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"Powering offline-first forestry in Europe's wilds" Alexander Thiele delivering a great talk looking at the challenges faced when building a synchronization engine in Flutter.

"5 years of P2P web browser development" Mauve Signweaver with a great talk about the Agregore web browser, how it works, and how it's evolved over the past five years of development.

"The disappearing framework, and many concepts you don't need with Local First" Nate Wienert with a talk making the case for why shifting data into a library makes for better UX, and a simpler framework.

"How sync engines simplify the local first stack" Nikita Prokopov of Instant DB delivering a great talk on the complexities of traditional stack, and how a sync engine makes development easier.

"Why Local First matters to businesses" Adam Fish delivering a great talk on how local-first is transforming how businesses operate, improving revenue through higher uptime, streamlining operations by reducing dependencies.

"Local First & social software in the era of LLMs" Zhanna Sharipova with a great talk on the lessons learned from Anytype's journey from productivity to social software.

"The last mile of Local First" @jessmart.in on data ownership, local first’s last mile problem. Get this right and users control their data across applications forever.

"Local First & social software in the era of LLMs" Eileen Wagner of @inkandswitch.com with her great insights into the UX design challenges with local first software and AI.

"Local-first OS" Seph Gentle @seph.bsky.social with an incredible talk on how we should create an ecosystem that breaks down data silos via a local first operating system.

"15 years of Local First: a best-of report from the field" Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es is opening day two of the conference with an incredible overview of being at the forefront of local first software with his work on CouchDB and PouchDB.

"Sync engine's best friend: fine-grained rendering" Dev Agrawal @devagr.bsky.social with an awesome talk about how sync engines allow fine grained reactivity all the way from the server to the UI.

"Beelay, a (reasonably) generic encrypted sync protocol for CRDTs" Alex Good @patternist.xyz presented how to end-to-end encrypt CRDTs using Beelay from @inkandswitch.com.

"Safe in the Keyhive: Local-first access control with E2EE and capabilities" Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf‬ with an awesome presentation of the work from @inkandswitch building Keyhole, a local-first access control and encryption system.

Introducing TanStack DB @thruflo.com with a great presentation introducing a new front end @tanstack.com library to help progressively adopt sync in any app, with any backend.

"Building a Yjs sync provider using Cloudflare Workers" Timo Wilhelm with a brilliant presentation on how you can use @cloudflare.social Durable Objects to build a sync provider for Yjs.

"The big questions of Local First" Incredible insights from @adamwiggins.bsky.social, @pvh.ca, @aaronboodman.com and @martin.kleppmann.com in our discussion panel. The ideals of Local First, where AI fits in, and how important offline support is.

"CRDTs as a temporal data structure" @paulbutler.org gave a brilliant talk, explaining how to use the Yjs CRDT toolkit to store temporal data.

"Building a synchronous experience with asynchronous data" @artman.bsky.social gave a great talk about how Linear maintains a synchronous api, with the DX their devs love, when lazy loading data from the server.

"Learn just enough about Chrome built-in AI to be productive" @tomayac.com gave us an exciting tour of the built in AI tools available to developers in Chrome, and how you can build a Local First AI app with SQLite in the browser.

"Local First is accidentally perfect for the AI age" Great talk from @anselm.io of @jazz.tools on how AI and Local First software are the perfect partners.

"Collaborative text editing without CRDTs or OT" Awesome talk from @mweidner.bsky.social on how you don't need CRDTs to build collaborative text editing.

"How LiveStore is using the event-sourcing architecture as the foundation for its sync engine" @schickling.dev‬ shared his insights from building ‪@livestore.dev‬ along with announcing that it is now open source 🚀🥳

ZVM - Zero View Management @aaronboodman.com introduced the incredible tech that enables the zerosync.dev sync engine to almost instantaneously update realtime queries.

Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me gave an awesome key note introducing Playbit - a new operating system & development environment which encourages playful learning, building & sharing of local-first software on a personal scale.

Welcome to Local-First Conf 2025! 🚀🥳 Chad Fowler is back to host the talks, and opened with an awesome introduction.

We're counting down days! Here’s Everything You Need to Know for Local-First Conf 2025

Thank you to Anytype for sponsoring Local-First Conf!

Join the @jazz.tools team at Local-First Conf! - learn how to vibe-code apps with Jazz - get a first glimpse of AI that “already knows how to use your app”

Come meet @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social at Local-First Conf in our sponsor booth area. And check out Senior Engineer @timoth.ee talk, entitled: 'Building a Yjs Sync Provider using Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects'.

Big thanks to @powersync.com who are sponsors again 2025. Their sync engine provides auto-synced SQLite for mobile, desktop & web apps. It connects to Postgres, MySQL or MongoDB backend databases. Grill Conrad, @k081e.bsky.social & Simon at the event if you have opinions (or want swag).

We’re excited to welcome Alexander Thiele, Head of Engineering at Ocell, as a speaker to Local-First Conf 2025. Alexander will share how they are using local-first software to power forestry in Europe's wilds.

We’re excited to welcome @timoth.ee from @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social to Local-First Conf 2025! Timo will show how to build a Yjs sync provider using Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects.

We’re excited to announce that Zhanna Sharipova, co-founder of Anytype, will be speaking about Local first & Social software in the era of LLMs.

We’re excited to welcome back @martin.kleppmann.com who is joining Local-First Conf 2025 in a panel discussion.

If you're around Berlin after the conference, check out this fun community-organised event: User Agents Berlin - two days of space for hanging and hacking with friends you met at Local-First Conf! Register here: lu.ma/v457jxp2

We're thrilled to welcome Eileen Wagner to our speaker lineup! As a UX designer and researcher, Eileen has been studying local-first UX best practices and will share her insights in her talk.

We’re thrilled to welcome Nathan Wienert, founder of Tamagui and One, to the Local-First Conf 2025 lineup! Nathan will make the case for simpler frameworks and better UX by showing how local-first flips the script on data management—handling everything from querying to realtime sync."

We’re excited to announce that @patternist.xyz member of the @inkandswitch.com team, will be speaking about Beelay, a new generic sync system.

We’re excited to announce that @paulbutler.org co-founder of Jamsocket, will be speaking at Local-First Conf 2025! Paul will explore how CRDTs can act as temporal data structures, enabling features like revision history by delta-encoding changes over time.

We’re excited to welcome @devagr.bsky.social to Local-First Conf 2025! Dev will show how fine-grained renderers like Svelte and Solid can unlock the full power of sync engines.

Please welcome back @anselm.io creator of jazz.tools and founder of Garden Computing. Anselm will speak about how local-first is accidentally perfect for the AI age.