I really enjoyed the interview of @ned, then the dev panel discussion. As a platform, there have so much improvements from the Steemit team. There are new projects like busy, chainbb, zappl, utopian etc which have born out of Steem blockchain, which is in a way very good. Steem act as enabler for these projects. SMT sounds promising, we need to wait and watch on industry adoption of SMT. Overall the future seems to be bright for Steem.