Plan Your OxyCon® 2026 Experience: Agenda Is Live!

Donata Norkūnaitė

2026-07-29

2 min read

AI Summary:

This post previews the OxyCon 2026 agenda, an online web scraping conference taking place on September 16, 2026. The event explores the future of web data through sessions on AI-native extraction and autonomous workflows, real-time data and scalable infrastructure, and the evolving landscape of governance, compliance, and strategic value.

OxyCon 2026 is almost here, and the agenda is officially live!

On September 16, get ready to be wowed by an exceptionally strong mix of technical experts, engineering leaders, open-source practitioners, journalists, researchers, and business decision-makers taking the stage.

Eighteen speakers – all from different backgrounds, with different perspectives, but one increasingly important question in mind: What’s next for public web data?

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The agenda at a glance

This year, the conference explores three major forces shaping the web data landscape across 10 insightful sessions. To give you a taste of what’s ahead, here are a few highlights from the lineup.

AI-native extraction & autonomous workflows

As AI moves deeper into the data pipeline, our focus will be on practical applications: where AI can improve extraction, automation, and engineering workflows, where human expertise still matters most, and how to build systems that hold up beyond the demo stage.

Speaker: Yenny Cheung

Vice President of Engineering @ Bluefish AI

Presentation: Agentic Workflows: Patterns Behind Successful AI Automation

Time: 14:25 BST

Governance, compliance & strategic value

Access to public web data is becoming more contested, but web data remains a source of strategic value, making it increasingly important for organizations to understand how to use it meaningfully as the rules around access continue to evolve.

Host: Denas Grybauskas

Chief Governance & Strategy Officer @ Oxylabs

Panel discussion: Is the Web Closing? What It Could Mean for Businesses, Journalists, and Researchers

Panelists: Carl Miller, Paul Bradshow, Krishna Sood

Time: 16:25 BST

Adaptive real-time data & scalable infrastructure

Fast, reliable access to web data depends on infrastructure that can adapt just as quickly. Browserless approaches, modern automation techniques, resilient production systems, and open-source tools all play a role. But can these systems keep up as the web becomes more complex?

Speaker: Tadas Gedgaudas

Founder @ TopYappers

Presentation: Best Open-Source Scraping Repositories of 2026

Time: 17:05 BST

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More to experience live

Last year's OxyCon brought together 4,300+ attendees from 280+ companies.

For the 2026 edition, we're getting ready to welcome an equally broad range of perspectives from across the web data ecosystem, with plenty of opportunities for attendees to connect along the way.

Some content and talks will be exclusive to live viewers, and the live Q&A session will give you the chance to ask questions and interact with speakers in real time.

OxyCon 2026 is getting close

As the biggest online conference dedicated to web scraping, OxyCon takes its role seriously. We’re creating an open space for everyone in the industry to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and make sure we’re not just watching the future happen.

It’s free. It’s online. And everyone attending live will have the chance to enter a raffle for a €1,000 Apple Gift Card! All you need to do is register with a business email, attend on September 16, and stay active during the sessions.

So, if you've been thinking about joining “at some point,” this is probably the point.

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Donata Norkūnaitė

Technical Copywriter

Dedicated to helping people discover and engage with technology, Donata enjoys finding new and creative ways to shape messages that resonate with our readers.

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