In October 4-7 2022
MacSysAdmin Online
Tom Bridge (US) Principal Product Manager - JumpCloud
Tom Bridge is Principal Product Manager, Apple at JumpCloud and producer of the Mac Admins Podcast. You can visit him at tombridge.com or on Twitter (@tbridge777).
Armin Briegel (NL) Consultant - scriptingosx.com
Armin Briegel has been managing Macs and their users for nearly 30 years and probably held most existing technical job titles at one time or another. He worked at Apple in Germany and the US as a Systems Engineer and Consulting Engineer. Then, he put theory into practice as a System Administrator at University of Southern California. He currently works as a Consultant from the Netherlands. He writes on his weblog, scriptingosx.com, and has published five books for Apple Administrators.
Weblog: http://scriptingosx.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/scriptingosx
Jason Dettbarn (US) Founder & CEO - Addigy
Jason Dettbarn is the Founder and CEO of Addigy, a world-leading, cloud-based IT management platform for all Apple devices. Following a decade of pioneering embedded software engineering at Motorola and Raymarine, Jason shifted to the IT management software industry at CA (Computer Associates) and later on, Kaseya. With this, he inevitably founded Addigy in 2014 and built it privately to become what it is today: a global leader in Apple device management.
Jason holds a Masters in Computer Science with graduate research in Pervasive Computing & Computer Networks at MIT (Laboratory for Computer Science).
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, inadvertently, and unapologetically responsible for the prevalence of banana references at MacSysAdmin.
Charles C. Edge (US)
Director, Professional Services, Author & Engineer - krypted.com
Charles Edge is the CTO of Bootstrapers.mn, hosts other podcasts including The History of Computing, and has written a few books. You can find more of his work at krypted.com and on Twitter (@cedge318).
Michael Epping (US) Sr. Product Manager - Microsoft
Michael Epping is a Senior Product Manager in the Azure AD Engineering team at Microsoft. He is part of the customer experience team and his role is to accelerate the adoption of cloud services across enterprise customers. Michael helps customers deploy Azure AD features and capabilities via long-term engagements that can last years, as well as working within the engineering organization as an advocate on behalf of those customers.
Michael has more than 9 years of experience working with customers to deploy Microsoft products like Azure AD, Intune, and Office 365. He's spoken at various industry events, such as BSides and The Experts Conference.
Csaba Fitzl (HU)
Developer - Offensive Security
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. Currently he is working as a content developer at Offensive Security, and he is the lead content developer of the "macOS Control Bypasses" training.
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.
Company: Offensive Security Twitter: @theevilbit
Neil Johnson (UK) Principal Program Manager - Microsoft
I started in Enterprise IT during 1996, managing IBM AIX and Sun Solaris in one of the largest banks. I then moved into e-Mail, which led me into Exchange which led me to move to Microsoft in 2006. I’ve worked in support, field engineering, consulting and architecture. The last six years have been spent as a PM in the Intune Engineering org specialising in our macOS capabilities. I’ve been a Mac user since I got a G5 iMac in 2005 for photography and have used macOS as my daily machine since then.
Emily Kausalik-Whittle (US) Enterprise Management Engineer - Jamf
Dr. Emily Kausalik-Whittle is the Apple Enterprise Management Engineer at Jamf. She's an admin of the Mac Admins Slack team, Founder of Austin Apple Admins, and team member of the Mac Admins Podcast. Emily holds a Ph.D. in Music Theory from The University of Texas at Austin, and is based in Austin, Texas.
Robin Laurén (FI) Systems administrator - Reaktor
Robin is a full stack sysadmin at Reaktor since 2013, delivering hugs to workstations, servers, networks and users. He makes tools out of technology and wants his colleagues to feel secure, happy and competent. Robin has a keen interest in usable security, systemic solutions and things that just work. His first appearance on the MacSysadmin stage was with the MSA band Alpha Banana in 2016. Since then, his singing has improved.
When not at work, he listens to podcasts while walking his dog or performs with an amateur theatre company.
Blog: https://robin.lauren.fi MacAdmins' Slack: @llauren Twitter: @RobinLauren
Ed Marczak (US) Sr. Security Engineer - Enterprise Security
Ed Marczak has spent much of his life thinking about people, processes, and technology. His experience spans several companies and roles, including developer, sysadmin, manager, and project manager. An early advocate of Apple products, Ed has written two books focusing on Mac management, co-founded MacTech Conference, and is a familiar face at Apple-related events all over the world. Ed spends his non-compute cycles with his family, and improving his music and photography skills.
Mark Morowczynski (US)
Principal Program Mgr - Microsoft
Mark Morowczynski (@markmorow) is a Principal Program Manager on the customer success team in the Microsoft Identity division. He spends most of his time working with customers on their deployments of Azure Active Directory. Previously he was Premier Field Engineer supporting Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services and Windows Client performance. He was also one of the founders of the AskPFEPlat blog.
He's spoken at various industry events such as Black Hat, Defcon Blue Team Village, Blue Team Con, GrayHat, several BSides, Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Inspire, Microsoft MVP Summits, The Experts Conference (TEC), The Cloud Identity Summit, SANs Security Summits and TechMentor. He can be frequently found on Twitter as @markmorow arguing about baseball and making sometimes funny gifs.
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, “Strange World".
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 greatly misses seeing everyone in Gothenburg.
Howard Oakley (UK) Development Engineer - The Eclectic Light Company
Howard Oakley is a retired medical practitioner who specialised in survival medicine. He started commercial development of software in 1987, working first with maths co-processors (8087) and parallel processors (Inmos Transputer). Since 1989, he has developed for, supported, and written about Macs. Early products were CAD/CAM apps to support laser and other specialist cutting systems.
He has written about Macs over the same period, running the Q&A section in the British MacUser magazine from then until its closure six years ago. He now writes the Genius Tips section for MacFormat, and contributes to Mac|Life too. He has run The Eclectic Light Company blog for over six years, specialising eclectically on Macs and fine art painting. He currently develops in Swift, but just loved Object Pascal, Mac Common Lisp, and APL, and nearly, oh so nearly, went to work running Douglas Adams' computer network. Among his 40+ freeware utilities is The Time Machine Mechanic (T2M2), which checks, explores and diagnoses Time Machine.
Andrew Robinson (JP) Senior IT Support Manager - Opn Co. Ltd. opn.ooo
In the thirty plus years Andrew has been in Japan, he’s worked for large corporations, academic organisations, non-profits, and startups ‘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, PSE - Zentral Pro Services
Henry Stamerjohann lives in Germany and is a returning speaker at MacSysAdmin. He is a consultant, Jamf integrator and co-creator of Zentral, an open source event hub that can control Santa and Osquery. Together with a small team, he runs a consultancy that helps organisations run Zentral at scale. They also provide additional expertise and development capacity to solve particular Apple Platform Management problems.
Tim Standing (US) VP of Engineering - Other World Computing
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 OWC. 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.
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 - SAP
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".
Patrik Wardle (US) Guru - Objective-See
Patrick Wardle is the creator of the non-profit Objective-See Foundation, author of the The Art of Mac Malware book series, and founder of the Objective by the Sea macOS Security conference.
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.
Patrick is passionate about all things related to macOS security and thus spends his days finding 0days, analyzing macOS malware, and writing free open-source security tools to protect Mac users.
Patrik Jerneheim (SE) Crew - MacSysAdmin Conference
With a background working 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.
