Jan Curn
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026Apify5 talks
Appearances by year
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 | AI Engineer New York 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Agents can pay. So why don’t they? as Apify The payment rails for agents are now readily available, but almost nobody uses them. The problem is not simply that people do not trust agents with money. It is…Show lessThe payment rails for agents are now readily available, but almost nobody uses them. The problem is not simply that people do not trust agents with money. It is that the basic one-shot payment flow handles only the easiest kind of purchase. x402’s `exact` scheme and MPP’s `charge` intent require a fixed price before execution begins, which only covers simple API calls. | |
| Jun 29, 2026 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | MCP doesn’t suck — your agent does as Apify | |
| Jun 29, 2026 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | expo session | x402 isn’t good (yet) as Apify | |
| Apr 2, 2026 | MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | speaker | Code Mode Is Best Served in the Shell as Apify MCP adoption is growing, but most agent integrations still treat tools as a prompt-time API, burning context tokens on tool definitions, re-copying intermediate…Show lessMCP adoption is growing, but most agent integrations still treat tools as a prompt-time API, burning context tokens on tool definitions, re-copying intermediate results, and losing accuracy along the way. This improper use also leads to unfair criticism of MCP itself. To address this problem,... | |
| Jun 3, 2025 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | The rise of the agentic economy on the shoulders of MCP as Apify Thanks to MCP and all the MCP server directories, agents can now autonomously discover new tools and other agents. This lays down the foundation for the future…Show lessThanks to MCP and all the MCP server directories, agents can now autonomously discover new tools and other agents. This lays down the foundation for the future agentic economy, where businesses will sell to autonomous agents (B2A) and eventually agents will sell to other agents (A2A). | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denys Linkov | 3 | — | 2026 |
| George Cameron | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Harald Kirschner | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Hassan El Mghari | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Kevin Madura | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Laurie Voss | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Nick Nisi | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Philipp Schmid | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Stephen Chin | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Will Brown | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Zach Blumenfeld | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Zack Proser | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Adam Azzam | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Addy Osmani | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Adit Abraham | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.