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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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Tuesday, July 7
 

9:00am EDT

I Didn't Want To Learn PowerShell, And So Can You!
Tuesday July 7, 2026 9:00am - 4:30pm EDT
207
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Charles is not a PowerShell advocate. He doesn't even like it very much. But even he will admit, PowerShell for macOS does what it says on the tin: It is, in fact, a command line shell with some considerable power, and it does a pretty good job automating tasks on macOS. Whether you're a dyed-in-the-wool bash scripter, or you've never ventured into the Terminal beyond pasting in "defaults write" commands, if you're PowerShell curious, this hands-on workshop is for you. It may even surprise you.

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Speakers
avatar for Charles Mangin

Charles Mangin

Bash scripts in a trenchcoat
Charles Mangin enjoys setting up camp at the intersections of his divergent interests: Analog and digital, creative and analytical, the old and the new. He’s been working with Macs for over three decades, having transitioned into IT by way of graphic design and web development... Read More →
Tuesday July 7, 2026 9:00am - 4:30pm EDT
207 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Workshop   Fundamental
 
Wednesday, July 8
 

9:00am EDT

Terminal Survival Kit: CLI Skills for New Mac Admins
Wednesday July 8, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
208
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A survival kit for new Mac Admins! Learn common command line tools to navigate folders, manage files, and manipulate macOS; all from the terminal! Things that will be covered are: shell environments (Bash vs Zsh) basic file manipulation basic text manipulation and searching built in utilities to macOS system status utilities Then we'll see how these utilities work within MDM workflows to control devices at scale.
Speakers
avatar for Mark Laslo

Mark Laslo

VP, Technology + Security
Mark is an experienced IT leader who enjoys connecting people and technology. Day to day he oversees a lean IT team responsible for all IT operations at a large New England based advertising agency,.

Before stepping into IT full time, Mark honed his technical skills as a video edi... Read More →
Wednesday July 8, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
208 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Core Mac Administration   Fundamental

10:45am EDT

AI Got Good: Now What?
Wednesday July 8, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Deans Hall 1
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I used to think AI was mostly useless. Confident nonsense that sounded right and wasted time. Then I actually started using it to build something real — and it changed my mind. This session is about what I learned: how to give AI clear direction, how to constrain it so it stops making things up, and why your domain knowledge is still the thing that makes it actually work.
Speakers
GS

Goetch Stone

Director of IT
Goetch Stone serves as the Director of IT at Saybrook Home, a premier furniture retailer in Connecticut. With over 20 years of experience in IT, he began his career at a Managed Service Provider (MSP) and was an Apple Product Professional back when Apple had an actual reseller program... Read More →
Wednesday July 8, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Deans Hall 1 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Career / Community & Wellbeing   Fundamental

1:30pm EDT

Everyday Git for Overworked MacAdmins
Wednesday July 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
208
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Feeling like your script versions have gotten out of control? Struggling to share the load with different admins? Wondering where the heck to store process documents? Come see how I solved these problems -- and more! -- with git and GitHub/GitLab.
Speakers
avatar for Beth Johnson

Beth Johnson

Endpoint Architect & Desktop Systems Administrator, Cat Herder
I came to tech support and computer administration after a career as a postpartum doula and childbirth educator. (When you think about it, they're not that different.) Now I work in higher education, where I architect our workstation management, as well as administer the applications... Read More →
Wednesday July 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
208 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Automation / DevOps & Scripting   Fundamental

1:30pm EDT

An Introduction to SNMP
Wednesday July 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Deans Hall 2
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SNMP is a useful and ubiquitous way to monitor networks and Macs. Get your feet wet with this introduction to this powerful tool!
Speakers
avatar for John Welch

John Welch

Lead Software Engineer, Honeywell
John's been a part of the Apple world for decades, focusing on automation, network monitoring, and badgering companies about their install experience. He's worked in multiple industries including: Higher Ed (Private & Public), Finance, Advertising/Marketing, Datacenters, City Government... Read More →
Wednesday July 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Deans Hall 2 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Security & Compliance   Fundamental
 
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
208
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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
Kyle Pazandak is a Minneapolis-based security professional with a career rooted in Apple platform security, compliance, and open source tooling. Drawing on experience spanning the U.S. Department of Defense, K–12 education technology, and years at Jamf, healthcare, and fintech... Read More →
Thursday July 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
208 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Security & Compliance   Fundamental

10:00am EDT

What’s New for IT (Overflow in 204)
Thursday July 9, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Deans Hall 2
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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
Deans Hall 2 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
206
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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
It was a single Mac in a sea of PCs at a government access TV station. This G4 QuickSilver, with a Matrox RTMac card and FCP 3, was the station's first step in the 'move to digital' and the beginning of my career in Mac IT. 2 years later, with the Mac bug fully implanted in my system... Read More →
Thursday July 9, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
206 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
207
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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
207 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 (Overflow in 204)
Thursday July 9, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Deans Hall 1
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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
I’m the Head of IT at uMotif and the founder of iMasters Solutions, with a passion for building secure, scalable Apple environments.
I spend most of my time working with Jamf, Apple Business, identity and access management, endpoint security, and helping organisations get the f... Read More →
Thursday July 9, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Deans Hall 1 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
Deans Hall 2
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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
Deans Hall 2 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Core Mac Administration   Fundamental

4:15pm EDT

Mac Administration and the basics
Thursday July 9, 2026 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
207
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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
Over 20 years in the Mac management field. Started as a K-12 administrator and grew into a larger role at PSU. I focused my career in the Mac side of administration, but work in the Microsoft side as well.
avatar for Cameron Wilkinson

Cameron Wilkinson

IT Support Specialist, Penn State IT
I am an IT Support Specialist in the College of Health and Human Development's IT. I leverage tools like JAMF, BigFix, and the likes daily.
Thursday July 9, 2026 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
207 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Core Mac Administration   Fundamental
 
Friday, July 10
 

9:00am EDT

What’s New for IT (encore presentation)
Friday July 10, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
208
Feedback Survey
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 →
Friday July 10, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
208 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Core Mac Administration   Fundamental
 

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