Dean Ellerby

Microsoft Security MVP · Conference speaker · Event organiser

Dean Ellerby

I teach IT pros how to run Microsoft Intune and endpoint security properly: on conference stages, on YouTube, and at the events I organise. Expect live demos, honest verdicts and the occasional Mac with other ideas.

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Dean Ellerby

Figures as of September 2026.

Speaking

57 talks, panels, webinars and podcasts since 2021, including 32 sessions at conferences in 8 countries. I speak about Microsoft Intune, Windows Autopilot, Entra ID, Defender for Endpoint and Apple device management, usually with a live tenant on screen. Every entry links to the organiser's agenda or a recording (for Ignite 2023, my own post from the event), so you don't have to take my word for any of it.

Sessionize listed me among its Most Active Speakers of 2025: 1,163 speakers, the most active 3% of around 39,000 with an accepted session that year. Where an agenda labels a slot as a sponsor session, so do I. Robopack, SoftwareCentral and Tenant Manager are my employer's brands.

On stage

  • Experts Live UK 2026 London, UK · an event I co-organise

    • Intune Academy Live Workshop, a full day with Andrew Taylor, Steve Weiner, James Robinson and Lewis Barry
    • It's not you; it's apps (and baselines, and backups, and...), with Steve Weiner (sponsor session)
    • Ask Robopack Anything!, with Steve Weiner and Andrew Taylor (sponsor session)

  • Workplace Ninjas Norway 2026 Oslo, Norway

    It's not you; it's apps (and baselines, and backups, and...)

  • EUCtech Denmark Conference 2026 Billund, Denmark

    Completing the Intune Admin's Toolkit: How to manage Intune at scale without scripts, stress, or shortcuts, with Andrew Taylor

  • Experts Live Denmark 2026 Copenhagen, Denmark

    Running Intune the right way in 2026, with Andrew Taylor (sponsor-track session)

  • Cloud Tech Tallinn 2026 Tallinn, Estonia

    Modern Third-Party Patching in Intune

  • Workplace Ninjas US 2025 Dallas, USA

    • An Introduction to Microsoft Graph for Intune Management, with Steve Weiner and Andrew Taylor
    • Mastering App Deployment and Lifecycle Management with Intune, with Andrew Taylor and Steve Weiner (sponsor session)

  • Microsoft Ignite 2025 San Francisco, USA

    Community Connection Pod: Best practices and blockers with moving apps to Intune (COM1049), a community discussion for up to 15 people

  • Experts Live Emirates 2025 Dubai, UAE

    • Completing the Intune admins toolkit, with Andrew Taylor, on the main stage
    • Ask Me Anything: Real-World Insights from Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Intune Experts, a panel with Christiaan Brinkhoff, Marcel Meurer, Andrew Taylor and others

  • MMS 2025 Music City Edition Nashville, USA

    • Remastered: Transitioning to Autopilot Device Preparation, with Steve Weiner. The organisers told me it was the session most added to attendees' schedules, so they scheduled a second run.
    • Migrating from Hybrid to Cloud Only: What Works and What Doesn't, with Lewis Barry and Steve Weiner
    • Managing macOS with Intune: A Deep Dive, with Nathan McNulty and Peter Daalmans
    • What Do You Mean - No More VPNs?, with Gerry Hampson
    • Getting Started with YouTube: A Beginner's Guide, with Steve Weiner
    • Speaker Jam Session, an informal open Q&A with Steve Weiner

  • Workplace Ninja Summit 2025 Baden, Switzerland

    • Cloud-Native App Migration to Intune: Your Fast Track to AI-Ready Management, with Lior Bela, Samit Halvadia and Mattias Melkersen
    • Completing the Intune Admin's Toolkit: Managing Intune at scale, with Harjit Dhaliwal and Andrew Taylor (sponsor session)

  • Workplace Ninjas UK 2025 Edinburgh, UK · an event I co-organised

    Discover, Patch, Automate: Closing Vulnerability Gaps in Intune with Robopack, with Ronnie Emilio Tynell

  • Workplace Ninjas Norway 2025 Oslo, Norway

    Discover, patch, automate: closing vulnerability gaps in Intune with Robopack, with Ronnie Emilio Tynell

  • Modern Endpoint Management Summit 2025 Paris, France

    Discover, patch, automate: closing vulnerability gaps in Intune with Robopack, with Ronnie Emilio Tynell (sponsor session)

  • Cloud Tech Tallinn 2025 Tallinn, Estonia

    • The art of effortless app patching and security, with Andrew Taylor
    • How to Step-Up Your Cybersecurity: A Panel Discussion, co-moderating with Jan Ketil Skanke, with Sami Laiho, Jon Jarvis and Katie McMillan

  • Workplace Ninjas UK on Tour London, UK · an event I co-organised

    Intune and Security Ask Us Anything, a panel of Microsoft MVPs

  • Microsoft Ignite 2023 Seattle, USA

    Expert Meetup: Security, an in-person Q&A

  • MMS 2023 Miami Beach Edition Miami Beach, USA

    • Managing Mac Devices With Intune - The Secrets Jamf Don't Want You to Know!, with Peter Daalmans
    • Defend All the Things: Managing Server Security With Defender for Endpoint and Intune, with Steven Hosking
    • Building Zero-Trust Conditional Access: Securing Access with Azure and Microsoft Entra, with Kent Agerlund and Andreas Sobczyk
    • Android and IOS in the Enterprise, a nightmare for IT?, with Peter Daalmans

  • Workplace Ninja Summit 2022 Lucerne, Switzerland

    OSDCloud: OS Deployment from Azure Storage, with David Segura

Online conferences, user groups and webinars

Podcasts and guest appearances

What attendees say

Every score says how many people answered, and some samples are small. One more caveat: I co-organise Experts Live UK, so the workshop figures come from my own event's survey. They are unedited.

A full room at the Intune Academy workshop at Experts Live UK 2026 in London, with Dean Ellerby at the presenters' table on the left
The Intune Academy workshop at Experts Live UK 2026, London.

Intune Academy workshop, Experts Live UK 2026

Co-presented with Andrew Taylor, Steve Weiner, James Robinson and Lewis Barry, so these scores are shared.

  • 5.00 / 5 for the speakers: all 9 respondents gave 5.
  • 4.89 / 5 for session quality, from the same 9 responses.
  • 9 of 9 learned something they could use, and would come again.
  • 12 of 29 attendees who named a best session of the whole event picked this workshop, more than any other session.

“Endpoints made easy! I attended knowledgeable but left an expert - already signed up for next year.”

Adam, Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, on the Intune Academy workshop

MMS 2025, Nashville

Ran twice

The organisers scheduled my Autopilot Device Preparation session with Steve Weiner a second time. They told us it was the session most added to attendees' schedules.

Intune for Windows Training

4.52 / 5

From 4,072 ratings by 15,986 students on Udemy. Across all 20 of my Udemy courses: 25,101 learners and 5,534 reviews.

Microsoft Intune blog, June 2026

Linked by Microsoft

The Intune team linked my E3 vs E5 video and named me among the contributing MVPs in their post on Intune Suite capabilities.

Events I organise

Community-run conferences for people who run Microsoft Intune, security and modern work in production. I run the tech and operations, and speak at them too.

Experts Live UK

Co-organiser. London's community conference for Microsoft technology, and the successor to Workplace Ninjas UK.

2026: 11–12 June at CodeNode, London. 296 attendees, 45 sessions across 5 tracks, and 5 workshops. Attendees rated it 4.60 out of 5 overall, with an NPS of 74.5 (47 responses, not counting two test submissions).

2027: 18–20 May at CodeNode, London. A workshop day, then two conference days.

Workplace Ninjas UK

Co-organiser. The UK community for Microsoft endpoint management and modern work. Its conference became Experts Live UK in 2026.

2025: 16–17 June at the EICC, Edinburgh. 65 sessions across 8 tracks.

2024: 2 July at Everyman Cinema, Manchester, a free one-day conference with more than 15 sessions. Before that, Workplace Ninjas UK on Tour at Curzon Hoxton, London, on 7 February.

User group: 7 meetups from August 2022 to February 2024. 739 members, rated 4.7 out of 5 from 45 reviews on Meetup.

“They say ‘never meet your heroes’ but I disagree. They are approachable, knowledgeable, funny and on the same journey of discovery as the rest of us.”

Vince, Lightsource BP, Experts Live UK 2026 attendee

“Great conference with awesome people and speakers. Learned a ton in just two days.”

Henning, consultex IT GmbH, Experts Live UK 2026 attendee

YouTube

Dean Ellerby MVP is where I test Microsoft's claims on a real tenant and say what I found: 293 videos on Intune, Autopilot, Entra ID, Defender and Apple management since November 2021, plus livestreams with community friends including Andrew Taylor, Steve Weiner and Hailey Phillips.

13.6k subscribers and 1,371,288 views as of September 2026.

Training and writing

Udemy

20 courses, 25,101 learners. Intune for Windows Training was fully re-recorded for 2026.

Pluralsight

Author of 8 courses.

Petri

34 articles since October 2021, from Windows Autopilot to moving off hybrid identity.

Intune Academy

Free Intune training from Robopack, which I announced on my channel in May 2026.

For organisers

Bio (use as-is or trim):

Dean Ellerby is a Microsoft Security MVP from the North East of England and Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at Robopack. Since 2021 he has given 57 talks, panels, webinars and podcasts, including 32 sessions at conferences in 8 countries such as MMS, Workplace Ninja Summit and Experts Live, and community sessions at Microsoft Ignite. Sessionize listed him among its most active speakers of 2025. He co-organises Experts Live UK, London's community conference for Microsoft technology, runs the Dean Ellerby MVP YouTube channel (13.6k subscribers), and has taught 25,101 learners on Udemy.

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