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Conference Speaker Signals

Know when prospects take the stage. Speaker announcements and post-event coverage across 10,000+ B2B conferences, with session titles, topics, dates, and full contact resolution, refreshed monthly.

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Events tracked
10,000+
Signal subtypes
1
Update frequency
Monthly
Industries covered
40+
Delivery
REST API, GCS Push, Generate Insights API, Flat File
Format
JSONL or Parquet
Bucket
gs://autobound-conference/

What Are Conference Speaker Signals?

Conference speaker signals detect when a monitored contact is announced as a speaker, or confirmed as having presented, at one of 10,000+ B2B conferences, summits, and industry events. Each signal includes the event name, dates, location, session title and description, session type, topics, and a 0-1 relevance score, refreshed monthly.

Speaking slots are high-value moments on both sides of the event. Before it, the speaker's topic tells you exactly what their company wants to be known for. After it, referencing the specific argument they made on stage cuts through the flood of generic congratulations, which is why post-session outreach converts better than almost any other trigger.

Recent records

One subtype: Conference talkconferenceSpeaker

  • Snyksnyk.ioAug 21, 2026

    Brian Vermeer (Java Champion | Staff Developer Advocate, Snyk) at DevTalks Cluj-Napoca 2025.

    Person
    Brian Vermeer, Java Champion | Staff Developer Advocate, Snyk
    Conference
    DevTalks Cluj-Napoca 2025
    Date
    Aug 21, 2026
    View the full signal
  • Googlegoogle.comAug 21, 2026

    George Pătrășcan (Software Engineering Manager, Google) at DevTalks Cluj-Napoca 2025.

    Person
    George Pătrășcan, Software Engineering Manager, Google
    Conference
    DevTalks Cluj-Napoca 2025
    Date
    Aug 21, 2026
    View the full signal
  • ZoomInfozoominfo.comAug 11, 2026

    Awinash Sinha (Chief Digital & Information Officer, ZoomInfo) at AI Risk Summit 2026.

    Person
    Awinash Sinha, Chief Digital & Information Officer, ZoomInfo
    Conference
    AI Risk Summit 2026
    Date
    Aug 11, 2026
    View the full signal

From a speaker list to your next move

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  1. 0103

    Prospects take the stage

    We find conference speaker announcements, match each speaker to a contact, and keep the session, topics and date.

    1. gartner.com
    gartner.comGartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026Apr 28, 2026

    From Notebook to Production: Closing the ML Deployment Gap

    How lakehouse architecture lets data teams move ML models from experimentation to production without tooling sprawl.

    Extracted
    Databricksdatabricks.comcompanySarah ChencontactConference talksignal_subtype
  2. 0203

    You get one clean record

    Each record names the person, their title and company, labels the event, and links back to the source.

    1. Signal record

    Databricks

    databricks.comData Engineering

    Sarah ChenVP of Product

    Conference talkconferenceSpeaker

    Sarah Chen speaks at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026: From Notebook to Production: Closing the ML Deployment Gap

    “How lakehouse architecture lets data teams move ML models from experimentation to production without tooling sprawl.”
    Date
    Apr 28, 2026
    Location
    Orlando, FL
    Detected
    May 4, 2026
    Source
    gartner.com

    signal_id 9d6f2c81…

  3. 0303

    Act on it where you work

    Send it to Slack, write it to your CRM, or give it to an AI agent.

    When
    A target exec speaks at an event you attend
    Do
    Book an on-site meeting before `conference_date`
    1. Your team acts
    or your own code
    #account-signals

    Signal alert from your workflow

    Sarah Chen, Databricks· Conference talk

    Sarah Chen speaks at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026: From Notebook to Production: Closing the ML Deployment Gap

    Play: Book an on-site meeting before conference_date

    Start the playOpen the source

    Illustration. The record fields are real.

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How we build this signal

How we build each conference speaker signal

Each run finds conferences that recently ended and records who spoke, where they work and how to reach them.

Event window
8-38 days after
Profile match floor
7 / 10
  1. 01

    Discovery

    We read two public conference calendars and keep events that ended 8 to 38 days before the run. The same event listed in both calendars is merged by name and start date.

  2. 02

    Speaker extraction

    When an event publishes its speakers on Sessionize, we read that page directly with no model. Otherwise a model sorts the event site's pages and extracts each speaker's name, title, company and bio.

  3. 03

    Company resolution

    The company comes from the speaker's company field, then their tagline, then their bio, and each unique company name is resolved to a domain once.

  4. 04

    Profile match

    A web search finds candidate LinkedIn profiles, and a model scores the best match out of 10, where 10 is an exact name and current company. A match under 7 is rejected, so a common name does not get a stranger's profile.

  5. 05

    Identity gate and delivery

    A speaker with neither a company domain nor a verified LinkedIn profile does not ship. Each record is one speaker at one conference, keyed on the conference and speaker name, so a rerun never delivers it twice.

Conference Speaker Signal Schema

Each conference speaker signal includes event metadata, topic classification, and full contact resolution.

{
  "signal_id": "9d6f2c81-4a35-4e97-b208-1c5e8f3a7d46",
  "signal_type": "conference-speaker",
  "signal_subtype": "conferenceSpeaker",
  "detected_at": "2026-05-04T09:00:00Z",
  "association": "contact",
  "contact": {
    "name": "Sarah Chen",
    "email": "s***@databricks.com",  // match on email
    "job_title": "VP of Product",
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/in/sarahchen-databricks"  // or match on LinkedIn URL
  },
  "company": {
    "name": "Databricks",
    "domain": "databricks.com",
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/company/databricks",
    "industries": ["Data Engineering", "Machine Learning", "Cloud Analytics"],
    "employee_count_low": 5001,
    "employee_count_high": 10000,
    "description": "Unified data analytics and AI platform..."
  },
  "data": {
    "conference_name": "Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026",
    "conference_url": "https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/data-analytics-us",
    "conference_date": "2026-04-28",
    "conference_end_date": "2026-05-01",
    "conference_location": "Orlando, FL",
    "conference_topics": ["Data Engineering", "AI/ML", "Analytics", "Data Governance"],
    "conference_estimated_size": 5000,
    "session_title": "From Notebook to Production: Closing the ML Deployment Gap",
    "session_description": "How lakehouse architecture lets data teams move ML models from experimentation to production without tooling sprawl.",
    "session_type": "keynote",
    "session_track": "Data Engineering",
    "session_recording_url": null,
    "co_speakers": [],
    "speaker_bio": "Sarah Chen is VP of Product at Databricks, leading product strategy for the Lakehouse platform.",
    "relevance_score": 0.94,  // 0.0-1.0; higher = more actionable for outreach
    "contact_resolved": true
  }
}

Measured coverage

What's inside Conference Speaker Signals

A dated snapshot counted in our production database, not a live count. Minimums, not ceilings.

Coverage for all 35 signal types →
1,353
Contacts with fresh data per month
3-month average, records through Jun 30, 2026
1,583
Records created per month
90-day average, records through Jun 30, 2026

Top subtypes

1 total
Conference Speaker14K · 100%
Staff1.2K · 13%
C-Suite674 · 7.6%
VP303 · 3.4%
Manager248 · 2.8%
Director167 · 1.9%
Consultant13 · 0.1%
Technology, Software, Information Technology812 · 9.1%
Business Management679 · 7.6%
Engineering219 · 2.5%
Executive99 · 1.1%
Information Technology95 · 1.1%
Product90 · 1.0%
Education58 · 0.7%

Join keys

fill rate
Contact LinkedIn92%
Contact name100%
Email32%
Records measured 13,525+Contacts reached 8,878+

See for yourself

Check out sample data: real Conference Speaker records with the same fields the API returns.

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“Autobound's API streamlined our data management, accelerated product development, and improved outreach quality.”
AiSDR Team, Engineering Team, AiSDR

Frequently asked questions

How do you identify conference speakers?
We monitor event websites, official agendas, speaker announcement pages, LinkedIn posts, and post-event coverage. Speaker-contact matching uses name + company co-reference with confidence scoring.
Are virtual conferences included?
Yes. Virtual, hybrid, and in-person events are all tracked. Webinars with 500+ registered attendees from major industry organizations are also included.