Dan Toomey presented on building event-driven integration architectures using Azure services. He discussed key event concepts like event types and event sourcing versus event notification. Event Grid was highlighted as a serverless solution for handling events and reacting to state changes across Azure resources and external webhooks. Toomey advocated for an event-driven design approach to build cost-effective and responsive cloud applications, and recommended choosing the appropriate Azure messaging service like Event Grid, Event Hubs or Service Bus based on your specific needs.