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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.

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Thursday, July 9
 

9:00am EDT

Wait, We Have to Be What? Making Sense of Compliance for Mac Admins
Thursday July 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
TBA 3
One day your manager walks over and says the company needs to be SOC 2 compliant, NIST aligned, or ISO-27001. And just like that, compliance becomes your problem. If you've ever nodded along while quietly wondering what any of it actually means for your apple fleet, your team, or your organization, this session is for you. We'll map major frameworks, cut through the tool noise from GRC platforms to the macOS Security Compliance Project and give you a process that scales from SOC 2 to FedRAMP.
Speakers
avatar for Kyle Pazandak

Kyle Pazandak

Security Architect
Thursday July 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
TBA 3 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Security & Compliance   Fundamental

10:00am EDT

What’s New for IT
Thursday July 9, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
TBA 3
Join Apple to learn about the latest IT management capabilities coming to Apple platforms following the announcements at WWDC 2026. We’ll cover enhancements to Apple Business and School Manager, updates to Platform Single Sign-On and Declarative Device Management, and new deployment and management capabilities across macOS, iOS, iPadOS and other platforms. Whether you’re responsible for deploying, securing, or managing Apple devices at scale, this session will provide an overview of the latest tools and capabilities designed to help IT teams work more efficiently and effectively.

Note: This session will not be recorded.
Speakers
AI

Apple Inc.

Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the... Read More →
Thursday July 9, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
TBA 3 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Core Mac Administration   Fundamental

10:00am EDT

Managing Student Media Makers
Thursday July 9, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
TBA 1
Students in Penn State's Bellisario College of Communications produce hundreds of hours of films, journalism and podcasts every year. Almost every piece of content touches a computer running macOS. Come see how we manage (or sometimes just deal with) the applications and workflows that keep the content flowing.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Maurer

Chris Maurer

Systems Administrator, Penn State Bellisario College of Communications
Thursday July 9, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
TBA 1 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Device Management & MDM   Fundamental

10:00am EDT

Transforming Asset Management with SwiftDialog and APIs
Thursday July 9, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
TBA 4
We transformed the way we handle asset management by building zsh scripts that leverage swiftDialog, the Google Workspace APIs, our student information system's APIs, and our asset management software's APIs to allow for transactional logging and email receipts to students, faculty, and parents.
Speakers
avatar for Garrett Thorn

Garrett Thorn

Systems Administrator, Oxford School District
Thursday July 9, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
TBA 4 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Tools / AI & Practical Solutions   Fundamental

11:15am EDT

The Mac Admin Playbook – From First Device to Full Estate
Thursday July 9, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
TBA 3
Most companies scale their Mac fleet before they build the foundations to support it, and spend years paying for that mistake. The Mac Admin Playbook cuts through the noise to give you the exact stack, in the right order, from day one, covering every critical layer of a modern Apple environment, from secure onboarding and encryption to endpoint protection, identity and remote access. Then it takes you further into decisions, tradeoffs, and pro tips that separate reactive from proactive IT teams.
Speakers
avatar for Buraq Alsmadi

Buraq Alsmadi

Head of IT
Thursday July 9, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
TBA 3 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Core Mac Administration   Fundamental

2:50pm EDT

Mac Administration and the basics
Thursday July 9, 2026 2:50pm - 3:50pm EDT
TBA 3
I will give you the basics to get started in the Mac Admin scene. The tricks I have learned through the years and the mindset I use when doing Mac Administration.
Speakers
JH

Johnny Himes

System Administrator, The Pennsylvania State University
CW

Cameron Wilkinson

IT Support Specialist
Thursday July 9, 2026 2:50pm - 3:50pm EDT
TBA 3 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Core Mac Administration   Fundamental

2:50pm EDT

TCP/IP Networking Foundations
Thursday July 9, 2026 2:50pm - 3:50pm EDT
TBA 4
Learn the bedrock technologies of computer networking from AP's to Zoning.
Speakers
avatar for Ben Greisler

Ben Greisler

Owner, Kadimac Corp.
Over a quarter century in the tech world building, fixing, writing, training and still always learning.
avatar for John Soward

John Soward

Research IT, Dataseam & University of Kentucky
John has been working in IT since 1988, spending most of it with Unix-like systems including NeXTSTEP and MacOS. He's worked in startups in the insurance, VR and film industry, and spent over 20 years in higher ed. He currently teaches computers science at the University of Kentucky... Read More →
Thursday July 9, 2026 2:50pm - 3:50pm EDT
TBA 4 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Core Mac Administration   Fundamental
 

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