Tom Bridge (US)
Director of Product Management for Devices - JumpCloud

Tom Bridge is the Director of Product Management for Devices at JumpCloud. A 25-year veteran of Apple IT in the Enterprise, he is also the Co-Chair of the Mac Admins Foundation, and the Producer of the Mac Admins Podcast. He lives in Washington, DC with his family (Tiffany, Charlie, Macro) and uses every chance he can get to ride his bicycle.

Armin Briegel (NL)
Consultant - Jamf/scriptingosx.com

Armin Briegel has been managing Macs and their users since the time when Apple was beleaguered. He has had a vast collection of technical job titles. He worked for at Apple in Germany and the US as a WebObjects and Server Consulting Engineer. Then, he put theory into practice as a System Administrator at University of Southern California. He currently works for Jamf in Europe. He also writes on his weblog, scriptingosx.com and has published books for Apple Administrators.

Weldon Dodd (US)
SVP, Global Solutions - Kandji

Weldon Dodd began his career running a campus Mac lab and NeXT lab at the University of California. He then went to wireless telecom just as digital networks and the Internet came to mobile. The next stage was automating large Apple deployments and running the Apple Authorized Training Center in Colorado. Weldon joined Kandji in early 2020 where he has built and led several teams, and now serves as SVP of Community.

Arek Dreyer (US)
Senior Product Engineer - Kandji

Arek Dreyer is a Senior Product Engineer at Kandji, the Apple device management and security platform. Before joining Kandji, Arek delivered courses and provided training, both in the classroom and at conferences around the world. Dreyer was co-author of macOS Support Essentials, OS X Server Essentials, Managing Apple Devices, and way back to where updating books and courses began for him, Mac OS X Directory Services. Dreyer rhymes with "team player" and he may be initially, partially, inadvertently, and unapologetically responsible for the prevalence of banana references at MacSysAdmin.

Csaba Fitzl (HU)
Developer - Kandji

Csaba Fitzl graduated in 2006 as a computer engineer. He worked for 6 years as a network engineer, troubleshooting and designing big networks. After that, he worked for 8 years as a blue and red teamer focusing on network forensics, malware analysis, adversary simulation, and defense bypasses. Then he moved on to the macOS world and developed a "macOS Exploitation and Penetration Testing" training at OffSec.

Currently he works as a Principal macOS Security Researcher at Kandji. He gave talks and workshops at various international IT security conferences, including Hacktivity, BlackHat, Troopers, SecurityFest, DEFCON, and Objective By The Sea. Csaba spends his free time with his family, hikes and runs in the mountains. Twitter: @theevilbit

Speaker

In a universe where the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary, there exists a master of ceremonies whose words weave spells of anticipation and wonder. This enigmatic figure stands at the crossroads of art and technology, revealing creations that seem to emerge from the very essence of imagination. Their stage is a portal to a world where a simple fruit becomes a symbol of boundless innovation and timeless elegance. With every gesture and every word, they draw back the curtain on the future, leaving the audience in a state of awe and curiosity.

Speaker

In a realm where innovation dances with elegance, there stands a charismatic storyteller. This individual is the face of groundbreaking revelations, unveiling marvels that blend art with technology. They captivate audiences with tales of devices that have become an extension of our lives, all while embodying the spirit of a fruit that symbolizes wisdom and creativity. Their presentations are not just announcements but experiences that leave the world in awe.

Danielle James (UK)
Solutions Architect – Apple at WPP

Danielle is a highly experienced Solutions Architect with over two decades in the IT industry, specialising in the ever-evolving landscape of Apple devices and their ecosystem management. Danielle brings a wealth of expertise in all that is involved in large-scale Apple deployments. Her career spans roles at major organisations such as easyJet, Jigsaw24, Sotheby’s, and Apple where she led high-impact projects, managed Apple enterprise solutions, and provided technical leadership in complex, multicultural environments. 

When Danielle isn’t steering technical strategies, she’s at the helm of a different ship—raising two teenage daughters. An avid advocate for Women in Technology and Architecture, she’s as passionate about breaking tech barriers as she is about breaking stereotypes.

Pete Markowsky (US)
CEO - North Pole Security

Pete is the CEO of North Pole Security and long time Santa contributor. His background is primarily in low-level systems, exploitation, and building tools to monitor operating systems. He most recently worked at Google on their Security Endpoints Agents including Santa. He has presented at ShmooCon, Recon and Objective by the Sea.

Duncan McCracken (AU)
Strategist / Architect / Developer - Jamf

Duncan is a Principal Architect specialising in application lifecycle management at Jamf, after their acquisition of Mondada.
With almost 30 years experience working with Apple and associated products, Duncan has consulted with some of the leading integration companies in Australia and around the world. He is known for his willingness to adapt to new playing fields through embracing different technologies, and his knack for creating modular, re-usable solutions. After the acquisition of Mondada in 2020, Duncan has been a Principal Architect at Jamf, specialising in application lifecycle management.
Duncan has spoken at various Apple-centric conferences around the world, and is looking forward to returning to MacSysAdmin this year.

Marc Nahum (CH)
Senior Program Manager - Microsoft

After studies in Paris, and few years to work there I moved to Switzerland for a large enterprise to manage Active Directory and Citrix Severs. In 2009 with the increase of importance of mobile devices, the need to manage them bring me to this new business for the same company.

After selection, implementation, upgrade, modernisation of MDM and remote access solution my road crossed Intune. During all these years I worked daily, promoted, and made the management of macOS possible. When I joined Microsoft as a PM in the Intune Engineering org it’s naturally that is become my platform of choice

Greg Neagle (US)
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".

Several Mac management tools developed by Greg have been released as open source by Disney Animation. Among those are Munki, a software deployment framework, and Reposado, a platform-agnostic replacement for Apple's Software Update service. He is also a maintainer of the popular AutoPkg tool. Greg has presented on various aspects of macOS management at conferences in Europe and North America. He is pleased to return to Gothenburg for another exciting conference!

Graham Pugh (UK)
Senior Systems Engineer (MSP Svcs) -
Jamf

Graham is a Senior Systems Engineer at Jamf, working in the MSP Services team since January 2024. Of his 22-year career in IT administration, the past 15 have involved the management of Apple devices. He helped engineer a complex, highly automated, on-premises, multi-tenant Jamf Pro environment during his 6.5 years working at ETH Zurich. He also develops various open source tools for the Mac Admin community, is an administrator of the Mac Admins Slack, and maintains an active blog.

Away from the workplace, Graham is a keen runner, hiker, traveller, and Eurovision nerd.

Jeol Rennich (US)
Head of Device Identity - Jumpcloud

Joel Rennich is the Head of Device Identity at JumpCloud residing in the greater Minneapolis, MN area. He focuses primarily on the intersection of identity, users and the devices that they use. While Joel has spent most of his professional career focused on Apple products, at JumpCloud he leads a team focused on bolding going where no devs have gone before across all platforms. Prior to JumpCloud Joel was a director at Jamf helping to make Jamf Connect and other authentication products.

In 2018 Jamf acquired Joel's startup, Orchard & Grove, which is where Joel developed the widely-used open source software NoMAD. Installed on over one million Macs across the globe, NoMAD allows macOS users to get all the benefits of Active Directory without having to be bound to them. Joel also developed other open source software at Orchard & Grove such as DEPNotify and NoMAD Login.

Over the years Joel has been a frequent speaker at a number of conferences including WWDC, MacSysAdmin, MacADUK, Penn State MacAdmins Conference, Objective by the Sea, FIDO Authenticate and others in addition to user groups everywhere.

Joel spent over a decade working at Apple in Enterprise Sales and started the website afp548.com which was the mainstay of Apple system administrator education during the early years of macOS X.

Joel is a classically trained journalist and plied his trade as a paparazzi chasing Monica Lewinsky before rising to become the Director of Photography for United Press International in Washington DC. If you're lucky he'll even tell you some of his Monica stories, as the stories are better than the photos…

Andrew Robinson (JP)
Senior IT Support Mgr. - Krene K.K.

In the thirty plus years Andrew has been in Japan, he’s worked for large corporations, academic organisations, non-profits, and startup ‘unicorns’ — always in multicultural and multilingual environments.

As an Apple and Google platforms specialist, and as the senior IT Support Manager for Opn Co. Ltd in Tokyo, he loves providing the tools people need to be their best at their job.

With a globally distributed workforce that is likely NEVER going back to full-time in-office work, remote deployments and out of the box thinking are in increasing demand, and are what triggered the idea for this year’s presentation.

Andrew’s been a MacSysAdmin attendee for years and is thrilled to be back presenting this year.

Henry Stamerjohann (DE)
Consultant, Co-Founder at - zentral.com

Henry Stamerjohann, based in Germany, is a returning speaker at MacSysAdmin. He is the co-creator of Zentral—an open-source event hub designed to connect the dots in device management. Zentral seamlessly integrates with existing device management tools, providing comprehensive data analysis and serving as a unified solution for managing Osquery, Santa, and Munki through GitOps. It consolidates data into a unified view, enabling easy compliance checks and reporting across multiple sources. The Zentral team is dedicated to helping organizations scale device management, offering opinionated MDM solutions, and solving Apple Platform Management challenges.

Tim Standing (US)
VP Software Development - Mac - OWC

Tim standing has been writing software and drivers for macOS for many years. He is the lead engineer on SoftRAID for Mac and leads the macOS software development team at Other World Computing. When he’s not writing code, or helping others write code, he is perfecting sourdough pizzas or figuring out how many truffles can be made from a 5 kg bar of Belgian chocolate.

JD Strong (US)
Client Platform Engr. - Fleet

Søren Theilgaard (DK)
Apple Specialist - ENVO IT A/S

Mac owner since 1989, and never looked back. Managed Macs since early 1990’s in Denmark and made Enterprise integrations with Macs in organisations. Now employed by ENVO IT where I as MSP manage customer Apple devices. One of the members on Installomator on GitHub.

Long time MacSysAdmin attendee and speaker, and even attended the very first MacSysAdmin event at Nya Varvet back in the olden days.

Rich Trouton (US)
Development Engineer - 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 university, government, medical research, advertising and enterprise software development. His current position is at SAP, where he works with the rest of the Apple@SAP team to support SAP's Apple community.

Rich has also written for Peachpit, Apress and MacTech Magazine on various ways to manage Apple devices. His most recent book with co-author Charles Edge is "Apple Device Management: A Unified Theory of Managing Macs, iPads, iPhones, and AppleTVs".

Brock Walters (US)
Customer Soln. Arch. - Fleet Device Mgmt

Brock Walters is currently a Customer Solutions Architect at Fleet Device Management. Brock has worked in various systems administration & engineering roles at Able Engineering, Jamf, Apple, Starz & Vanguard. Brock always likes to include in his bio that he likes long, romantic walks on the beach & candlelit dinners even though it's a dumb thing to say & it's actually not true.

Patrick Wardle (US)
Founder - Objective-See Foundation

Patrick Wardle is the CEO and Cofounder of DoubleYou, the founder of the non-profit Objective-See Foundation, and the author of "The Art of Mac Malware" book series. Having worked at NASA and the NSA, as well as presenting at countless security conferences, he is intimately familiar with aliens, spies, and talking nerdy.

Passionate about macOS security, Patrick spends his days discovering Apple 0days, studying macOS malware, and releasing free open-source security tools to protect Mac users.

Matt White (US)
Head of Agent Dev.- North Pole Security

Matt is the head of agent development at North Pole Security. He primarily focuses on macOS development where he works to add and enhance security capabilities to protect users.

Sameer Yadav (US)
Device Management - Microsoft

Started career out college at Microsoft working as a Product Manager on several products such as Office365, Bing, Windows/Entra, and most recently Intune.

Moved to Stockholm 2 years ago to focused on helping customers become successful with Apple device management with Intune.

Katiuscia Zehnder (CH)
Senior Systems Engineer - ETH Zürich

Kati stepped into the Higher Education area during her bachelor's degree in informatics and has been with ETH since 2007. Apple has been ingrained in her work from early on, and since 2010 she's been constantly working on improving the Apple deployment solution; since 2017 based on Jamf Pro.

She spends her spare time with her family, likes to travel the world, enjoys fine dining, and as a distraction to the bits and bytes she likes handicrafts and sewing things.

Patrik Jerneheim (SE)
Crew - MacSysAdmin AB

With a background as a music teacher and after several years in the publishing business, going all-in macOS was a no brainer. Patrik has spent the latter part of his career as trainer and consultant focusing on Apple management with Jamf.

Together with Tycho Sjögren, the founder of the MacSysAdmin Conference, he has spread the Apple gospel in the northern part of the world for the better part of two decades.