AgentsRun on Apify

Jan Čurn is the founder and CEO of Apify, 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.

Lauren leads agentic commerce GTM for developer platforms and developer tools at Stripe. A seasoned entrepreneur, Lauren is a Stripe boomerang who was previously the co-founder and COO of Cocoon, where she raised tens of millions in venture capital and scaled the company from zero to millions in ARR before exiting to Trinet. Earlier in her career, she served in several foundational roles at Stripe across corporate finance, sales, and partnerships, including leading Stripe’s partnership with Apple.

Lukas works on the AI team at Apify, where he’s working out ways to market & sell to agents. In his free time he loves freeride ski and obsesses about ancient history.

Roman Roštár is the product person for Apify's core platform, the foundational building blocks behind everything else Apify ships, with a focus on resilience, composability, and developer experience. Before moving into product, he spent more than a decade across backend engineering, infrastructure, developer platforms, and startups. He was previously an Engineering Manager at Fly.io and co-founded IntellCRE, a proptech startup. These days he works on what it takes to build a developer platform for both humans and AI agents, and how that platform can power a marketplace of tools for agents. He is equally interested in how agentic commerce changes the infrastructure underneath it, and in the primitives developers need to expose their tools to that emerging ecosystem.

Josh Lucas is Director of AI Business Solutions at Workato, a title that sounds invented because it mostly is. His job did not exist a decade ago, and neither, strictly speaking, did the systems he now helps customers build. Workato automates the tasks that once required a human, a login, and a great deal of patience. Josh leads the team that helps customers imagine, and then actually build, systems of AI agents that do this work well, organized around five patterns his team named so customers could recognize which one they needed before they built it: the Reviewer, the Coordinator, the Analyst, the Builder, and the Watchdog. It is, he feels, a tidier way to think about the problem than most customers arrive with. He also keeps an AI agent of his own, consults it daily, and reports, with some surprise, that it is often right, which is more than can be said for most colleagues. In November, at Apify's Run, he will attempt to explain all of this to a room full of strangers, and expects at least partial success.

John Cole is an entrepreneur, engineer, and founder of Calculated Leap Ventures, where he invests in and advises early-stage technology companies. John founded Alpha OSINT, a financial open-source intelligence business built on a fleet of Apify Actors that turn public web and government data into decision-ready datasets for investors and operators. John came to web data the way many business users do: he needed data for a startup, found an Actor, and built his outreach on it. The startup didn't last, but the data pipeline did, and he has been building on the platform ever since.

Jan Beránek is the founder and CEO of FifthRow, an agentic consultancy that runs always-on intelligence mandates for large enterprises. Before FifthRow, he built U+, a corporate venture builder and strategy consultancy that launched more than 120 ventures with enterprise partners.

He started FifthRow in 2023, bootstrapped, after years of watching valuable consulting work disappear once the deck was delivered. The company keeps that work running: continuous monitoring on cadence, plus people who interpret the data and own the call.

Jan works where consulting delivery meets the AI-tool stack builders already run. At Run, he talks about turning that work into named jobs on live data, and why the future of consulting looks like systems that stay on.

Zuzka is Head of Apify Store, the largest marketplace of trusted tools for AI, where she has shaped the product since 2019. She joined early enough to have personally been the support team, the UX team, the QA team, the data team, and the product team (almost). Now she primarily looks after the Actors that Apify builds and maintains itself, but stays deeply connected to the whole ecosystem and to the thousands of community developers who publish, monetize, and grow their own. Both Apify and community Actors have to meet the same bar — reliable, well-documented, easy to pick up. She works from a house in the middle of a Czech forest, which does wonders for deep work and nothing for her upload speed.

Adam Schoenfeld is an independent builder and analyst covering GTM strategy and technology. He founded Adam's GTM Report, a data-backed newsletter and live AI x GTM market tracker. He has spent 20 years in B2B tech and founded four companies. He co-founded Simply Measured in 2010, bootstrapped Siftrock to profitability and sold it to Drift in 2018, then founded Keyplay, an ICP scoring platform acquired by Inflection in 2026, where he served as CMO. He now covers the GTM market, tracking which strategies are gaining attention, which technologies are shaping the modern stack, and which people are driving the conversation. More than 19,000 GTM leaders read his newsletter, and over 53,000 follow his work on LinkedIn, where he is a Top Voice. He lives in Seattle with his wife, two kids, and dog.

Kristin Boorse is the Founder and CEO of Canary, a nonprofit accelerating the speed of hope for sexually exploited children by harnessing technology, data, research, and innovation to help first responders find them faster. Under Canary, she leads Spotlight, a flagship product that equips investigators with the data and insights needed to quickly identify and safeguard victims of child sex trafficking.

With over 25 years of extensive experience spanning product management, product marketing, online community development, and business analysis, Kristin has leveraged her skill and expertise to advance her mission to leverage technology for social good, embodying humility and collaboration as she continues to drive meaningful change in the fight against child sexual exploitation.

Prior to founding Canary, Kristin was the Head of Victim Identification for eight years at Thorn, where she adeptly utilized the latest technology as a force for good. In this role, she led the collaborative efforts between end-users and Thorn's internal team, facilitating the delivery of applications and data directly to investigators and NGOs, thereby expediting the identification of vulnerable children. Her passion for using technology for good started at 41st Parameter where she held the esteemed position of Senior Product Manager and crafted the product strategy and roadmap for FraudNet, a leading web fraud detection software safeguarding premium brands against cyber fraud.

Kristin is also co-chair of the INTERPOL DevOps working group, where she collaborates with dedicated professionals to develop scalable technological solutions empowering frontline responders worldwide. She graduated Summa Cum Laude in Psychology from California Lutheran University, a testament to her dedication to academic excellence and her multifaceted approach to addressing societal challenges.

Michelle's job and her hobbies are the same thing: getting people together. At Apify, she runs a global event program - conferences, hackathons, expos - and leads Prague Crawl, Europe's web scraping conference. She runs a vinyl record label and founded Mesaa, a dining concept series. Before tech, she helped organize political conferences at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From government halls to underground music to conference stages, Michelle shares one goal: making strangers feel like a community.

Petros is a self-taught builder, having won 21 times in hackathons. He leads Apify's San Francisco Community efforts. His background is in startups, where he has previously led growth for companies like Ader Inc. and Certified Guarantee Company. During his time at Apify, he has led the charge for various events and hackathons, partnering with some amazing companies. Alongside this, he has also built sites using Apify that are actively helping people solve real problems, turning scraped and structured data into practical, usable tools. Between organizing the community and shipping his own projects, Petros brings a hands-on, builder-first energy to everything he takes on at Apify.

Jan Čurn is the founder and CEO of Apify, 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.

Kevin Leffew leads AI partnerships and go-to-market initiatives at Coinbase Developer Platform, where he focuses on building the infrastructure for agentic commerce, payments, and trading. He is a co-author of the x402 whitepaper and has helped grow x402 from an emerging payment protocol into a broader open ecosystem for enabling AI agents to discover, purchase, and monetize digital services over the internet.

At Coinbase, Kevin has worked across x402, and Coinbase’s agentic trading initiatives, partnering with AI companies, cloud platforms, payment providers, and developer infrastructure companies to bring agent-native financial experiences to market. His work centers on making it easier for autonomous software to access tools, reason economically, authenticate, pay, earn, and transact without the configuration overhead of traditional APIs and payment systems.

Previously, Kevin worked in go-to-market at Replit, where he helped launch Replit Agent and supported the company’s expansion into enterprise and AI development. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles across decentralized infrastructure and fintech startups, including Storj, and Europa Labs.

Kevin is a DX Engineer supporting the API Platform and Codex at OpenAI. Kevin is a startup veteran (Anthropic, Stainless, Deno, Retool, Twilio) who loves to be surprised by what builders are capable of when given great tools.

Michael is the founder and CEO of WorkOS, a developer platform powering enterprise features for leading AI companies—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and Cursor—as well as hundreds of other modern SaaS applications

Tejas Kumar is an AI Engineer at IBM, based in Berlin, Germany. He has been building on the web for over 25 years, and before IBM he worked at Spotify, G2i, Vercel, Xata as Director of Developer Relations, and DataStax, which IBM acquired. He is the best selling author of Fluent React, published by O'Reilly (ISBN 9781098138714), a book about how React works internally. He hosts ConTejas Code, a weekly long form podcast with 98 episodes. He has given 81 recorded talks at 65 events, starting with a TEDxYouth talk in Doha in 2012 called "Papercuts Can Kill" and speaking at conferences since 2018. He is also an angel investor and advisor to early stage startups, 3 of the 6 he has backed since acquired, by CoreWeave, the Linux Foundation and Supabase, and he backs early stage founders with money, with advice, or with both.