EventBuilder
Vistra
2026 WBENC National Conference - Salt Lake City

Vistra's webinar.net Platform Gets Enterprise-Grade Microsoft Teams Integration

Human-led event services with advanced registration workflows and compliance for Vistra's 6,850-person organization across retail electricity and power generation divisions

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We've Been Studying Vistra

Vistra operates as one of the largest competitive power generators in the U.S. with approximately 6,850 employees and $17.22 billion in revenue, managing both retail electricity operations and a diverse power generation portfolio spanning nuclear, natural gas, coal, solar, and battery storage facilities. Your Oracle PeopleSoft ERP and Workday Benefits infrastructure suggests a Microsoft-forward technology environment that could benefit from Teams-native event solutions.

Your current webinar.net platform handles basic webinar delivery, but as Vistra navigates the energy transition with new solar and battery storage projects while managing community resistance to facility development, your marketing and communications teams need advanced registration intelligence, attendee gating, and compliance-grade security that webinar.net cannot provide within your existing Microsoft ecosystem.

The combination of Vistra's scale (spanning retail electricity, nuclear power, and renewable energy divisions), regulatory environment, and recent battery facility safety incidents creates a perfect use case for EventBuilder's ISO 27001/27701 certified, Microsoft-native event platform with human-led execution that ensures zero technical failures during critical stakeholder communications.

How EventBuilder Enhances Vistra's Event Capabilities

Tyra Jordan
Senior Manager, Business Marketing, Sponsorships & Events
Challenge: Tyra manages Vistra's webinar programs and sponsorship events, requiring flawless execution for stakeholder communications about battery facility safety incidents and community engagement initiatives, where technical failures could impact regulatory relationships and public trust.
Our Solution: EventBuilder's Production & Live Event services provide 24/5 human-led support with speaker rehearsals, live moderation, and real-time troubleshooting inside Microsoft Teams, ensuring zero technical failures during critical communications.
EventBuilder delivered 400+ events reaching 180,000 registrants for Microsoft Commercial Licensing without technical incidents.
Peter Zafiridis
Senior Director Of Marketing
Challenge: Peter oversees marketing programs that must integrate seamlessly with Vistra's Oracle PeopleSoft ERP and Workday Benefits systems while maintaining security compliance across retail electricity and power generation divisions without adding new platforms for IT to govern.
Our Solution: EventBuilder's Registration & Compliance services extend Microsoft Teams with advanced registration workflows, attendee gating, and ISO 27001/27701 certification, operating within Vistra's existing Microsoft environment without requiring new security reviews.
EventBuilder delivered secure large-scale town halls inside a restricted GCC High tenant with zero compliance issues.
Sydney Seiger
Senior Vice President And Chief Marketing Officer
Challenge: Sydney leads B2B marketing strategy for Vistra's energy transition initiatives, requiring sophisticated webinar programs with clean data capture for CRM integration to track engagement across nuclear, solar, and battery storage stakeholder communications while managing community resistance messaging.
Our Solution: EventBuilder's Strategy & Demand services optimize B2B webinars with advanced registration intelligence (gating, waitlists, segmented access) plus custom CRM exports and KPI-based reporting that flows directly into Vistra's business intelligence stack.
EventBuilder supports about 500 sessions per month for Microsoft Enterprise Support Digital with full CRM integration and custom reporting.

Proven Results with Microsoft-Forward Organizations

"We have been using EventBuilder for our partner events and have great success with the platform. The EventBuilder team is very responsive with excellent customer service. We always get a thorough answer the first time."
— Mike Iem, Senior Program Manager, IoT Marketing and Partner Events, Microsoft
"EventBuilder was one of the organizations that was more forward thinking than the other options we were considering. Not only did they integrate with Microsoft products, as we are a Microsoft shop, but the platform allowed for a very streamlined process to create and manage events."
— Alice Liang, CEO, SolarTech (competitive displacement in Microsoft-shop evaluation)

75,000+

Events delivered for Microsoft alone

180,000

Registrants reached in one partner program

24/5

Live support coverage during events

Why Vistra + EventBuilder

Microsoft-Native

Built inside Teams and Town Hall, not bolted on. No new platform for your IT team to secure alongside Oracle PeopleSoft and Workday.

Service-Led

Real humans own the outcome with 24/5 coverage, speaker rehearsals, and live moderation — not a help center.

Compliance-Ready

ISO 27001/27701 certified, SSPA Green, Microsoft Preferred Supplier (MSP #003000922) for regulated energy environments.

Women-Owned

WBENC, OMWBE, WOSB, and SBA certified, unlocking supplier diversity paths for Vistra procurement.

See EventBuilder in Action for Vistra

Next Step Options:

15-min Teams demo: Registration workflows for energy stakeholder events 30-min call: How Microsoft partners eliminate webinar platform sprawl