Sarah McKenna

CEO at Sequentum

Sarah McKenna has 25 years of experience as an engineering manager running automated operations. She took a leadership role in 2017 at Sequentum, an enterprise software company with a best-of-breed web data extraction platform. Sarah is also the technical advisor on the SIIA/FISD Alt Data Council for published guidance on web data compliance. She used the Sequentum Operating Guidelines as a framework to drive alignment on how to manage risk in web data operations for US Securities Exchange Commission-governed data buyers, data vendors, and the legal teams. 

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Web Scraping at Scale with Quality and Compliance

Building and managing your web scraping infrastructure is a challenging task. But when it comes to scaling your data gathering projects, for example, from hundreds to millions of requests per day, even more difficulties and unexpected challenges appear. This presentation will cover almost every aspect of web scraping at scale – from the technical details to the legal risks.

Sarah will cover a variety of topics, including:  

  • How to scale a web scraping operation with reliability & compliance;

  • What to look for in an automation framework;

  • How to define, measure and track KPIs for a public web data extraction operation to ensure quality;

  • Key compliance concerns & how to mitigate legal risks. 

Meet OxyCon 2022 speakers

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. 

Eivydas Vilčinskas

Technical Team Lead @ Oxylabs

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Alex Reese

Partner @ Farella Braun + Martel

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Julius Zaleskis

CEO @ Dataistic

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Glen De Cauwsemaecker

Lead Crawler Engineer @ OTA Insight

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Allen O'Neill

CEO/CTO @ The DataWorks

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Ondra Urban

COO @ Apify

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Paul Morgan

Data Collections Team Lead @ Datasembly

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Karsten Madsen

CEO @ Morningscore

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Denas Grybauskas

Head of Legal @ Oxylabs

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Gabija Fatėnaitė

Moderator @ OxyCon

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Martynas Saulius

Python Developer @ Oxylabs

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Vaidotas Šedys

Moderator @ OxyCon

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Sanaea Daruwalla

General Counsel @ Zyte

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Tadas Malinauskas

Python Developer @ Oxylabs

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Ovidijus Balkauskas

Linux Systems Engineer @ Oxylabs

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Eivydas Vilčinskas

Technical Team Lead @ Oxylabs

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Alex Reese

Partner @ Farella Braun + Martel

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Julius Zaleskis

CEO @ Dataistic

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Glen De Cauwsemaecker

Lead Crawler Engineer @ OTA Insight

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Allen O'Neill

CEO/CTO @ The DataWorks

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Ondra Urban

COO @ Apify

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Paul Morgan

Data Collections Team Lead @ Datasembly

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Karsten Madsen

CEO @ Morningscore

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