It started out as a SharePoint Saturday, became an Office 365 Saturday, then a Microsoft 365 Saturday, but has evolved to the month-long event now known as M365 May.

Despite the identity crisis, there were a number of challenges to bring this event online. Notwithstanding the extraordinary effort co-ordinating more than 100 speakers, and 140 sessions, over 29 days, the technology behind the online event needed to scale, and needed to be easy to manage on a moment's notice.

Combining Microsoft Teams, with the online events co-ordination tool Sessionize, we quickly deployed a solution that allows attendees to select the sessions they want, and be sent to their sessions in Teams live events, Teams meetings, or even YouTube, when it's time to go live.

Loryan and Mark will take this opportunity to dive in to the tech that made this month-long event possible. Serverless compute to process requests, data storage to augment already existing data, and globally distributed content via Microsoft CDN. All this brought the best of the SaaS world together, with a custom build, low code solution.