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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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Wednesday, July 8
 

9:00am EDT

Mac Onboarding with Alectrona Patch: Curated App Provisioning at Enrollment
Wednesday July 8, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
205
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Day-one Mac provisioning is fiddly: Prestage packages, scripts, install ordering. Mac Onboarding is Alectrona Patch's new MDM-agnostic alternative — declare your day-one apps in a single configuration profile, and Patch handles downloads, sequenced installs, and dependency chains. We'll build it in Patch Desktop and pair it with Setup Your Mac or Jamf Setup Manager so users see install progress and know exactly when their new Mac is ready to use.
Speakers
avatar for Ryan Ball

Ryan Ball

Director of Engineering, Alectrona
Ryan is a seasoned Mac Admin who has worked in environments managing over 12,000 Apple devices. Ryan Ball now supports engineering projects for small and medium-sized businesses as the Director of Engineering at Alectrona. As a member of the Apple Consultants Network, a Jamf Services... Read More →
Wednesday July 8, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
205 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   Automation / DevOps & Scripting / Device Management & MDM / Deployment / Identity & Infrastructure   All Levels

10:45am EDT

Modern Software Delivery on macOS with Workbrew
Wednesday July 8, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
206
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Workbrew adds the structure organizations need on top of Homebrew, enabling trusted software delivery across macOS environments. It improves visibility into your software supply chain and provides the management layer required for IT, security, compliance, and finance teams. Developers keep the flexibility of Homebrew, while your organization gains the visibility, governance, and consistency needed to deliver software confidently across every device.
Speakers
avatar for Brandon Valentine

Brandon Valentine

Workbrew
Brandon Valentine began his career in 2000 as a systems administrator managing large-scale fleets, quickly becoming an active contributor to open source package managers. Over the years, he expanded his expertise to include Ruby development, consulting, and professional sales. A devoted... Read More →
Wednesday July 8, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
206 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   Security & Compliance / Core Mac Administration / Device Management & MDM   All Levels

1:30pm EDT

Being Human in the Age of AI
Wednesday July 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
205
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The tech space has changed drastically in the last few years as AI has flipped the industry on it’s head - and a lot of our work environments and day to day lives look a lot different in todays world. This talk is about the being a human in this day and age, and what ways we can highlight and hone our natural strengths to be the best humans we can be in the community and in the work space.
Speakers
avatar for Selina Ali

Selina Ali

Senior Product Manager, Addigy
As a Product Manager at Addigy, Selina handles things like MDM, DDM, and App Management with deeper expertise in Apple Business and Apple School manager integrations, Automated Device Enrollment, and Apps and Books. Selina is also Addigy’s self-declared, unofficial archaeologist... Read More →
Wednesday July 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
205 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   Career / Community & Wellbeing   All Levels

3:15pm EDT

A Different Kind of Device Management: Simple, Unified Apple Management at Scale
Wednesday July 8, 2026 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
205
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Your Apple device management tool isn’t the real problem. It sits inside a broader endpoint sprawl — multiple tools, multiple consoles, multiple sources of truth. And even within your Apple tooling, complexity piles upon complexity. In this session, Josh Schofield, NinjaOne's VP of Product Management, walks through a fundamentally different approach: unified policy management that works consistently across your entire Apple fleet, from zero-touch enrollment to ongoing compliance.

Note: This session will not be recorded.
Speakers
avatar for Josh Schofield

Josh Schofield

NinjaOne
Josh Schofield is the VP, Product Management at NinjaOne. With 20+ years of experience in technology, his expertise centers around helping IT practitioners automate and improve cyber hygiene. With a foundation in systems engineering and a passion for driving innovation, Schofield... Read More →
Wednesday July 8, 2026 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
205 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   Intermediate
 
Thursday, July 9
 

9:00am EDT

DFU At Scale
Thursday July 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
206
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Lessons learned from At Scale deployment of Apple Silicon Macs in education and enterprise. For the last 5 years, we have been on the front lines of deploying new and refurbished Apple Silicon Macs. We will discuss the process in different deployment situations, optimization of the process and interesting stories from the field. We will discuss the Apple technologies use, how we customized the tooling, and the surprising things we discovered along the way.
Speakers
avatar for Timothy Perfitt

Timothy Perfitt

Founder, Twocanoes Software
Building on his 11 years of experience at Apple, Timothy Perfitt left Apple and founded Twocanoes Software in 2012. At Apple he worked with Core OS and large enterprise customers to create and implement Mac and iPhone solutions to large companies and universities. He has a Master... Read More →
avatar for Marek Bajno

Marek Bajno

Apple Tech Enablement Lead Consultant IC Engineering, Computacenter
Apple Tech Enablement Lead Consultant at IC Engineering and Apple infrastructure architect at Computacenter US. Designs and builds scalable Apple environments supporting enterprise ecosystems, with deployments exceeding 1,000 devices daily. Over 25 years of experience specializing... Read More →
avatar for Faith Clauson

Faith Clauson

Technical Sales Lead, Acroname
Faith is on the sales team at Acroname, selling industrial USB hubs and switches. We are based in Boulder, CO. We are partnered with Twocanoes Software to bring a complete solution for scaling DFU and restore processes.
Thursday July 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
206 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   All Levels

11:15am EDT

The Mac-Native Way to Deliver Windows Apps, Powered by Parallels Desktop
Thursday July 9, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
207
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Mac adoption continues to grow, but many organizations still depend on Windows applications for critical workflows. This session explores the latest advancements in control, automation, and visibility of Windows VMs and Windows apps for IT teams. You'll get a look at the future of virtualization on macOS, including how to deliver Windows apps with a simple, app-centric experience that integrates directly into macOS management workflows, making them feel like a native part of the user's work.
Speakers
avatar for Luba Kulakova

Luba Kulakova

Principal Product Manager, Parallels Desktop
Luba leads the B2B product strategy for Parallels Desktop, focusing on enterprise virtualization on macOS. She works closely with Mac administrators across corporate and educational environments to understand their operational challenges and improve VMs deployment, management, and... Read More →
avatar for Alex Patsay

Alex Patsay

Sr Director of Product Management, Parallels
Alex Patsay is a Senior Director of Product Management at Parallels, where he oversees several strategic projects within Parallels Desktop — the leading solution for running Windows applications on Mac. With extensive experience in product management, Alex brings a deep understanding... Read More →
Thursday July 9, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
207 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   All Levels

1:15pm EDT

The resume of the new Apple admin
Thursday July 9, 2026 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
205
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You know FileVault, configuration profiles, and DDM. But can you name their Windows and Linux counterparts? IT teams are getting leaner and more AI-augmented, and the admins who thrive are the ones who can manage anything — not just Apple. Broaden your platform expertise and you broaden your career. This session translates the Apple concepts you already know into Windows and Linux equivalents, so you can make yourself invaluable at any company across every OS.
Speakers
avatar for Kitzy

Kitzy

Customer Solutions Architect, Fleet
Kitzy is a Customer Solutions Architect at Fleet and co-founder of The Mac Admins Slack. With 15+ years in Mac administration and device management, they've built tools like FleetImporter and spoken at conferences including X-World, MacADUK, and Penn State Mac Admins. They've previously... Read More →
avatar for Harrison Ravazzolo

Harrison Ravazzolo

Solutions Consultant, Fleet Device Management
Harrison is a Solutions Engineer for Fleet Device Management. He’s passionate about improving IT workflows and approaching problems and solutions through a lens of security. Before entering tech, he was a sourdough bread baker in San Francisco.
Thursday July 9, 2026 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
205 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   Tools / AI & Practical Solutions / Automation / DevOps & Scripting / Device Management & MDM   Intermediate

2:50pm EDT

Prompt, Don't Script: Designing Agentic IT Automation You Can Trust
Thursday July 9, 2026 2:50pm - 3:50pm EDT
205
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Every Mac admin has written a script that works great — until it hits the one weird case you didn't plan for. This session looks at a different approach: plain-language playbooks that an AI agent reasons through at runtime. Instead of locking automation into code, you describe the workflow, test it, see where it breaks, and refine — the same describe-build-debug loop you'd know from an agentic coding tool, brought to IT.
Speakers
avatar for Clint Guerrero

Clint Guerrero

Engineer, Console
Clint Guerrero is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Console and a Mac user of 20+ years. He spent years as an engineer at Twitter and Meta, building systems at Twitter that automatically resolved nearly half of inbound support requests, and partner integration and payments tooling at... Read More →
avatar for Mateo Davis

Mateo Davis

Engineering Lead, Console
Mateo is an engineering lead at Console, where he works on identity governance and administration and agentic IT automation. He spent years in access governance at Veza, an identity security startup later acquired by ServiceNow, building systems that helped enterprises manage who... Read More →
Thursday July 9, 2026 2:50pm - 3:50pm EDT
205 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   Intermediate

4:15pm EDT

Mac Admins Foundation Action News!
Thursday July 9, 2026 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
206
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The Mac Admins Foundation team has been quiet so far in 2026. Come learn what the team has cooking for the second half of 2026!
Speakers
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Chris Dawe

Co-Chair, Mac Admins Foundation
Among other things, Chris Dawe is the Co-Chair of the Mac Admins Foundation.
avatar for Scott Blake

Scott Blake

Senior IT Engineer, Flywire
Scott is a longtime Apple Admin with over 20 years experience in IT. He is currently working for Flywire where he and the rest of the team manage a fleet of 1300 Apple devices across the globe. He spends most of his evenings enabling his kids to do great things in soccer, tennis... Read More →
Thursday July 9, 2026 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
206 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   Career / Community & Wellbeing   All Levels
 
Friday, July 10
 

9:00am EDT

The System Engineer's approach to device management with SOTI MobiControl
Friday July 10, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 6
What does an intuitive abstraction of Declarative Device Management look like on a user interface? How can you reason about your fleet's check-in schedule to minimize latency? This session shows how SOTI MobiControl helps IT teams manage Apple devices at scale with a systems approach. We'll cover everything from DDM and app deployment, to API-first automation and tuning on-premises deployments. Leave with practical insights to keep your operations scalable and adaptable.
Speakers
avatar for Youssef Mohamed

Youssef Mohamed

Product Manager, SOTI
Youssef is a Software Engineer turned Product Manager working on Apple device management at SOTI.
Friday July 10, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 6 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   All Levels

10:45am EDT

Sponsor Session: Iru Inc.
Friday July 10, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
205
Details for this session are coming soon! Representatives from Iru Inc. will be joining us to share insights, tools, and real-world experiences relevant to the MacAdmins community.


Stay tuned for more information as we finalize the session details. In the meantime, you can learn more about their work at Iru Inc’s website.

Friday July 10, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
205 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   Advanced
 

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