Sync Conf is a boutique conference on the future of real-time, collaborative, agentic software development. @localfirstconf is happening 12-14th of July 2026.
San Fransisco
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The first batch of talks are published, the remaining will be published by end of week. 🌟
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Thanks to @vapiaibusiness for sponsoring. They give developers tools to build natural, production-ready voice agents.
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Thanks to @dittolive for supporting Sync Conf. Their peer-to-peer sync tech keeps apps fast and reliable, even offline.
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Thanks to @powersync_ for backing Sync Conf. They make real-time, local-first data sync simple for modern apps.
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Thanks to @jazz_tools for supporting Sync Conf. They’re building AI-native collaboration tools for humans and agents.
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Thanks to @CloudflareDev for supporting Sync Conf. They’re making it easier to build fast, secure, globally distributed agentic apps.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sync "puts humans back in the loop".
Inspiring talk from Shawn Wang @swyx on how agent and sync paradigms are natural complements because it creates a multiplayer experience by default.
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Arushi Bandi with a great talk on the history of the two sync engines that power @figma, why they evolved differently, and a deep-dive on the challenges of scaling one of them: LiveGraph.
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Great talk from @jamesacowling of @convex on how sync is the holy grail app development primitive, with insights into the design of their query language, sync protocol, and database itself to support this primitive.
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Compelling talk and demo by Brendan O'Brian @b_fiive of @n0computer with a cross-sectional look at different approaches to sync, evaluating existing tools from the perspective of both capacity for being network optional.
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Brilliant technical deep dive from @Adam_Fish of @DittoLive into what comes after conflict-free replication, how CRDTs solve conflicts but not query consistency at scale, and a shift to systems that simply converge.
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A really great talk from @carlsverre about his research into using physical replication to enable offline-first applications with partial sync, and he introduced Graft, a system based on this for SQLite.
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Angelique Nehmzow from @NotionHQ with an awesome deep dive into how they enabled offline editing by using CRDTs, the challenges due to the apps block model, and how they did this at scale.
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Frank McSherry @frankmcsherry of @MaterializeInc with a great talk on how you can use virtual time to model data computation that efficiently sync inputs to outputs.
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Awesome intro to Sync Conf from James Arthur @thruflo of @ElectricSQL, asking the question where Sync fits in to this fast changing world of AI.
Sync, as it happens, is a key component to this bright future!
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Welcome to the first Sync Conf!
@devYonz is our MC for this day of great talks about the future of software development.
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Full lineup and schedule for @sync_conf in SF on Nov 12. Link in the 🧵 below 👇
Featuring
👉 @angeliquemari @NotionHQ
👉 @arushibandi @figma
👉 @swyx @cognition
👉 @leeb @OpenAI
👉 @threepointone @Cloudflare
👉 @frankmcsherry @MaterializeInc
👉 @kylemathews @ElectricSQL
👉 @jamesacowling @convex
👉 @aboodman @zero__ms
👉 @schickling @livestoredev
👉 @anselm_io @jazz_tools
👉 @_adamwiggins_ @inkandswitch
👉 @thruflo @ElectricSQL
👉 @cahofmeyr @powersync_
👉 @b_fiive, @carlsverre, @dittolive and @0xcda7a
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The panel at Sync Conf 2025 brings together @tannerlinsley, @jamesacowling , @schickling and @aboodman for a deep dive into challenges and tradeoffs between the technical approaches being explored in sync today.
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Irakli & 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.
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Anselm @anselm_io (@jazz_tools) will help us grapple with the question of when our sync systems become a full-fledged database. Anselm's talks at Local-First Conf have always been crowd-pleasers, so he's sure to delight at Sync Conf.
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Conrad @cahofmeyr (@powersync_ ) covers one of our favorite topics: SQLite, and the latest on using it in your client-side web app. PowerSync has written many excellent blog posts going deep on SQLite for the web, expect to see that expertise on display in this talk.
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Brendan @b_fiive (@n0computer / @iroh_n0 ) will show us the possibility of internet-optional sync using device-to-device connections. True peer-to-peer networking has remained elusive but they claim to have cracked it with their now widely-deployed Rust library.
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Convex @convex is quickly becoming the go-to sync engine for startups building AI and agentic apps. At Sync Conf 2025, co-founder James Cowling (@jamesacowling) will share how they’re making it happen.
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Adam Wiggins @_adamwiggins_ 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.
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James Arthur @thruflo is building @ElectricSQL, the sync engine behind @TanStack DB and @elixirphoenix. 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.
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Host of Latent Space and AI engineering master @swyx is joining us at Sync Conf 2025. Tastemaker, product builder, and voice behind AI Engineering Summit.
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Sunil Pai @threepointone from @Cloudflare will present at Sync Conf 2025.
Sunil is the creator of Partykit and is 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.
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Carl Sverre @carlsverre 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.
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Welcome Frank McSherry @frankmcsherry to Sync Conf 2025. Pioneer of sync technology, inventor of Differential Dataflow, and founder of @MaterializeInc, Frank will trace the evolution of sync and stream processing.
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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
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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_
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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
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How can sync engines and local-first tech cross-pollinate with building agentic systems?" @thruflo. A Sync Conf topic.
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"Should companies build their own sync engine or rely on off-the-shelf solutions?" @schickling. A topic at Sync Conf.
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CFP is closed. We’ll review all submissions, and share the line-up asap. More about the selection process: syncconf.dev/call-for-papers
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Notion redefined how teams collaborate. At Sync Conf 2025, Angelique Nehmzow will reveal the sync engine behind @NotionHQ's offline-first, multi-user experience, and why it’s been key to their success.
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Early bird tickets are gone! We’re counting down to the talks, the ideas, and the conversations in SF.
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Tanner Linsley ( @tannerlinsley ), creator of @tan_stack , 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.
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Figma's realtime sync tech includes LiveGraph, a GraphQL-like data layer powering everything from comments to design file metadata. @arushibandi from the @figma engineering team will take you through the details of LiveGraph and the challenges of an IPO-scale product.
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