On January 19th, Just Eat hosted us in their London office. Thank you, Sachin Parmar! We had a great turnout and the venue was fantastic. Watch the video below:
Here’s the schedule:
19:00 - 19:30 Arrive & mingle
19:30 - 19:50 “Apple? Got that on Just Eat!” - Sachin Parmar, Just Eat Plc
19:55 - 20:10 ”When lycra meets IT” - James Turner, TCC Global
20:15 - 20:30 “MAU, The People’s updater” - Neil Martin, University of East London
20:30 - 21:00 Open Discussion
21:00 - ?? - To the Pub!
Just Eat’s office can be found at Fleet Place House, with a few tube stations within walking distance.
As always, the event was free to attend.
It wouldn’t be Just Eat if there wasn’t food involved, and certainly was no disappointment there! Sachin kindly arranged a banquet fit for the hungriest of admins - an assortment of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, with loads of pizza (vegetarian and meat)! Nom!
On November 9th, Gett hosted us in their UK office.
The schedule was as per the below:
19:00 - 19:30 Arrive & mingle
19:30 - 19:50 “Cloudy with a chance of IT” - Steve Larsen, Gett
19:55 - 20:10 ”Demystifying Apple School Manager” - Ben Toms, dataJAR ltd
20:15 - 20:30 “Changing of the guard” - the London Apple Admins, admins
20:30 - 21:00 Open Discussion
21:00 - ?? - To the Pub!
The last “talk” was for a farewell to Graham, before his move to the USofA & some information about the London Apple Admins “personnel”.
Gett’s UK office can be found at Seal House, with a few tube stations within walking distance.
As always, the event was free to attend.
A link to a video of the event can be found below:
Our next meet will be on the 7th September 2016 at ITV’s Southbank Studios.
The Schedule is as follows:
19:00 – 19:30 Arrive & mingle
19:30 - 19:35 Welcome & Introduction to ITV
19:35 - 19:45 ITV and Mac management - How ITV went from Windows XP to Mac to managed Macs
19:50 - 20:10 Utilising Casper API for business workflow - How we make automation rock the Kasbah (Casper!)
20:15 - 20:30 Santa - Because AV Sucks, Allister Banks
20:30 – 21:00 Open Discussion
21:00 – ?? – To the Pub!
ITV will be supplying food & drink for the event, but please be aware that you will** need your ticket with you **to be granted access to the site.
ITV Studios are located near the OXO Tower, & can be walked to from Blackfriars, Southwark or the Waterloo stations.
In a London Apple Admins first, we were joined by a remote speaker. Allister Banks presented on Santa, & the following is a worksheet for the talk: https://www.dropbox.com/s/y8baauecl3nl0sk/santaWorksheet.pdf
The video of the event can be found below:
Our 28th July 2016 was at Airbnb’s London office.
The Schedule was as follows:
19:00 - 19:30 Arrive & mingle
19:30 - 19:50 “Being nice with your management tools” - Graham Gilbert, Airbnb
19:55 - 20:10 ”Testing AutoPkg Recipes” - Ben Goodstein, University of Oxford
20:15 - 20:30 “Full Stack DEP: Modern Mac Deployment” - Francois Levaux-Tiffreau
20:30 - 21:00 Open Discussion
21:00 - ?? - To the Pub!
Airbnb’s office is on the fourth floor of 40 Compton Street - look for the wooden door and ring us on the intercom if no one is downstairs to greet you. The nearest tube stations are Barbican or Farringdon.
There will be drinks and pizza, so please register for free on Eventbrite so we have an idea of numbers.
The lovely people at the LSE hosted our June 2016 meet up.
The schedule was:
19:00 - 19:30 Arrive & mingle
19:30 - 19:50 “Embracing Mobility in Higher Education IT” - Yannis Lagogiannis, LSE
19:55 - 20:10 “A Short Dive Into File Level Distribution And Intelligent Down-Loaders” - Christoph Fellner, Filewave
20:15 - 20:30 “Introducing iCalverter: ics to O365 cleanup tool” - Darren Wallace, Amsys
20:30 - 21:00 Open Discussion
21:00 - ?? - George IV
Video of the event can be found below:
The fine folks at ustwo are hosted us at their Shoreditch office.
The schedule is below:
19:00 - 19:30 Arrive & mingle
19:30 - 19:50 “How we do Munki on AWS with Tutum (now Docker Cloud)” - Seb Nash, ustwo
19:55 - 20:10 “Everything you wanted to know about iBeacons but where afraid to ask” - Richard Mallion, Amsys
20:15 - 20:30 TBA
20:30 - 21:00 Open Discussion
21:00 - ? Brewdog
Here is the video of the event: