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!
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.
Ted Akin has been part of the Classroom Support Group at Florida State University for the past eight years, serving as the team's lead technician, supporting nearly 300 mixed-platform classrooms and over 800 computers. When not on the job, he enjoys spending time with his family and... Read More →
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 206Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
WWDC25 introduced groundbreaking updates coming to Apple OS platforms. Join us to learn how we’re enabling IT with more insights to manage devices and organization-owned accounts, new features for Platform Single Sign-On, and device management migrations.
Learn how the University of Nebraska leverages Power Automate and Jamf Setup Manager to securely streamline macOS deployments. This process dynamically sets the device name, assigns the correct Jamf site, and applies risk classification, all while maintaining a single PreStage for the entire university. By using unique keys and API calls, this method ensures security without exposing credentials.
Quinn is an Endpoint Security Engineer at the University of Nebraska, specializing in macOS security and automation tools. Passionate about making complex systems more approachable, Quinn has presented at PSU MacAdmins and the Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC). She thrives on helping... Read More →
Wednesday July 16, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT 208Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
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.
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 206Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
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 26, and how they'll affect you and your users, and what you can do to prepare!
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 Deans Hall 2Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
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.
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 208Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
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.
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 207Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday July 16, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT 208Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
Learn how to create AutoPkg recipes for MacOS, Windows, and Linux from scratch. AutoPkg can be used to automate the distribution of software updates from vendor websites to your distribution tool of choice, saving many hours a week. It is recommended to be comfortable on the command line, but previous knowledge of AutoPkg is not strictly required. AutoPkg itself is written in Python, but writing python code is not required to write recipes.
