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The MacAdmins Conference is the premier East Coast conference for anyone who deploys and manages devices in the Apple ecosystem. Over the last 15 years we featured hundreds of sessions and many workshops with top notch speakers in the MacAdmins community. MacAdmins offers an incredible level of expertise, value, entertainment, and a great opportunity to network with your fellow admins!

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Wednesday, July 16
 

9:00am EDT

Navigating Mixed-Platform Classrooms in Higher Education: Challenges & Solutions
Wednesday July 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 5
Join us for a captivating workshop led by two History majors turned IT professionals, as they share their journey and provide an inside look at what it takes to manage nearly 300 classrooms.
Speakers
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Ted Akin

IT Support Specialist, Florida State University
Ted Akin has been part of the Classroom Support Group at Florida State University for the past eight years, serving as the team‚Äôs lead technician, supporting nearly 300 mixed-platform classrooms and over 800 computers. When not on the job, he enjoys spending time with his family... Read More →
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Martin Lippai

IT Support Specialist, Florida State University
Martin has been working at FSU for three years, before which he wore many other hats as a middle school teacher, Apple Store Genius Admin, and a few other things. He helps manage a fleet of about 350 Mac devices used in University Classrooms in both lab-style setups and as part of... Read More →
Wednesday July 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 5 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Career   Deployment   Device Management   All Levels

9:00am EDT

MDM and DDM 101
Wednesday July 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 1
This session discusses how mobile device management (MDM) and declarative device management (DDM) work to manage Apple devices.
Speakers
avatar for Rich Trouton

Rich Trouton

IT Technology Senior Consultant, Jamf
Rich Trouton has been doing Macintosh system and server administration for over twenty years and has supported Macs in a number of different environments, including education, government, research, and software development._x000D_ _x000D_ Rich has also written for Peachpit, Apress... Read More →
Wednesday July 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 1 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Device Management   All Levels

9:00am EDT

The State of Identity on Apple devices
Wednesday July 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 2
MAIDs that stand for "Managed Apple Accounts." Platform Single Sign-On that doesn't make changes to local user accounts. iOS... I mean, there's a lot of weird ways that your organization's identity ties into your organization's Apple fleet. We're gonna do a state of the union - iOS, macOS, Apple Accounts, single sign on extensions, visionOS(!?!), and even how ACME certificates fit into all of this.
Speakers
avatar for Sean Rabbitt

Sean Rabbitt

Sr. Consulting Engineer, Identity and Access Management, Jamf
Born a small human child, Sean has since gotten larger. These days he helps organizations succeed with Apple, consulting on how to manage and secure fleets of devices. He is often performing extreme social distancing traveling the country in an Airstream trailer with his husband of... Read More →
Wednesday July 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 2 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Security   Device Management   All Levels

9:00am EDT

Sponsor Session
Wednesday July 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 6
A 75 minute conference session by a conference sponsor

This is a template schedule, this is not the actual schedule for 2025
Wednesday July 16, 2025 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

Career Management for Admins: creating your path
Wednesday July 16, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
TBA 5
There are a lot of myths when it comes to managing a career as an admin, one of the biggest being "Good work is its own reward". That would be nice if it were true, but in reality, a successful career as an admin takes a lot of work as a thing unto itself. This session will help you learn the details about good career management.
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 →
avatar for Nadyne Richmond

Nadyne Richmond

Design executive for global teams
Nadyne Richmond is an executive leading global organizations. With a focus on artificial intelligence, healthtech, and enterprise software, she has designed and delivered Mac and iOS applications from productivity software to electronic health records.
Wednesday July 16, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
TBA 5 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Career   All Levels

10:45am EDT

Celebrating AutoPkg with a new Runner
Wednesday July 16, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
TBA 4
The first official AutoPkg release was almost 12 years ago and the famed autopkg_tools.py was first released 8 years ago. I'm here to present a new runner to the landscape that is built from the ground up to support CI/CD pipelines, download caching, and it does it all faster than you thought possible.
Speakers
avatar for Scott Blake

Scott Blake

Senior Client Platform 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 →
Wednesday July 16, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
TBA 4 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Deployment   Toolbox   All Levels

10:45am EDT

Sponsor Session - Workbrew
Wednesday July 16, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
TBA 6
A conference session by a conference sponsor.  Additional details coming soon.
Wednesday July 16, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
TBA 6 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   Deployment   All Levels

1:30pm EDT

Leading from Wherever You Are
Wednesday July 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
TBA 5
Whether you are striving to be a technical lead, project lead, staff engineer, or even a people leader, leading in Technology requires collaboration as well as technical experience. Regardless of role or title, the human element is critical in the technical work we do. This talk covers foundational technical leadership skills, such as breaking ambiguous work into clear technical direction, guiding colleagues and users through technical change, building out initiative proposals, and more.
Speakers
avatar for Meghan Gillet

Meghan Gillet

Technology Manager, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Meghan has worked for the Walt Disney Animation Studios for nearly 16 years. Throughout her career, she has led technical work from multiple different roles. She has been involved with leading Disney Animation through macOS change for over a decade and currently manages the team responsible... Read More →
Wednesday July 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
TBA 5 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Career   All Levels

1:30pm EDT

macOS 16: What You Need To Know
Wednesday July 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
TBA 1
Need the lowdown on what's up with the latest version of macOS? This session will be your guide into the new features and changes coming in macOS 16, and how they'll affect you and your users, and what you can do to prepare!
Speakers
avatar for Robert Hammen

Robert Hammen

Principal Mac Engineer
As a former IT manager, consultant, Apple Certified System Administrator, and Apple Certified Trainer, I've been managing Macs since before the days of OS X. After 5 years managing the tens of thousands of Apple devices at SpaceX, sending 58 iPads to orbit with astronauts and cosmonauts... Read More →
Wednesday July 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
TBA 1 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Deployment   Device Management   All Levels

1:30pm EDT

Achieving End-to-End Phishing-Resistance with Entra ID Passkeys and Platform SSO
Wednesday July 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
TBA 2
Learn best practices, tips, and tricks for deploying strong, phishing-resistant authentication methods for iOS and macOS users. This session will cover the threats presented by remote phishing attacks and Microsoft's guidance for organizations to protect themselves from these threats. Guidance will include information on passkeys and Platform SSO deployment using Entra ID.
Speakers
avatar for Michael Epping

Michael Epping

Senior Product Manager
Michael Epping is a Senior Product Manager in the Entra ID Customer Experience team at Microsoft. As part of the customer experience team and his role is to accelerate the adoption of Identity features from Microsoft across enterprise customers. He's spoken at various industry events... Read More →
Wednesday July 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
TBA 2 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Deployment   Security   All Levels

1:30pm EDT

swiftDialog for Overworked Mac Admins
Wednesday July 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
TBA 4
You've used swiftDialog-based projects like Nudge, or erase-install, or Setup-Your-Mac. You'd like to use similar notification or action windows for your user-facing scripts, and you have no idea where to start! Come and see my approach to using swiftDialog for my scripts, as a person with no particular scripting expertise. Beginner and intermediate admins should get something useful here; advanced scripters, probably not.
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 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
TBA 4 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Deployment   Toolbox   All Levels

3:15pm EDT

Navigating LGBT Challenges and Building Support in IT
Wednesday July 16, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
TBA 5
This panel will explore the unique challenges faced by LGBT professionals in the IT industry and highlight strategies for fostering inclusivity, resilience, and professional growth. Panelists will discuss workplace dynamics, representation, mental health, and overcoming biases, while sharing personal experiences and actionable insights. The session aims to spark dialogue, promote allyship, and encourage concrete steps toward a more inclusive IT environment.
Speakers
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Louise Radifera

macLemur
Louise entered the world of geekdom after seeing her first tech movie where she watched HAL refuse to open the pod bay doors and then seeing the ‚Äúold‚Äù Duotronic computers not only work, but provide answers by voice on starships on TV. She has been fascinated by computers... Read More →
avatar for Joshua Smith

Joshua Smith

Senior Director, Team Member Technology eXperience, Global Payments
I lead a globally diverse team focused on modernizing the tech experience - from streamlining device management to improving support and security. We're all about reducing noise, automating the boring stuff, and making life easier for our internal team members. I care deeply about... Read More →
avatar for Sabrina Coy

Sabrina Coy

Mac Admins Co-founder/Former MAF Chair Emeritus
Sabrina co-founded the Mac Admins Slack community, and was a founding board member of the Mac Admins Foundation. She has ~20 years experience in IT and adjacent roles, with a focus on making tech approachable. Sabrina came out as a transgender woman at 41, and owes a debt of gratitude... Read More →
avatar for Becky Scott

Becky Scott

Community advocate & MAF board member
Becky is a Board Member-at-Large of the Mac Admins Foundation. She also volunteers on the board of the Association of IT Professionals - RTP in the Raleigh / Durham area of North Carolina.
avatar for Leon Chung

Leon Chung

Client Platform Engineer
Joined Mac admins back in IRC days managing a small fleet of Macs, now managing mostly Windows and memes.
avatar for John Eberle

John Eberle

Tuxudo
A native of the Pittsburgh area and graduate of Penn State. Currently a Mac admin at a non-profit in the Pittsburgh area web apps, fixing hardware of all kinds, and supporting everything IT.
Wednesday July 16, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
TBA 5 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Career   All Levels

3:15pm EDT

Master Macs with Intune (a sequel to Managing Macs with Intune)
Wednesday July 16, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
TBA 1
As a follow-up to last year’s introduction on Managing Macs with Intune, join us to review new updates from Intune, new third-party tools, and how to successfully manage Macs in Intune. Microsoft Intune continues to be the hot topic for managing Macs due to cost savings, a single pane of glass, as well as its overall improvements as an MDM to manage Macs.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Myers

Andrew Myers

Client Platform Engineer, Alectrona
Andrew is a seasoned Mac Admin working within multiple MDMs, open-sourced MacAdmin tools, and just getting Macs into organizations. Before Alectrona, worked in higher education for over 10+ years.
avatar for Sam Gibbs

Sam Gibbs

Client Platform Engineer, Alectrona
Sam is an Apple Client Platform Engineer at Alectrona, providing Mac and Jamf support for clients and partners. Prior to joining Alectrona, Sam spent 10+ years wrangling Macs in higher ed.
Wednesday July 16, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
TBA 1 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Deployment   Device Management   All Levels

3:15pm EDT

Sponsor Session - Risotto
Wednesday July 16, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
TBA 6
A conference session by a conference sponsor.  Additional details coming soon.
Wednesday July 16, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
TBA 6 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Sponsor   Security   All Levels

3:15pm EDT

Maximizing macOS: EVEN MORE Insider Tips for Efficient Mac Administration
Wednesday July 16, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
TBA 4
Have you ever watched a conference presenter or YouTube tutorial about a topic, but while the presenter is talking, you notice them do some keyboard shortcut magic to complete a task that normally takes you 3 times as many steps? In this session, we hope to teach you some of those shortcuts, tools, tips, and tricks to help you be a more efficient Mac Admin.
Speakers
avatar for Dennis Wurster

Dennis Wurster

Associate Director of Computing, Eastman School of Music - University of Rochester
Dennis provides Apple-focused expertise in his role as Associate Director of Computing at Eastman School of Music. He has written for technology journals and presented at several conferences. Away from the keyboard, Dennis enjoys cycling, automotive technology, and travel.
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Wednesday July 16, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
TBA 4 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
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