Apify, Jan Curn, Founder & CEO @AGI Builders Meetup SF 11/12/25AGI Builders Meetup SF · Nov 2025

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Recent writing (2)

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