Community Days | About
Our Mission
Community Days is dedicated to the volunteer organizers around the world who give countless hours to host free and low-cost technical training events. Built on the legacy of the SharePoint Saturday not-for-profit team, it embraces the full Microsoft ecosystem — if an event is 50% or more Microsoft tech, from Azure to Dynamics 365 to Microsoft 365, it belongs here.
It is the central listing for Microsoft-focused community events: organizers showcase their events with topics, speakers, agendas, and sponsorship opportunities; attendees discover local, hybrid, and virtual sessions; speakers find calls for papers worldwide; and sponsors connect with events seeking support.
We also support M365 Community Days events — broad Microsoft 365 conferences that operate under the Community Days name (see the FAQ for details). Learn more about the broader Microsoft Community to expand your skills and meet people on the same journey.
Our Story
Community Days began the day SPSEvents.org — the long-running home of SharePoint Saturday event listings — announced it was shutting down. In November 2021, after the closing session of the virtual Microsoft 365 Philly event, Jason Rivera, Manpreet Singh, and Thomas Daly stayed on the call to talk about what its loss would mean. By the end of that conversation they had agreed: the community needed a central place to find and host events, and they would build it.
The site was designed and built by Thomas Daly, a Microsoft 365 Apps & Services MVP and founder of SharePoint Saturday New York Metro. After more than a decade organizing Microsoft tech events across the NY/NJ/PA region, Tom turned that experience into this volunteer project — built for the global community it serves.
Today, Community Days is recognized by the Microsoft Global Community Initiative as a tool for event organizers, and is showcased every other week on the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform (PnP) community call.
Official Launch & Milestones
Since then, Community Days has grown into a trusted platform where organizers can publish events, speakers can discover opportunities, sponsors can connect with events, and attendees can find the training they need.
Stats & Impact
Contributors
The site could not have been made possible without the help of volunteers. Below is our group of individuals that have offered their time to be part of the design, creation and testing of various parts of this website. If you are interested in helping out, please reach out to us. There is no contribution too small.
Have suggestions or feedback? Send us a message.
Active (17)
Thomas Daly
Heather Cook
Shari L. Oswald, MVP, MCT
Christine Geluk
Jason Rivera
Russ Onizuka
Augustine Correa
Hal Hostetler
Ajay Bramhe - AZC
Jamel ABED
Marcus Cadena
Bryan Hart
Sucheta Gawade
Wes Preston
Mike Maadarani
Diego Domingos da Silva
Manpreet Singh
All (42)
Support & Partnership
Community Days is fully designed, built, enhanced, operated, and maintained by volunteer efforts. Microsoft, through the Microsoft Global Community Initiative, provides support and hosting for the site. MGCI is Microsoft's initiative to support the global technical community, and Community Days is one tool in that comprehensive toolbox. They offer a vast collection of resources for event organizers and have a dedicated support team in place, ensuring that the community has a reliable platform to continue growing worldwide.
Sponsors
