Sync Conf

Local-First Conf 2026 tickets are now on sale. July 12–14 · Berlin · 350 people · single track This year's theme: user empowerment in an age of fluid software. We're going beyond CRDTs to explore malleable software, peer-to-peer, self-sovereign identity, open-weight models, ATproto, and much more. If you're building for user agency, this is your conference. CFP is open. We want YOUR talk. 👇localfirstconf.com

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All videos are now live! 🔥

The first batch of talks are published, the remaining will be published by end of week. 🌟 youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@tanvirraj @localfirstconf Yes, will publish asap. Our videographer had a Thanksgiving break but back at it this week. Will notify here when they are online.

@sync_conf @localfirstconf will you publish video for this

Thanks to everyone who came out to Sync Conf last week and made it a great first year.

We’re now shifting gears to @localfirstconf 2026 in Berlin. Dates announced soon.

Thanks to @vapiaibusiness for sponsoring. They give developers tools to build natural, production-ready voice agents.

Closing out the first Sync Conf Adam Wiggins @_adamwiggins_ talked about how sync is a pragmatic bridge that gets us to many of the ideals of Local First software for a more enlightened future.

Awesome talk by Sunil Pai @threepointone from @Cloudflare exploring the intersection of sync technology with AI agentic systems, concluding that all agents need a sync engine.

Irakli Gozalishvili and Chris Joel with a fascinating talk exploring how ideas from decades of computer science combine in novel ways to address existing technical challenges in local-first software.

Anselm Eickhoff @anselm_io of @gardendotco gave a great talk on their sync engine @jazz_tools and how as they were creating it they realised they were building a database, but with unique capabilities.

Brilliant panel discussion about sync with @jamesacowling, @kylemathews, @aboodman and @schickling, with insights into sync engine design, DX and what they see as the future of app development.

Conrad Hofmeyr @cahofmeyr with a great overview of the state of the art for using SQLite in the browser with WASM, looking at persistence, cross tab coordination and performance.