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!
I was tasked with deploying JAMF for our Loaner Fleet as an initial proof of concept before a wider staff enrollment. I created this dashboard to keep myself organized during planning, development and launch phases. This quickly became an indispensable tool for my workflows and an efficient way to share the current state of the environment, both with my own team and other stakeholders. I will explain its features, give a live demo, and will provide a free link to a template for public use.
Workstation & AV Support Engineer II, Computing Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
I'm a hardware technician and systems administrator with over 14 years experience working in IT. My experience spans across a variety of industries including retail, educational, design & advertising, tech start-up, fin-tech, venture capital, medical, and governmental organizations... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT Deans Hall 2Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
The session should progress by highlighting our 10,000-foot journey to modernization in our environment. Where we've added automation, we've also added user interactions. We were looking to strike a balance in Mac management for devices used by developers. Specifically we've like to highlight our use of Swift Dialog as our primary user-interaction tool.
Compliance Benchmarks in Jamf Pro – the game-changer for security and compliance! Effortlessly define, audit, and enforce compliance standards across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, ensuring your organization stays secure and aligned with industry best practices—all with the power and simplicity of Jamf Pro.
Hector has 15+ years of experience in Apple software, hardware, and device management, supporting organizations, schools, and government entities. Before joining Jamf, he was a partner delivering professional services and teaching Jamf courses. He has collaborated with Apple as a... Read More →
Tyler, a Senior Customer Success Engineer at Jamf, has a deep passion for technology and security. With five years at Jamf‚ including two in Technical Support‚ he's a subject matter expert in Jamf Security Cloud, Jamf Protect, and Jamf Executive Threat Protection. He plays a key... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT Deans Hall 2Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
How to enable employees and students with different OS on Mac devices while maintaining security and compliance. This session will cover the latest advancements in deployment and management of virtual machines on Mac devices at scale in both educational and corporate environments.
Luba leads the B2B segment for the Parallels Desktop. She works closely with Mac admins in corporate and educational sectors to understand their challenges and improve VM management at scale. With over six years of experience in managing virtualization products, Luba combines her... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT 207Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
Accessibility tools are for everyone. This session will explore some of the more hidden tools and accessibility options in Apple's operating systems -- macOS, iPadOS/iPhoneOS, and VisionOS.
Damien has been supporting Macs for more than 25 years in corporate, small business, and education environments. He currently works as the Apple Platform expert at at Fortune 500 company.
Thursday July 17, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT 206Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
So, I use AppleScript. Probably overuse it, to be honest. And, likely, I use it wrong. To me, it's like a Swiss Army hammer that can clobber any situation that needs automation. I'll share my journey from making a button to detecting them in the UI. Come hear about how I love and misuse this weird, old language, integrating all sorts of other code and API calls into my scripts, and the (hopefully well-commented) trail I've left through my career.
Dave Siederer has been a force in the Apple world for over two decades. These days, he's with AWS, specializing in Amazon's EC2 Mac instances. Prior to that, he led SHI's Apple technical practice for 12 years, creating ZeroTouch to automate iOS deployment. Dave lives in Central NJ... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT 208Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
In this hands-on session, discover how to diagnose and resolve common wireless issues using tools like WiFi Explorer, Airtool, and Wireshark. You’ll leave empowered to confidently diagnose common wireless issues even if you are a beginner.
With over 25 years of IT experience in large Fortune 500 companies as well as non-profits, Jeff Forrest has brought solutions and education to clients in a way that is easy to understand. Jeff fell in love with with a G4 Macintosh because he could edit video and also administer an... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT Deans Hall 2Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
In this session, Charles will facilitate a turn-based role playing game in which the audience pools their wits and experience to solve the fiendish puzzles of Remote Mac Support. Players (that's you!) will take turns attempting to slay increasingly terrifying troubleshooting tasks. Join your companions in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Can the User be trusted? Will you be eaten by a Grue? Do fabulous riches* or humiliating defeat lurk just around the corner? * not actual riches
Charles Mangin enjoys setting up camp at the intersection where divergent disciplines meet: Analog and digital, creative and analytical, the old and the new. He‚Äôs been working with Macs for over three decades, having transitioned into IT by way of graphic design and web development... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT 208Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
Hi there! I started using a Mac while in school back in the early 90s. I have always had an interest in Apple devices since. Currently I am a solutions engineer focused on Healthcare and Life Sciences at Jamf! I've spent the last 15 years wearing many hats supporting Apple devices... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 2:50pm - 3:50pm EDT 206Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
Dear Future Me, I promise to stop leaving you cryptic notes and forgotten wikis. No more digging through old Slack threads or deciphering scripts named fix_this_maybe.sh. Today, I commit to writing clear, versioned, and useful documentation—because you deserve better. Join me for a journey through BBEdit, wikis, Zendesk, and GitHub as we learn to document with love, not regret. Yours faithfully, Past You
For over 25 years, JD has worn many hats as a Mac Admin, Consultant, Apple Authorized Reseller & Service Provider, MSP, technical writer, and co-host of the MacDevOps podcast.
Thursday July 17, 2025 2:50pm - 3:50pm EDT Deans Hall 1Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
A look at the history and evolution of centralized accounts and password syncing, starting with NIS and NetInfo, moving to LDAP and Active Directory, passing through Mobile Accounts, continuing with cloud identity providers, and winding up with Apple's PlatformSSO. Along the way we'll encounter problems, solutions, and tradeoffs. We'll look at tools from both Apple and third-parties to help with some of this.
Staff Systems Engineer, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Greg has been deploying and managing macOS machines for over two decades at Walt Disney Animation Studios, a studio with a long history of family entertainment reaching back to "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and forward to our latest film, "Moana 2". Greg is the creator and lead... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT Deans Hall 2Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
Discover how Rocketman Command Center (RCC) transforms Jamf Pro macOS management by consolidating best practices and automating common Jamf Pro workflows into one free, modular toolkit.
Christopher has been managing Jamf Pro servers since 2015. He started on the Pro Services team and Jamf delivering Jumpstarts (now called Service Engagements) and in 2017 he started Rocketman Tech, with a mission to help companies succeed with Jamf. Since that time, he has helped... Read More →
Patrick Blackmore is the Director of Product & Development at Rocketman Tech, where he leads the development of tools that streamline Jamf Pro workflows. With a focus on product strategy and user-driven solutions, he works closely with engineering teams to deliver efficient, scalable... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT Deans Hall 1Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
