---
title: "Jan Curn"
category: "people"
role: "Founder & CEO"
company: "Apify"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jancurn/"
twitter: "https://x.com/jancurn"
website: "https://apify.com/jancurn"
blog: "https://blog.apify.com/author/jancurn/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Jan Curn

## Profile
Founder & CEO at [[apify|Apify]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jancurn/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/jancurn)
- [Website](https://apify.com/jancurn)
- [Blog](https://blog.apify.com/author/jancurn/)

## Biography
Founder and CEO of [[apify|Apify]], a popular marketplace of web data tools for AI. He has a lifelong passion for software engineering, earning him an MSc and PhD in computer science, and eventually leading him to found [[apify|Apify]]. Jan is known in San Francisco and Prague tech circles, he talks about software, startups, and AI, and regularly hosts events.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-jan-curn-x402-isn-t-good-yet]] — x402 isn’t good (yet) (2026-07-01, 12:05pm-12:25pm)
- [[2026-07-01-jan-curn-mcp-doesn-t-suck-your-agent-does]] — MCP doesn’t suck — your agent does (2026-07-01, 1:55pm-2:15pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-jan-curn-x402-isn-t-good-yet|x402 isn’t good (yet)]]
- [[2026-07-01-jan-curn-mcp-doesn-t-suck-your-agent-does|MCP doesn’t suck — your agent does]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-blW-lSd5CYQ` — 9 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-blW-lSd5CYQ`: google, maps, intelligence, emerge, runs, actors, compass, data.
- Evidence links for `youtube-blW-lSd5CYQ`: [[youtube-blW-lSd5CYQ]], [[youtube-blW-lSd5CYQ-slides]], [[youtube-blW-lSd5CYQ-dense-slides]], [[youtube-blW-lSd5CYQ-reconstructed-slides]]