First, the conference mobile app rocks. Pretty much everything you need is right there. This IS the paperless conference.
Conference sessions included product updates by SDL people on XPP, Contenta and SDL itself. Good subject track on PDF and 508 compliance. And a range of other topics, gently nudging people toward the CSS and Perl world, making them more accessible and less intimidating for the uninitiated.
Sessions on pickups, XML, variables, etc.
Everyone is learning something!