About MacDayLA and The People Behind It

Our Selection Process

We aim to bring the highest quality and most effective products, services and information to our attendees. Our selection criteria applies to sponsors, vendors, manufacturers, experts, products and services. We take great care to know and believe in the products we show you. MacDayLA is a sponsored event, but rest assured that time in front of our audiences simply cannot be bought.

Our Feature Presentations are by invitation only.

• If you wish to come show a software title or piece of hardware, please contact us with as much information as you can provide. If you know that we are not familiar with your product, please let us know how you can arrange for us to evaluate it.
• If you're a consultant or author and wish to be an Expert Presenter, please send us or point us to a full bio and let us know your expertise. Please do not send us your proposed topic or presentation as we have many topics planned and many experts on hand and do not want you to ever think we have taken your idea.

MacDayLA makes every effort to showcase products, companies and individuals from the local marketplace whenever possible.

In addition to featured presenters, we can host a few vendors who wish to show/sell Mac-related products. There is a small fee to do so and we must be familiar with your products and feel able to recommend them.

Although we do not guarantee any product, we’d like to hear from you if you feel any product you see at MacDayLA does not deliver as promised.

The Story of MacDayLA

MacDayLA™ was born out of numerous requests from both Mac users and the makers/sellers of Mac-related products. It is the realization of an event Deborah Shadovitz has wanted to create for over 10 years. It is part of her never-ending quest to create opportunities for people to get together and learn from one another — particularly about the Macintosh computer and the power it can give people to make their lives better and fuller.

Great things can happen when people get together and share what they know or even work together to figure out how to do something they don’t yet know. That’s a key philosophy behind MacDayLA.

Great software and hardware should be introduced to people who seek it. It should be discovered, and ideally properly demonstrated. That’s another key behind MacDayLA.

The Mac is fun and easy.
We believe learning about it should be too.
Come join us as we make it so.

MacDayLA is not a User Group. Mac User Groups provide other benefits that you may wish to look into. You can find them by visiting Apple.com/UserGroups. To help you learn about Mac User Groups we will be offering all MUG leaders name badges that say User Group on them. Groups are also invited to put out literature or business cards for you.

About Deborah Shadovitz

By trade, Deborah Shadovitz is actually a Mac instructor, consultant, and author. In the decade past she penned several books, a newspaper column, a magazine column and a popular web column. Since 2002 she has been a Contributing Editor to MacAddict, which is now called MacLife magazine. She also writes about other aspects of life for other types of publications.

Deborah has also created other Mac events. During Macworld Expo she runs the Mac Mingle, a party that broke the party mold by being open to all Macworld Expo attendees without need of a ticket. (It was originally called the Party For The People.) She also produces the MacGathering™ for Southern California.

About Muna Deriane

Muna Deriane comes from a business background. Her primary role is business-building and advising. She has been a bit busy working on helping create this event so she hasn’t taken the time to write a bio for us yet. We’ll get one here as soon as possible. Meanwhile, she can be a deep dark mystery to those of you who have not met her yet. (Maybe she is to those of us who know her, too.)

Other Great Folks

There are a few other great people helping to make MacDayLA a worthwhile event. We’ll tell you about them shortly.