In other news nothing news worthing came out of this conference.
Depends what you classify as news worthy. As far as anybody is likely to have homebrew and ROMs on the Wii U in the near future not so much. In terms of an interesting breakdown of the system (a reasonably modern embedded system which cares about security) and its failings then it was great.
Several of the other presentations have had great stuff too and there are still more to come.