Sync engines get our apps many pragmatic benefits: faster UIs, lower hosting bills, better developer experience. But in this talk I want to contrast with a more aspirational way for our apps to work, called: local-first software.

After a quick review of the seven principles of local first, we'll dive into exactly why you should care about this. We'll lift our perspective to topics like ownership over your work and empowerment in your computing life. And talk about how sync is a bridge that gets us to this more enlightened future.