Sessionize Speaker Scraper — Conference Speaker Profiles & Topics Directory

Extract structured profiles of public speakers from Sessionize.com — the leading Call for Papers platform used by thousands of tech conferences worldwide (Microsoft Build, dotNETConf, WeAreDevelopers, AWS community events, and more).

For every public speaker profile, this actor extracts name, company, job title, LinkedIn URL, location, areas of expertise, speaking topics, and full session history — ready to import into your CRM or use for targeted outreach.

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What data you get

{
  "url": "https://sessionize.com/santosh-durgam",
  "name": "Santosh Durgam",
  "title": "Morningstar Investments Inc, Manager of Software Engineering",
  "location": "Chicago, Illinois, United States",
  "photo": "https://sessionize.com/image/...",
  "links": {
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/santoshdurgam/",
    "blog": "https://santoshdurgam.wordpress.com/",
    "website": "https://scholar.google.com/..."
  },
  "areas_of_expertise": ["Finance & Banking", "ICT", "Media & Information"],
  "topics": ["Data Engineering", "Data Science & AI", "AWS Data & AI"],
  "sessions": [
    {
      "title": "From Ingestion to Insights: Building Robust Data Pipelines in AWS",
      "url": "/s/santosh-durgam/...",
      "summary": "..."
    }
  ]
}

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Use cases

🎤 Conference & Event Organizers

Find speakers for your next event filtered by topic, location, and expertise area. Instead of manually browsing Sessionize or relying on your personal network, get a complete structured list of speakers who cover exactly the topics your audience cares about — with their contact channels already included.

🤝 Developer Relations & Community Teams

DevRel teams at tech companies constantly need to identify active community speakers, advocates, and MVPs. Filter by topic ("Kubernetes", "AI/ML", "Azure") to find the most influential voices in any technical ecosystem. The awards field surfaces Microsoft MVPs, AWS Heroes, Google Developer Experts — the profiles worth prioritizing.

💼 B2B Sales Targeting Tech Decision Makers

The title field contains the full job title and company name in a single string. A speaker with title "Manager of Software Engineering at Morningstar Investments" is a named, reachable decision maker with a declared area of expertise. The sessions array tells you exactly what problems they are solving right now — use it to personalize outreach at scale.

🎙️ Speakers Bureaus & Talent Agencies

Build and maintain a database of active conference speakers segmented by vertical, geography, and seniority. Session history is a direct proxy of speaking activity — profiles with 10+ public sessions are established voices.

🔍 Recruiting & Executive Search

Senior engineers and architects who speak at conferences are among the most valuable and hardest-to-find profiles in the market. Sessionize lets you filter them by topic, location, and active conference participation — something LinkedIn search alone cannot do.

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Input

{
  "include_detail": true
}

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
include_detail	boolean	true	If true, scrapes the full speaker profile including topics, expertise areas, session history and all social links. Set to false for a lighter run returning only name, title, location and profile URL.

That's it. No URLs to find, no configuration needed. Hit Start and the actor crawls the entire public Sessionize speaker directory automatically, paginating through all available profiles.

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Why Sessionize data is uniquely valuable

Most B2B contact databases give you a name, a company, and a job title. Sessionize gives you something harder to find: verified proof of expertise. A speaker profile is not a self-reported claim on a LinkedIn bio — it is a track record of accepted conference talks, each validated by an event organizer.

The topics field reflects what the speaker is actively presenting in 2024–2025, not what they listed on a resume years ago. Combined with the sessions array and full talk summaries, you can build highly personalized outreach that references their actual work — a level of context no generic lead database provides.

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Export formats

JSON · CSV · Excel · XML — directly from the Apify dataset view or via API.

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Related actors

• 🔗 LinkedIn Events Participants Scraper — extract attendees from LinkedIn events for B2B lead generation
• 🌍 Contact Scraper — enrich speaker websites with emails and social contacts

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