Sessionize Speaker Directory Scraper - Conference Speaker Profiles & Contacts

Scrape public speaker profiles from Sessionize.com — the platform used by thousands of tech and industry conferences worldwide. Returns name, tagline, location, full bio, photo URL, LinkedIn and Twitter/X URLs, company website, personal website, topic tags, and area-of-expertise tags. Coverage spans 78,000+ speakers across all 19 industry categories. No proxy required.

What does the Sessionize scraper do?

It pages through each selected Sessionize directory category, collects speaker profile paths, then fetches each speaker's public profile page for bio, social links, topics, and expertise tags. You control which categories to crawl and how many speakers to return.

What data does it extract?

Each record represents one speaker profile:

Field	Type	Description
speaker_name	string	Speaker's full name
tagline	string	Professional tagline or short description
location	string	City and country
bio	string	Full biography from the profile page
photo_url	string	URL to the speaker's photo on Sessionize CDN
linkedin_url	string	LinkedIn profile URL when provided
twitter_url	string	Twitter/X profile URL when provided
company_url	string	Speaker's company website URL when provided
website_url	string	Personal website URL when provided
topics	string	Comma-separated topic tags from the profile
expertise_areas	string	Comma-separated industry expertise tags
profile_url	string	Full URL to the speaker's public Sessionize profile
category	string	Sessionize directory category slug the speaker was found under

Sample output records

ICT category:

{
  "speaker_name": "Anthony D. Atri",
  "tagline": "Principal Storage Architect — distributed systems and ML infrastructure",
  "location": "Boston, USA",
  "bio": "Anthony has worked on hyperscale storage for 20+ years at multiple Fortune-500 infrastructure groups.",
  "photo_url": "https://sessionize.com/image/cdn/anthony-datri.jpg",
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonydatri",
  "twitter_url": "https://twitter.com/anthonydatri",
  "topics": "Ceph, distributed storage, kernel performance, ML infra",
  "expertise_areas": "Information & Communications Technology",
  "profile_url": "https://sessionize.com/anthony-datri",
  "category": "information-communications-technology"
}

Finance category:

{
  "speaker_name": "Maria Santos",
  "tagline": "CFO and fintech regulation advisor",
  "location": "London, UK",
  "bio": "Maria advises mid-market fintechs on regulatory compliance across EU and UK jurisdictions.",
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariasantos",
  "topics": "Open banking, PSD2, AML compliance",
  "expertise_areas": "Finance & Banking",
  "profile_url": "https://sessionize.com/maria-santos",
  "category": "finance-banking"
}

How to use it

Field	Type	Default	Description
categories	array	["information-communications-technology"]	Sessionize category slugs. Empty array = all 19 categories.
maxItems	integer	10	Cap on speakers returned. 0 = no limit.

Valid category slugs: agriculture-food-forestry, arts, business-management, consumer-goods-services, energy-and-basic-resources, environment-and-cleantech, finance-banking, government-social-sector-education, health-medical, humanities-social-sciences, information-communications-technology, law-regulation, manufacturing-industrial-materials, media-information, physical-life-sciences, real-estate-architecture, region-country, transports-logistics, travel-tourism

Single category

{
  "categories": ["finance-banking"],
  "maxItems": 500
}

Multiple categories

{
  "categories": ["health-medical", "law-regulation", "business-management"],
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Full directory

{
  "categories": [],
  "maxItems": 0
}

Use cases

• Event organizers and conference programmers — source vetted speakers by industry, topic, and location for upcoming events
• B2B sales teams — generate outreach lists of subject-matter experts who are already willing to be public-facing
• Speaker bureaus — build representation pipelines filtered by expertise area and social platform presence
• Recruiters — identify senior practitioners by what they present on, not just their resume
• Podcasters and content marketers — find guests with established credibility in a specific topic area

FAQ

Does this scrape private or paywalled data? No. The actor only touches the public speakers directory and publicly listed profile pages. It does not access organizer-only views, session submissions, or any data behind authentication. Fields that a speaker chose not to publish will not appear in the output.

Can I filter by location or topic? Category-level filtering is available at input. Location and topic come back as fields on every record — a downstream filter on location or topics gets you the slice you need.

Does this actor need proxies? No. Sessionize serves the directory and profile pages publicly with reasonable rate limits. The actor paces requests within those limits.

Output is available in JSON, CSV, and Excel via the Apify dataset export panel.