MacDevOpsYVR 2025
Here is the schedule for our conference (June 11-13, 2025)
NOTE: All times listed in PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) aka UTC -7.
The schedule is subject to change and correction. Please join the Discord server (attendees will get an invite) for more news and updates. Talks will be live streamed to Discord and to Youtube, but all the Q&A will be in Discord.
Check-out the list of speakers for 2025 with talk descriptions and speakers bios.
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Workshop Day – 11 June 2025
| Wednesday June 11, 2025 | Workshop Day + Pre-Conf Social |
| 13:00 | Registration and coffee time |
| 14:00 | Smallstep – ACME attestation |
| 15:00 | Supercharge Homebrew with Workbrew |
| 16:00 | Capture The Flag (CTF) walk through and intro |
| 17:30 – 21:00 | Pre-Conf Social |
MacDevOpsYVR 2025
Day 1 schedule (below) – See the Speakers and Talk descriptions
| Thursday June 12, 2025 | Talks |
|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:55 | Registration and Coffee time ☕️ |
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Mat X – Day 1 Welcome |
| 9:05 – 9:20 | Introduction – GOLD SPONSOR (Smallstep) |
| 9:20 – 9:25 | Introduction – Platinum SPONSOR (Fleet) |
| 9:25 – 9:50 | Fleet – Keynote |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | BREAK ☕️ – Sponsor – Workbrew |
| 10:35 – 11:05 | Graham Gilbert – “The path to staff engineer” |
| 11:10 – 11:40 | Rod Christiansen – “Fully Running Your Munki Repo Operations in DevOps with Git and CI/CD Pipelines” |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Sam Keeley – “Wait, how do I do that again? Saving lots of time and wasting some time with LLMs in 2025” |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 13:05 – 13:35 | Nindi Gill – “Cyprus – The friendly macOS self-remediation helper tool” |
| 13:40 – 14:10 | Nayt Brookes – “Reining in Applications” |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Alan Siu – “Tips for avoiding Munki install loops” |
| 14:45 – 14:50 | SPONSOR – John Britton (Workbrew) |
| 14:55 – 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK ☕️ – Sponsor – Workbrew |
| 15:35 – 15:50 | Carmil Thelemarque – “Introducing GitOps into IT Operations” |
| 15:55 – 16:00 | (QuickTalk) – Teg Bains – “M365 Conditional Access & Addigy” |
| 16:05- 16:10 | (Quick Talk) – Brandon Friess – Modernizing Munki: A Go-powered Approach to Secure Package Distribution |
| (QuickTalk) – Harrison Ravazzolo “Santa’s Little Helper: Managing macOS Security with osquery” | |
| 16:15 – 16:55 | CTF (Capture the Flag) – Nick Z. et. al. |
| 17:00 – 17:05 | Mat X – Day 1 – Thanks |
| 17:10 – 18:00 | SOCIAL – On-site Reception |
Day 2 talks (below) – See the Speakers and Talk descriptions
| Friday June 13, 2025 | Talks |
|---|---|
| All times in PDT (UTC -7) | |
| 8:00 – 8:55 | Coffee time |
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Mat X – Day 2 Welcome |
| 9:10 – 9:15 | Introduction – Bronze SPONSOR (SimpleMDM / PDQ) |
| 9:20 – 9:50 | KEYNOTE – Vince Beiser Author, “Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future” |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | BREAK ☕️ |
| 10:35 – 11:05 | Csaba Fitzl – “Finding Vulnerabilities in Apple packages at Scale” |
| 11:10 – 11:40 | Russell Hancox – “Santa in the summer” |
| 11:45 – 11:55 | Quick Talks |
| (QuickTalk) – Wesley Whetstone – “A not so secret agent” | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 13:05 – 13:35 | Mykola Grymalyuk – “MDM Hygiene – How safe is your Mac fleet?” |
| 13:40 – 14:10 | Kory Prince & Victor De Souza “Securing macOS MDM Enrollments” |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Mike Meyer –“No News is Good News… But What If You Got the News? AI-Powered Monitoring for Fleet MDM Enrollments” |
| 14:50 – 14:55 | CTF Review |
| 15:00 – 15:05 | Human powered AI summary of conference |
| 15:05 – 16:00 | Mac Coffee Ops Hallway Track ☕️with refreshments |
updated: May 31, 2025
Meals provided the conference
Wednesday
– evening at Steamworks social (welcome reception). All food is free.
Thursday
– breakfast is continental / snacks etc
– full lunch
– two coffee breaks with snacks
– post day reception food is free
Friday
– breakfast is continental / snacks etc
– full lunch
– two coffee breaks with snacks