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

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Thanks to ditto.live for supporting Sync Conf. Their peer-to-peer sync tech keeps apps fast and reliable, even offline.

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Thanks to @powersync.com 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 @cloudflare.social for supporting Sync Conf. They’re making it easier to build fast, secure, globally distributed agentic apps.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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

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Frank McSherry @frankmcsherry.bsky.social of Materialize 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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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Great talk from Lee Bryon from OpenAI explaining how they approached the problem of document editing in ChatGPT Canvas, with an architecture that allows syncing state with an AI model.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Awesome intro to Sync Conf from @thruflo.com, asking the question where sync fits in this fast changing world of AI. Sync, as it happens, is a key component to this bright future!

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Normal Birds are sold out. Two weeks to go! ⚡

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Full lineup and schedule for @syncconf.bsky.social in SF on Nov 12. Link in the 🧵 below 👇

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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.

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Irakli and 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.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 (@powersync.com) 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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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Brendan (number0 / Iroh) 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.dev is quickly becoming the go-to sync engine for startups building AI and agentic apps. At Sync Conf 2025, co-founder James Cowling @jamescowling.dev will share how they’re making it happen.

Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social 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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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

James Arthur @thruflo.com is building @electric-sql.com, the sync engine behind @tanstack.com and @elixir-lang.org. 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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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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.

Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

"From developer experience to user agency and data ownership. Different motivations unite into a stronger coalition for local-first tech." @adamwiggins.bsky.social

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"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

Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

How can sync engines and local-first tech cross-pollinate with building agentic systems?" @thruflo.com. A Sync Conf topic.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

"Should companies build their own sync engine or rely on off-the-shelf solutions?" @schickling.dev. A topic at Sync Conf.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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.