A Software Development Team Lead @ idealista
Juan Riaza is a Software Development Team Lead at idealista, Southern Europe's leading real estate platform. With deep technical expertise, Juan leads a team dedicated to web scraping and data engineering, providing high-quality, actionable data to support idealista's internal needs and products. Beyond his day-to-day work, Juan is an active figure in the local tech community: he regularly gives technical talks and shares his insights at networking events. He is especially passionate about reverse engineering, and when he's not working, you can often find him vibe-coding from the beach.

Public web data gathering has never been harder because anti-bot solutions become more complex by the day. Mastering advanced unblocking strategies is no longer optional; it has become crucial to ensure scraping reliability and efficiency. In this panel discussion, five experts from different corners of the web scraping industry will walk through the evolving tools and techniques that help them stay one step ahead of modern anti-bot systems.
Tune into the panel discussion to:
Learn about evolving anti-bot tactics and how to overcome them with the help of AI & reverse engineering;
Get tips on how to optimize scraping for gathering web data on a large scale without blocks;
Discover how websites are transforming the rules of data access with innovative models like pay-per-crawl and others.

Coming from different industries and backgrounds but united in common passion and aspirations, these web scraping experts will share their experiences and answer your questions.