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What's on the Day

Thursday, April 30, 2026

08:30 - 09:15

☕️🎫 Registration

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Pick up your badge, grab a coffee, and start networking with fellow Mac Admins

09:15 - 09:30

🎉 Keynote

Opening

Welcome to Mac Admins Europe 2026

09:30 - 10:15

Session

A Few of Our Favorite (Mac Admin) Things

Armin Briegel

Rob Potvin

A Few of Our Favorite (Mac Admin) Things

Armin and Rob will share a collection of tools, tricks, workflows, and ideas that have made their lives as Mac admins easier (or at least more interesting). Expect practical insights, unexpected discoveries, and a few things you might immediately want to add to your own toolkit. Or as we like to think of it: the kind of knowledge that usually gets shared in hallway conversations — now on stage.

10:15 - 10:40

Sponsor

Securing Developer Workflows (With the Tools They Already Love)

David Starr

Securing Developer Workflows (With the Tools They Already Love)

Developers are often left to manage their own machines - installing what they need through Homebrew, GitHub, and increasingly via AI agents requesting additional tools on their behalf. As this ecosystem expands, security and IT teams struggle to maintain visibility, enforce policy, and prove compliance - especially on Macs operating with elevated administrator privileges. This session explores how to secure macOS developer environments without disrupting how developers need to work. We’ll look at Homebrew as a package manager, Workbrew’s approach to visibility and management for Homebrew, and how to embed governance directly into Git-based workflows developers are already using.

10:40 - 11:10

☕️ Break

Coffee Break

Refresh and visit our exhibitors

11:10 - 11:55

Session

There’s Something Strange in the Management Neighbourhood

Ulrik Aabye-Hansen

There’s Something Strange in the Management Neighbourhood

On April 14th Apple launched Apple Business, a new platform that brings device management, email, calendar, contacts, app distribution and brand tools together in one place. For some businesses, it might replace a stack of separate solutions. Who you gonna call? Increasingly, the answer might just be Apple. In this session we will walk through the key features of Apple Business and share a hands-on look at a real migration from Microsoft 365 to Apple Business for email, calendar and contacts. What worked, what did not, and what surprised us along the way. We will share discoveries around what the platform does well, where it falls short, and which types of organisations are likely to get the most out of it. Whether you are running or helping a small business with no dedicated IT, or a mid-sized organisation looking to simplify their Apple device management, this talk will give you a practical and honest picture of what Apple Business looks like in the real world, and along the way, help a small startup company convert an old Firehouse and multiple challenges into a thriving exterminator business.

11:55 - 12:20

Sponsor

Think Different. Then Update: Software Updates, It's been a journey.

Rachelle Noel

Think Different. Then Update: Software Updates, It's been a journey.

Apple's software update ecosystem has evolved from manual updates to declarative management. Let's take a walk down memory to see how far we have come and where software updates is going.

12:20 - 13:20

🍽️ Lunch

Lunch & Networking

Enjoy lunch, visit exhibitors, and connect with peers

13:20 - 14:05

⭐️ Keynote

Special Guest

More details coming soon

14:05 - 14:50

Session

Trust, But Verify: Exposing Risk in Your App Catalog

Alexandra Smith

Trust, But Verify: Exposing Risk in Your App Catalog

Every day, our user communities request tools to improve their productivity and enhance their working experience, presenting administrators and security analysts with the unique and complex challenge of validating whether an executable is both suitable and safe. In this talk, we'll explore techniques for inspecting the structure of mach binaries, taking a closer look at choices made by developers and threat actors alike that can help us make informed choices about the software we adopt and use.

14:50 - 15:20

☕️ Break

Coffee Break

Last chance to visit exhibitors

15:20 - 15:45

Sponsor

Unlock the future of device management with Fleet

Harrison Ravazzolo

Henry Stamerjohann

Unlock the future of device management with Fleet

Join Fleet Device Management Solutions Consultants Harrison Ravazzolo and Henry Stamerjohann for a practical look at Fleet's infrastructure-as-code approach to device management. Fleet’s API-first design allows admins to control every endpoint management setting with version-controlled YAML files declaratively and push the changes to the Fleet console using GitOps-native capabilities built into the fleetctl CLI binary. In this session you’ll learn about workflows and tools to create self-documenting configuration files and collaborative change management practices. Do what you can’t do clicking a GUI in your legacy solution: see every change, undo any error, repeat every success.

15:45 - 16:30

Session

From Zero to Hero : Making Onboarding Magical

Guillaume Gète

From Zero to Hero : Making Onboarding Magical

First impressions are everything, yet the initial setup is often a source of « notification fatigue » and confusion. This session traces the evolution of macOS interaction, showing how to move from legacy « system beeps » to modern, sophisticated dialogues using powerful tools like Setup Manager, swiftDialog or Support App to guide users without overwhelming them. We will focus on transforming your deployment into a « seamless onboarding » journey that feels native and trustworthy. By mastering the art of the well-timed prompt, you can turn a cold machine into a ready-to-work tool, effectively reducing « day zero » support tickets while creating a truly professional user experience that reflects the quality of the Apple ecosystem.

16:30 - 16:55

Sponsor

The Perpetual Promise of Passkeys & Passwordless

Weldon Dodd

The Perpetual Promise of Passkeys & Passwordless

We've been promised powerful and profound superpowers with a passwordless future powered by passkeys. What are passkeys? What do they do and why do we want them? How does this work with Apple and others? Weldon Dodd from Iru will share powerful principles and pointers to help power a prudent and pragmatic passkey provisioning project to push your powerhouse IT practice towards a peerless passwordless paradise.

16:55 - 17:15

🎬 Keynote

Closing Session

Key takeaways and looking ahead