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Connect with a rapidly-growing Local-First community. Join us for our other conf @syncconf.bsky.social‬ happening Nov 12, 2025 in San Francisco.

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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.
October 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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It was agonizing to choose from among the 34 excellent submissions, but here are the four talks selected from our CFP process!
October 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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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.
September 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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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
September 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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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.
September 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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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
September 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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"From developer experience to user agency and data ownership. Different motivations unite into a stronger coalition for local-first tech." @adamwiggins.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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"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
September 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Sync seems to be having a moment among web developers!
September 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"Should companies build their own sync engine or rely on off-the-shelf solutions?" @schickling.dev. A topic at Sync Conf.
September 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Our second #special is out.

Following the great success of @localfirstconf.com in Berlin, we're excited to share more about the vision for SyncConf 2025 in SF.

Full episode links and show notes in the comments.
September 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Lee Byron @leebyron.bsky.social is the co-creator of #GraphQL, now at #OpenAI. He'll be speaking at Sync Conf 2025, breaking down how sync powers the next wave of agentic systems.
August 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Notion redefined how teams collaborate. At Sync Conf 2025, Angelique Nehmzow will reveal the sync engine behind Notion’s offline-first, multi-user experience, and why it’s been key to their success.
August 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Early bird tickets are gone! We’re counting down to the talks, the ideas, and the conversations in SF.
August 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Tanner Linsley (@tannerlinsley.com) creator of @tanstack.com, is bringing his vision for app dev to Sync Conf 2025.

From TanStack DB to mainstream DX, he’ll share where sync belongs in the next wave of software.
August 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.
August 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Watch @devagr.bsky.social talk about sync engine's best friend: Fine-grained rendering. youtu.be/YQT26cnCKqo?...
Dev Agrawal - Sync engine's best friend: fine-grained rendering
We all love sync engines for their ability to simplify state management and enable instant UI interactions, but the secret third benefit is the potential of ...
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June 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Watch @patternist.xyz talk about Beelay, a (reasonably) generic encrypted sync protocol for CRDTs. youtu.be/neRuBAPAsE0?...
Alex Good - Beelay, a (reasonably) generic encrypted sync protocol for CRDTs
For the last six months the Automerge team has been working on implementing end-to-end encryption and access control for local first applications as part of ...
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June 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Watch @expede.wtf talk about Safe in the Keyhive: Local-first access control with E2EE and capabilities youtu.be/iLp2xBMud10?...
Brooklyn Zelenka - Safe in the Keyhive: Local-first access control with E2EE and capabilities
Traditional auth systems like OAuth depend on the network boundary to secure your data from prying eyes. We have no such luxury in local-first: your data can...
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June 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Watch @timoth.ee talk about building a Yjs sync provider using Cloudflare workers. youtu.be/CDNGdrJajRc?...
Timo Wilhelm - Building a Yjs sync provider using Cloudflare Workers
Using Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects to run a serverless WebSocket backend for Yjs, a library of data structures for building collaborative software ...
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June 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Watch the panel consisting of ‪@adamwiggins.bsky.social‬, @martin.kleppmann.com, ‪@aaronboodman.com‬, and Peter van Hardenberg answer the big questions of the Local first. youtu.be/86NmEerklTs?...
Panel Discussion - The big questions of Local First
This panel discussion brings together Adam Wiggins, Martin Kleppmann, Aaron Boodman, and Peter van Hardenberg to discuss the big questions before the Local F...
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June 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM