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!

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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