iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

"When you save a document, you should be able to open and edit your documents with any compatible program. Past versions. Future versions. Software written in house, and by strangers."" Seph Gentle is closing the conference with his talk "Stable Schemas, Mutable Software".

0121 12

"The thing users touch isn’t the model; it’s the harness around it: a loop, a filesystem, tools, memory." @threepointone.bsky.social with his talk "The Harness is the App"

050 5

"Local file system access in browsers is a privacy nightmare, yet it keeps local-first apps users in control of their data." Jari Jalkanen explores the inherent tension between privacy and capability drawing from his experience at Mozilla.

081 8

Last talk before coffee ”Tiles: Own your AI with local models and open protocols“ @ankeshbharti.com shares from his own experience the tradeoffs while combining local models with decentralized identity, peer-to-peer encrypted sync, and AT Protocol based collaboration.

0133 13

Data agency encompasses all of data access, sovereignty, and legibility. Now up on stage @offline.arushibandi.com with her talk: "Habitat: building a world with data agency".

040 4

Are CRDTs useful? That’s what Nicolás Hatcher asks in his talk about local-first collaborative spreadsheets 👀

”A physical object has permanence, exists in a specific place and time, and requires physical access. A Digital Object has the same properties, underwritten by cryptography rather than physics.“ @root.guru with his talk on local digital objects using zero-knowledge cryptography 🔐

We continue with our talks! Now up: Brendan O‘Brien talking about "Iroh: syncing terabytes of data, peer-to-peer“ and sharing Iroh 1.0 as a local-first success story at scale 🤩

0121 12

Last talk before lunchtime! Tobias Bernard (GNOME) and Andreas Dzialocha (p2panda) talk about their new Modal collective and adventures building truly user-empowering peer-to-peer networks and apps.

Last talk before lunchtime! Tobias Bernard (GNOME) and Andreas Dzialocha (p2panda) talk about their new Modal collective and adventures building truly user-empowering peer-to-peer networks and apps.

010 1

On with our talks! @mitsuhiko.at and Colin Hanna are up on stage sharing their ”Reflections on building cloud and local hybrid machine entities“.

061 6

Last talk before our first coffee break: @jheer.org with ”Mosaic: scalable interactive data visualization for the browser“

090 9

Next up: Ricardo Signes talking about ”JMAP, because IMAP was terrible (but also good, actually)“ 😀

060 6

And on to our day 2 talks! 🚀 @pfrazee.com, co-author of AT Protocol and CTO at Bluesky is kicking us off with his talk „Start From Scale“.

0111 11

Starting the day with @pfrazee.com who goes through his own history starting with Secure ScuttleButt (SSB) onwards to building atproto

0302 30

Starting out with a recap of yesterday’s talks and some housekeeping with @adamwiggins.com.

Grab a pretzel, croissant or fresh fruit, get a coffee from the Cloudflare stand and treat yourself with a nice a breakfast before we’re heading into the talks this morning 🥐☕️

Good morning and welcome to Day 2 app-2026.localfirstconf.com/schedule/day-2 Please bring your badges with you!

Boris Mann badge laying on wooden table - ink & Switch, no Caesar, tangled, malleable software, automerge, Bluesky, Goodstuff Goosetopher

2522 52

Last but not least, industry legend @jenson.org is talking about how the Desktop UX needs to evolve to keep up with the needs of local-first software.

081 8

Almost done for today! Before we wrap up, Pardis Noorzad is showing off a local-first music app for DJs, bringing some nice tunes to the conference 😎🎶

041 4

We now have our panel ”Data Ownership Beyond Local-First“ up on stage. Looking forward to an interesting discussion 👀

4241 24

Grab a cookie or a piece of cake during this coffee break ☕️

060 6

Last talk before the afternoon coffee break: Kegan Dougal with ”Local-First Matrix“

0152 15

”You don’t need a cloud subscription“ Now @megaconfidence.bsky.social is on stage to explain how you can build your own AI infrastructure!

052 5

Next up: @nearestnabors.com with another lightning talk ”Frontier LLM results, on device“ 🚀

0102 10

First lightning talk today: @t4t5.com shares his passion about plaintext applications 🤓

052 5

We‘re back after a delicious lunch with @patak.cat and @willow.sh and their talk: ”npmx: a fast community-built browser for the npm registry“ Also, happy birthday to Willow 🎂🥳

0233 23

Only a few minutes until lunch! Pasta and chicken are served inside, bread and soup outside 😋

050 5

Avoid the queue and just grab a soft drink from the self-service fridge we just put up next to the bar area 🙌

Lilith presenting Backstitch backstitch.dev by @inkandswitch.com - local first version control for gaming teams using Godot @godotengine.org Usable by everyone building games, not just programmers or dedicated IT to make git work.

Picture by @expede.wtf

Lilith is on stage describing Backstitch

1235 23

In the last talk before lunch, Lilith Duncan is introducing backstitch.dev, a tool to enable real-time collaboration and version control for game developers in Godot 🥳

@jakelazaroff.com on stage now talking about local first fits great with atproto. Learning lots about what a PDS user account hosting is, & how to connect into CRDTs.

Slide presentation by Jack, an app I made with local first yjs and a sync server.

0390 39

@jakelazaroff.com is giving us a crash course on atproto in his talk „Building more resilient local-first software with atproto“ 🤓

010 1

Grab your .local hat in the entrance area if you haven’t done so already 🧢

280 8

30min break now! Grab a snack, coffee and find someone to chat. Or just enjoy the sun ☀️

251 5

Now up: @jeremytheocharis.bsky.social with a real-world use case of using local-first software on factory floors.

022 2

In our second talk, @steveruizok.bsky.social shows us what agents are capable of on the canvas of @tldraw.com 🤯

We are live 🚀 @martin.kleppmann.com is kicking us off with his talk „Local-first in an unstable world“, drawing the lines between politics, society and software.

000 0

Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · 04/06/2026

Welcome to the first day! Here’s the street to turn down Am Flutgraben, walk down to the Festsaal Kreuzberg sign, then go right at the gate and you’ll see the entrance registration on the left.

090 9

We're thrilled to announce our next speaker batch for Local-First Conf 2026.

24712 47

Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · 13/05/2026

Normal tickets are sold out. Our CFP committee is putting the finishing touches on the program, and we’ll be announcing the full speaker lineup very soon. 🐦