2026 MacAdmins Conference

The MacAdmins Conference is a premier event for professionals who deploy, manage, and support devices across the Apple ecosystem. For more than 15 years, we have delivered high-quality sessions and hands-on workshops led by trusted voices in the MacAdmins community. Attendees come together to share real-world experience, practical solutions, and build lasting connections.

Registration is now OPEN!

3:30pm EDT

Conference Registration Registration Desk I

6:45am EDT

Conference Registration Registration Desk I

7:30am EDT

Breakfast 🧇 ☕ Presidents Hall

8:20am EDT

Conference Welcome - Workshop Day Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

The Fundamentals: Get Started with Apple Device Management for New MacAdmins 208Jeremey Kenney • Jarrod Coombes • Adam Selby • Ross Matsuda How to edit your terrible tech writing / Troubleshooting Inclusion: Leveraging Neurodivergent Strengths for Effective Collaboration 205Roger Herling • Sabrina Coy • William Smith Scripting for (Not Just) Beginner MacAdmins: Building Habits, Not Just Scripts 206Adam Codega • Trevor Sysock I Didn't Want To Learn PowerShell, And So Can You! 207Charles Mangin Automate Anything! Create AutoPkg Processor from scratch. / macOS GitOps: Building Secure and Versioned macOS Script Repos Deans Hall 2Matt Parker • James Stewart mSCP 2.0: The Quest for More Compliance Deans Hall 1Cody Keats • John Mahlman IV • Matt Woodruff

12:00pm EDT

Lunch 🥪 Presidents Hall

4:45pm EDT

Speaker's Meeting Deans Hall 2

5:00pm EDT

Conference Opening and Dinner Presidents Hall

7:30am EDT

Breakfast 🍊🫖 Presidents Hall Conference Registration Registration Desk I

8:20am EDT

Conference Welcome Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

Python vs zsh for MacAdmins TBA 5Adam Wickert • Oscar Rodriguez Imposter Syndrome, Anxiety, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves TBA 4Goetch Stone Terminal Survival Kit: CLI Skills for New Mac Admins TBA 3Mark Laslo Platform SSO State of the Union TBA 2Arek Dreyer Permissions, Perils, Pedantry, and Configs: The Basics of PPPC TBA 1Joshua See Sponsor Session: Alectrona 205

10:45am EDT

Jamf as Code: Managing Scripts and Extension Attributes with GitLab CI TBA 5Jonathan Blasingame Real-World Parenting for the Mac Admin TBA 4Chris Tuley • Brad Wilkerson macOS 27: What You Need To Know TBA 3Robert Hammen Session Coming Soon TBA 1 Sponsor Session: Workbrew 205 Get and set default apps with Utiluti TBA 2Ross Matsuda

12:00pm EDT

Lunch 🥪 Presidents Hall

12:30pm EDT

Lunch and Visit our Sponsors Presidents Hall

1:30pm EDT

Everyday Git for Overworked MacAdmins TBA 5Beth Johnson The Remote System Admin: Thriving Without Burning Out TBA 4Jeremey Kenney Maximizing macOS: EVEN MORE Insider Tips for Efficient Mac Administration TBA 3Dennis Wurster • Nate Felton The "Day One" Standard: Frictionless Onboarding with Okta TBA 2Justin Henderson • Johnny Brown An Introduction to SNMP TBA 1John Welch Sponsor Session: Addigy 205

3:15pm EDT

Automate Anything! AutoPkg Processors for Everything TBA 5James Stewart Session Coming Soon! TBA 4 MUSKY: Help Desk tools for Students and Faculty TBA 3Jesse C. Smillie What's New in Munki TBA 2Greg Neagle macOS Compliance for the Busy Admin TBA 1John Mahlman IV Sponsor Session: Ninja One 205

5:00pm EDT

Taproom Takeover: MacAdmins at Axemann Brewery

7:30am EDT

Breakfast 🥞 🥛 Presidents Hall Conference Registration Registration Desk I

9:00am EDT

How to Chat with Sponsors TBA 4Dave Provine Support as Relationship: How Human-Centred IT Builds Trust TBA 5Nathan Beranger From Chaos to Follow-Me: Implementing PaperCut Mobility Print on a Multi-Platform Campus TBA 2Dennis Moffett • Ray Nieves Managing the Unmanageable: How Snap Inc. (Snapchat) Rolled out Managed Apple Accounts TBA 1Katie Due Wait, We Have to Be What? Making Sense of Compliance for Mac Admins TBA 3Kyle Pazandak Sponsor Session: Twocanoes 205

10:00am EDT

Three Lessons from a Woman in Enterprise Architecture TBA 5Sarah Wimberley What’s New for IT TBA 3Apple Inc. Seamless Endpoint Branding at Scale: Dynamic Customization for macOS Fleets TBA 2Kevin M. Cox Managing Student Media Makers TBA 1Chris Maurer Sponsor Session: Parallels 205 Transforming Asset Management with SwiftDialog and APIs TBA 4Garrett Thorn

11:15am EDT

Open Source Contributions Don't Have to Be Code TBA 5Vaughn Miller The Mac Admin Playbook – From First Device to Full Estate TBA 3Buraq Alsmadi How Root went Mac First TBA 2Ilyas Bekkair • Michael Lynn From recipe to reality: Automating software deployment with AutoPkg and Fleet TBA 1Kitzy FileVault 101 TBA 4Rich Trouton

12:00pm EDT

Lunch and Visit our Sponsors Presidents Hall

12:30pm EDT

Lunch and Visit our Sponsors Presidents Hall

1:15pm EDT

Security Called: How I Turned a Scripting Disaster into a GitOps Pipeline TBA 5Matt Parker The Journey of Apple Issue Escalation TBA 3Timothy Perfitt Rock the Cache-Bar! Apple Content Caching Explained TBA 2Robert Hammen Seven Reasons Why You Should Store Metadata on Your Macs TBA 4Marc Grubb Sponsor Session: Fleet 205 Apple Intelligence & Private Cloud Compute TBA 1Apple Inc.

2:50pm EDT

Not broken, just different: Working with ADHD, anxiety, and neurodivergence in tech TBA 5Kitzy • Andrea Pepper Mac Administration and the basics TBA 3Johnny Himes • Cameron Wilkinson TCP/IP Networking Foundations TBA 4Ben Greisler • John Soward MDM Migrations - Intune Edition TBA 1Andrew Myers • Chad Swarthout Sponsor Session: Console 205 Applying AI to Log Analysis TBA 2Gabriel Jordan

4:15pm EDT

Navigating LGBT Challenges and Building Support in IT a year latter TBA 5Louise MacLemur Radifera • Sabrina Coy • Leon Chung • John Eberle Put Down the MDM Config for a Minute: Let’s Fall Back in Love with the Mac TBA 3Apple Inc. Mobile Device Management - Working to Get it Right TBA 1Monique Hunt Apple Platform Security TBA 4Apple Inc. Sponsor Session: Mac Admins Foundation 205 S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. is Back Again TBA 2Kevin White

5:30pm EDT

MacAdmins AMA! Presidents Hall

7:30am EDT

Breakfast 🥐 Presidents Hall

8:00am EDT

Conference Registration Registration Desk I

9:00am EDT

Create your own PowerShell Module TBA 5John Welch AI Got Good: Now What? TBA 4Goetch Stone The Evolution of macOS Identity: PSSO, Network Relay, and What’s Next TBA 2Tyler Aird Intune my Mac TBA 1Chris Kunze The Secret-Free Fleet: A Security-First Approach to JIT Admin and MDM Automation TBA 3Matt Parker • Justin Gianelloni Sponsor Session: Company to Be Announced 205

10:45am EDT

From Manually Run Scripts to Automation: GitHub Actions for Mac Admins TBA 5Michael L. • Brian M. Discover The Troubleshooting Tools in Your Mac, Gilligan's Island Edition TBA 3Ben Greisler • John Soward Rosetta's Retirement Party: How to Prepare TBA 2Adam Selby Dr. Strangeprofile or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Legacy Profile and Declarative TBA 1Bryce Carlson LARPing LAPS with Jamf TBA 4Corey Oliphant Sponsor Session: Company to Be Announced 205

12:00pm EDT

Lunch and Conference Wrap-up! Presidents Hall