We're thrilled to announce our next speaker batch for Local-First Conf 2026.
Sync Conf
@syncconf.bsky.social
Sync Conf is a boutique conference on the future of real-time, collaborative, agentic software development. 12th Nov2025 in SF. https://syncconf.dev/ | View talks: https://tinyurl.com/mr3yzxea
"AI is really shaking up everything. I think this does not make local-first at all, less relevant. I think this is, as for most things, a huge tailwind. " @schickling.dev
Tickets for Local-First Conf 2026 are now on sale July 12–14 · Berlin · 300 people · single track Theme: user empowerment in an age of fluid software. We're going beyond CRDTs and sync. If you're building for user agency, this is your conference. Tickets live now → localfirstconf.com
The first batch of talks are published, the remaining will be published by end of week. 🌟 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Thanks to everyone who came out to Sync Conf last week and made it a great first year.
Frank McSherry @frankmcsherry.bsky.social of Materialize with a great talk on how you can use virtual time to model data computation that efficiently sync inputs to outputs.
Great talk from Lee Bryon from OpenAI explaining how they approached the problem of document editing in ChatGPT Canvas, with an architecture that allows syncing state with an AI model.
Awesome intro to Sync Conf from @thruflo.com, asking the question where sync fits in this fast changing world of AI. Sync, as it happens, is a key component to this bright future!
All spots are gone. See you all tomorrow. Doors open at 8:30 ⚡
Honored for the opportunity to talk about our work
Sync Conf@syncconf.bsky.social · 10mo agoIrakli and Chris (independent researchers) will show us reactive UIs via declarative Datalog rules and sync through commodity blob stores like S3. Irakli and Chris' research perspective should make a nice constrast to the commercial focus for the rest of the conf.
Come see four different perspectives on sync duke it out live on stage.
Sync Conf@syncconf.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe panel at Sync Conf 2025 brings together @tannerlinsley.com, @jamescowling.dev, @schickling.dev and @aaronboodman.com for a deep dive into challenges and tradeoffs between the technical approaches being explored in sync today.
The panel at Sync Conf 2025 brings together @tannerlinsley.com, @jamescowling.dev, @schickling.dev and @aaronboodman.com for a deep dive into challenges and tradeoffs between the technical approaches being explored in sync today.
It was agonizing to choose from among the 34 excellent submissions, but here are the four talks selected from our CFP process!
Convex @convex.dev is quickly becoming the go-to sync engine for startups building AI and agentic apps. At Sync Conf 2025, co-founder James Cowling @jamescowling.dev will share how they’re making it happen.
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social helped shape how we build software with the 12-Factor App and the Local-First Manifesto. At Sync Conf 2025, he’ll look ahead to the next wave: agentic, malleable, real-time software.
James Arthur @thruflo.com is building @electric-sql.com, the sync engine behind @tanstack.com and @elixir-lang.org. At Sync Conf 2025, he’ll kick things off with an intro on why sync matters for AI apps and agentic systems, including a demo of sync-based software in action.
Host of Latent Space and AI engineering master @swyx.io is joining us at Sync Conf 2025. Tastemaker, product builder, and voice behind AI Engineering Summit.
Sunil Pai from Cloudflare will present at Sync Conf 2025. Sunil is the creator of Partykit, and now working on edge computing with D1 + Durable Objects. He'll speak about how sync engines are a perfect fit for building agentic AI apps.
Carl Sverre @f0a.org of SQLSync is speaking at Sync Conf 2025 on partial replication. He takes a slightly contrarian view: no CRDTs, but instead block-level replication. Hear all about it on Nov 12.3
Welcome Frank McSherry @frankmcsherry.bsky.social to Sync Conf 2025. Pioneer of sync technology, inventor of Differential Dataflow, and founder of @materialize.com, Frank will trace the evolution of sync and stream processing.
With rising user expectations set by apps like Linear, Figma, and Notion, the next generation of software will need sync engine technologies to meet the new quality baseline." @schickling.dev
"From developer experience to user agency and data ownership. Different motivations unite into a stronger coalition for local-first tech." @adamwiggins.bsky.social
"Sync is predicted to be a key technology for the coming years. This one-day, 300-person gathering could be remembered as a seminal conference. That group of people who all went on to do amazing things. " @thruflo.com
How can sync engines and local-first tech cross-pollinate with building agentic systems?" @thruflo.com. A Sync Conf topic.
"Should companies build their own sync engine or rely on off-the-shelf solutions?" @schickling.dev. A topic at Sync Conf.