Speakers, Expo Day, and more
Hi all, some updates from your friendly Local-First Conf organizers. Reminder that the event is coming up on May 30 (talks) and May 31 (expo day) in Berlin.
The tickets are now sold out. Sorry to folks who wanted to come but couldn’t make it.
Speakers finalized
We ended up with an amazing 18 speakers plus our MC, Chad Fowler. Here’s the whole list:
Martin Kleppmann (University of Cambridge)
Tuomas Artman (Linear)
Aaron Boodman (Replicache)
Jack McCloy (Snowflake)
Maggie Appleton (Elicit)
Johannes Schickling (Prisma)
Nik Graf (Serenity)
Alex Good (Automerge)
James Arthur (ElectricSQL)
Philip Lam (Goodnotes)
Paulus Esterhazy (Pitch)
Drew McCormack (Agenda)
Alexander Stigsen (Realm)
Anton Pronkin (Anytype)
Brooklyn Zelenka (UCAN)
Jess Martin (DXOS)
Yifeng Wang (Affine)
Anselm Eickhoff (Jazz.tools)
It’s a single-track conference so talks will be short-but-sweet, with slots ranging from 10–30 minutes in order to fit everything into a single 10am–6pm day. Since this is a small event, consider the talks just a starting place: use the breaks, lunch, evening, and hack day to go deeper with speakers on their area of expertise.
Full schedule with talk titles coming soon.
Expo day
We’re also delighted to offer a second bonus Technology Expo Day, free for existing ticket holders. This event will be hosted by Peter van Hardenberg, director of Ink & Switch. The day will be a chance for you to go hands on and try some of the technologies you'll have heard about on the first day, hosted by the very people building those technologies.
Never built anything with Automerge, Replicache, or ElectricSQL before? Sit with one of the creators of those technologies and see how they work up-close. Want to go deep with the author of a library your team is evaluating? Stop by for a conversation or book some time on their calendar.
The tech expo will be hosted at the offices of GitButler, thanks to them for the generous use of their space. (P.S. GitButler is putting on a great event called The Merge in Berlin in June, use discount code LocalFirst30 for a 30% discount.)
Book your hotel
Berlin in the summer does book up, so make sure you have lodging arranged.
The main venue is Pfefferberg Theater. We don't have any official conference hotel, but we can suggest St Christopher’s (mid range), Amano (splurge), or EastSeven (budget) within walking distance.
Thank you sponsors
Our sponsors are helping keep ticket prices low and enabling us to add a few extra goodies into the mix. Huge thanks to them:
PowerSync (Postgres and SQLite sync layer)
Heavybit (leading investor in dev-first startups)
Rocicorp (creator of multiplayer and sync infrastructure)
Axil (agency focused on local-first software dev)
Affine (workspace merging docs, whiteboards, and databases)
CrabNebula (creator of Tauri, for deploying web technologies as desktop apps)
Questions? Reply here, or post in our Discord.
Looking forward to seeing you all next month ❤️