
Talks, Day 2
The second day of talks is on Wednesday, May 28. The venue is nHow Berlin located at Stralauer Allee 3.
The afterparty takes place at OELGARTEN located at Schleusenufer 1.
Venue opens (coffee, snacks)
Welcome by MC
15 years of Local First: a best-of report from the field Jan Lehnardt
Local-first OS Seph Gentle
Break (drinks only)
The UX of Local First Eileen Wagner
The last mile of Local First Jess Martin
Lunch
Local First & social software in the era of LLMs Zhanna Sharipova
Why Local First matters to businesses Adam Fish
Break (drinks only)
Local First is not going to win, but that's okay Nikita Prokopov
The disappearing framework, and many concepts you don't need with Local First Nathan Wienert
5 years of P2P web browser development Mauve Signweaver
Break (drinks, snacks)
Powering offline-first forestry in Europe's wilds Alexander Thiele
Local First: the secret master plan Peter van Hardenberg
Wrap up
Afterparty at ŒLGARTEN
Why Local First matters to businesses
May 28 14:30 - 15:00
Local-first is transforming how businesses operate, improving revenue through higher uptime, streamlining operations by reducing dependencies, and delivering smoother customer experiences through real-time responsiveness. As expectations grow though, businesses are facing emerging needs that legacy architectures struggle to meet. This talk explores how the shift to local-first is revealing the cracks in traditional networking and why meeting modern demands for reliability, low latency, and real-time coordination will require rethinking the stack itself.
These growing expectations such as high uptime in disconnected environments is making local-first not just technically interesting, but increasingly necessary for key industries from aviation, restaurant, transportation, hospitality, and more. Let's look at how these businesses are future-proofing with local-first!