Sync Conf 2025
Talks
The conference is on Nov 12, 2025. The venue is The Lodge at The Regency Ballroom located at 1290 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA.
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18:30
- Check in and coffee
- Welcome James Arthur
- Teaching models to collaborate Lee Byron
- Synchronizing data across computation Frank McSherry
- Conflict resolution x Notion blocks Angelique Nehmzow
- Break
- Why physical replication still matters Carl Sverre
- CRDTs solved conflicts, not sync Adam Fish
- Can sync be network-optional? Brendan O'Brien
- How to design a sync-first database James Cowling
- Lunch
- A tale of two sync engines Arushi Bandi
- Always be pair programming swyx
- SQLite persistence on the web Conrad Hofmeyr
- sync(sync) Aaron Boodman, Johannes Schickling, James Cowling, Kyle Mathews
- Break
- Oops, my sync engine has become a database Anselm Eickhoff
- Your data, your rules & the way to share them Irakli Gozalishvili, Chris Joel
- Building AI agentic apps in 2025 Sunil Pai
- Local-first software: pragmatism vs idealism Adam Wiggins
- Post-event mingling

Aaron Boodman
Rocicorp
Rocicorp

Johannes Schickling
Overengineering Studio
Overengineering Studio

James Cowling
Convex
Convex

Kyle Mathews
ElectricSQL
ElectricSQL
sync(sync)
Nov 12 15:05 - 15:50
Let's sync up on recent news in sync! Join our panel discussion for a wandering walk through recent news in the sync space. We'll dive deep into open challenges, tradeoffs between different features and designs, and interesting new technical approaches being explored today.