MacDevOpsYVR 2024
Here is the schedule for our conference (June 19-21, 2024)
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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NOTE: All times in PDT (UTC -7)
| Wednesday June 19, 2024 | Workshop Day + Pre-Conf Social |
| 9:30 | Registration and Coffee |
| 10:00 | swift Dialog workshop with Bart Reardon |
| 12:30 | BREAK |
| 13:00 | Fleet workshop with JD and cast of others |
| 14:00 | Osquery workshop with Sharvil Shah (and friends) |
| 17:30 – 21:00 | Pre-Conf Social sponsored by Fleet DM (at Steamworks Brewing) |
MacDevOpsYVR 2024
Day 1 and Day 2 schedule (below)
| Thursday June 20, 2024 | Talks |
|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:55 | Registration and Coffee time ☕️ |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Mat X – Day 1 Welcome |
| 9:20 – 9:50 | How to Contribute to Open source (Greg Neagle) |
| 9:55 – 10:25 | swiftDialog Open Source Journey (Bart Reardon) |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | BREAK ☕️ – Sponsor – Workbrew |
| 10:55 – 11:10 | mSCP + Munki + Compliance (Henry Stamerjohann) |
| 11:15 – 11:35 | Quick Talks: SOFA (Henry Stamerjohann) Getting People to Actually Use Managed Software Center (Rebecca Latimer), Shortcuts (Patrick Kelleher), 30 Years (Alex Narvey) |
| 11:40 – 11:55 | UpgradeBuddy: Be a buddy, not a bother (Zack McCauley) |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 13:05 – 13:35 | Building Diverse Client Engineering Teams (Graham Gilbert) |
| 13:40 – 14:10 | Supercharged CI/CD with GitHub and AWS (Bryson Tyrrell) |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | The Importence of QA (H) |
| 14:35 – 15:05 | BREAK ☕️ – Sponsor – Workbrew |
| 15:10 – 15:25 | Targeting with Predicates in Declarative Device Management (Zach W. – Fleet) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Terraforming SimpleMDM (David K.) |
| 16:05 – 16:30 | MDM migration with macOS Sonoma (Kevin M. Cox) |
| 16:35 – 16:55 | Quick Talks |
| 17:00 – 17:05 | Mat X – Day 1 – Thanks |
| 17:10 – 17:25 | SPECIAL GUESTS |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | SOCIAL – On-site Reception |
| Friday June 21, 2024 | Talks |
|---|---|
| All times in PDT (UTC -7) | |
| 8:00 – 8:55 | Coffee time |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Mat X – Day 2 Welcome |
| 9:20 – 9:50 | The (Mis)Education of macOS Security Internals (Stuart A.) |
| 9:55 – 10:25 | Electron Security: Making your Mac a worse place? (Mykola G.) |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | BREAK ☕️ – Sponsor – DBQ Technology |
| 10:55 – 11:25 | The Keychain Quandary Conundrum (Wesley Whetstone) |
| 11:30 – 11:35 | Leveraging osquery data from Fleet for device health using low code solutions and gitops workflows (Harrison Ravazzolo) |
| 11:40 – 11:55 | Quick Talks |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 13:05 – 13:35 | MDM for control freaks (Katie English) |
| 13:40 – 14:10 | Xsan in 2024, is that still a thing? Media Production Storage – Cloud, NAS, and …Xsan. (Eric H.) |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Quick Talks |
| 14:50 – 15:00 | Mat X – Closing Remarks |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Mac Coffee Ops Hallway Track ☕️with refreshments |
updated: June 1, 2024