Web Data for Startups #02 — Search, Research & Intelligence

Finding information is only the first step. Search, research, and intelligence products need to turn a changing web into results that people can trust and use to make decisions. The second Web Data for Startups evening brings together founders building vertical search, research assistants, market intelligence, and other products powered by public web data. Join HackerSquad and Bright Data for a few short startup demos, followed by a panel on the data and product choices behind useful search and intelligence tools. We'll focus on what teams are building, the information they need, and how they turn that information into a product people return to. After the panel, meet the demo teams and other founders and engineers over an extended networking session. What we'll explore Finding and combining useful sources for a specific market, workflow, or research question. Keeping information fresh and traceable while evaluating relevance, coverage, and answer quality. Building repeatable data pipelines and managing the cost of serving research and intelligence at scale. Who this is for Founders, product builders, and engineers working on search, research, competitive intelligence, market monitoring, and AI products that depend on current web information. Bring a product, a difficult data question, or lessons from your users. Bright Data Startup Program Demo teams will also have an opportunity to be selected for Bright Data's Startup Program, which offers $20,000 in Bright Data credits to help scale their product. The series brings together founders building with public web data and the people working on the infrastructure behind those products. Schedule All times are Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles). 5:00 PM — Doors Open: Check in, meet fellow builders, and settle in. 5:45 PM — Programming Begins: A few short demos, with builders showing their work and sharing the data and engineering decisions behind it. 6:15 PM — Panel Discussion: A conversation with practitioners about the evening's topic, followed by audience questions. 7:00 PM — Networking: Continue the conversation with founders, engineers, researchers, and the teams behind the demos. 8:30 PM — Doors Close. Location and registration Join us at Bright Data — Web Data Loft, 625 2nd St, San Francisco, CA 94107. Hosted by HackerSquad and presented by Bright Data. Attendance is free, with registration subject to approval. Demo teams and panelists will be announced.