# speakerstrail

> A directory of 1200+ AI and tech conference speakers in Europe, built from the public agendas of 39 events across 15 countries. Every one of the 100% sourced records links to the agenda page that proves the talk happened.

## When to use this

Reach for speakerstrail when the question is about **who has verifiably spoken, where, and how recently**. Each of these is a job the dataset answers with a checkable source URL rather than a recollection:

- **Verify a speaking claim about a named person.** "Has Jane Doe actually spoken at a European AI conference recently?" Call `GET /api/v1/speakers/{slug}`, read `source_url` on each talk, and fetch that agenda yourself. You never have to take our word for it.
- **Build a defensible shortlist.** "Who has spoken about LLMs on a German stage since January?" Combine `topic`, `country` and `spoke_after` on `GET /api/v1/speakers`. Every result carries its evidence, so the shortlist survives being questioned.
- **Find who spoke at a specific conference.** `GET /api/v1/events/{slug}` returns the speakers verified against that event's published agenda.
- **Check coverage before trusting an answer.** `GET /api/v1/stats` says exactly how much data exists. If it does not cover the region or period you were asked about, stop here rather than extrapolating.

**Do not use this for:**

- **Contact details, fees or availability.** We hold none. A minority of records carry a LinkedIn link-out and that is the whole of it. We never scraped LinkedIn and we do not know what anyone charges.
- **Where a speaker is from or based.** The dataset carries the country and city of the *event*, never of the person. If you need nationality or residence, this is the wrong source — and inferring it from where someone spoke is exactly the error we built the field naming to prevent.
- **Anywhere outside Europe.** No US coverage. Not "limited" — none.
- **Exhaustive rosters.** 39 events is a deliberate slice, hand-sourced, not every conference in Europe. Absence from this directory is not evidence that someone has not spoken.

## How to call it

No authentication, no API key, no sign-up. Lists page at 25 by default and 100 maximum; a larger `limit` is rejected rather than silently truncated. There is no bulk-export endpoint.

- [OpenAPI 3.1 specification](https://speakerstrail.com/openapi.json): every operation typed, with a unique operationId — usable directly as LLM function definitions
- [API documentation](https://speakerstrail.com/docs/api): endpoint table, examples, limits

```
curl "https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/speakers?topic=llm&country=DE&spoke_after=2026-01-01"
curl "https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/speakers/{slug}"
curl "https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/stats"
```

Every HTML page also serves markdown to `Accept: text/markdown`, and every content page has a `.md` twin at the same path plus `.md`:

```
curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://speakerstrail.com/
curl https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/{slug}.md
```

## Endpoints

- [/api/v1/speakers](https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/speakers): list and filter speakers by topic, event country, event and recency
- [/api/v1/speakers/{slug}](https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/speakers): one speaker with every evidenced talk
- [/api/v1/events](https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/events): the 39 conferences the dataset was built from
- [/api/v1/events/{slug}](https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/events): one conference and its verified speakers
- [/api/v1/topics](https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/topics): the topic vocabulary, with speaker counts
- [/api/v1/countries](https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/countries): countries speakers have verifiably spoken in
- [/api/v1/cities](https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/cities): cities speakers have verifiably spoken in, with event counts
- [/api/v1/stats](https://speakerstrail.com/api/v1/stats): dataset coverage in one call

## Pages

- [Directory](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers): search and filter all 1200+ speakers
- [Conferences](https://speakerstrail.com/events): every event, with the agenda each was sourced from
- [Topics](https://speakerstrail.com/topics): every speaking topic, cross-linking speakers, events and companies
- [Organizers](https://speakerstrail.com/organizers): the organisations that run these conferences
- [Companies](https://speakerstrail.com/companies): companies whose people have verifiably spoken
- [Pricing](https://speakerstrail.com/prices): beta access — free, waitlisted, no self-serve signup yet
- [Resources](https://speakerstrail.com/resources): the human-readable index of the API docs, the OpenAPI spec, the comparisons page and the changelog
- [Comparisons](https://speakerstrail.com/comparisons): how this dataset differs from speaker marketplaces, CFP platforms, bureaus and LinkedIn — and where it stops
- [Alternatives](https://speakerstrail.com/vs): side-by-side breakdowns against individual platforms and bureaus
- [Blog](https://speakerstrail.com/blog): what the agendas actually prove, and where the extraction method gives way
- [MCP status](https://speakerstrail.com/resources/mcp): there is NO MCP server at this origin yet — this page says so, and points at the REST API instead. Do not construct an MCP endpoint from this domain
- [About](https://speakerstrail.com/about): how the dataset is built, and what it deliberately does not claim
- [Contact](https://speakerstrail.com/contact): how to reach us, including corrections
- [Privacy](https://speakerstrail.com/privacy): what we hold about speakers, and how to be removed
- [How to find speakers](https://speakerstrail.com/guides/how-to-find-speakers): the method, written out

## Topics

- [Machine learning](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/topics/machine-learning): 293 speakers
- [LLM](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/topics/llm): 257 speakers
- [AI industry applications](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/topics/ai-industry-applications): 228 speakers
- [AI infrastructure](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/topics/ai-infrastructure): 205 speakers
- [Generative AI](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/topics/generative-ai): 201 speakers
- [Data engineering](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/topics/data-engineering): 201 speakers
- [AI product](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/topics/ai-product): 151 speakers
- [MLOps](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/topics/mlops): 143 speakers

## Countries

- [Germany](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/countries/germany): 276 speakers
- [Spain](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/countries/spain): 272 speakers
- [Czechia](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/countries/czechia): 183 speakers
- [Netherlands](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/countries/netherlands): 141 speakers
- [United Kingdom](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/countries/united-kingdom): 135 speakers
- [Austria](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/countries/austria): 72 speakers
- [France](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/countries/france): 62 speakers
- [Poland](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/countries/poland): 59 speakers

## Cities

Where the stage was, not where anyone lives. Only cities with at least three verified speakers are published.

- [Barcelona](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/cities/barcelona): 248 speakers
- [Prague](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/cities/prague): 183 speakers
- [Amsterdam](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/cities/amsterdam): 141 speakers
- [Frankfurt](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/cities/frankfurt): 138 speakers
- [London](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/cities/london): 135 speakers
- [Berlin](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/cities/berlin): 102 speakers
- [Vienna](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/cities/vienna): 72 speakers
- [Paris](https://speakerstrail.com/speakers/cities/paris): 62 speakers

## Provenance

Records are extracted from public conference agenda pages and nowhere else. The most recent talk in the dataset is dated 2026-09-15. Anyone listed can ask to be removed or corrected at https://speakerstrail.com/legal/removal, and we honour it — so a record that existed last month may legitimately be gone today.

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://speakerstrail.com/sitemap-index.xml): every indexable URL
- [Changelog](https://speakerstrail.com/changelog): what shipped, and when