Awesome presentation Matt_Coles, very complete and thoroughly interesting.
My main project works on a similar theme, hired to clean up with limited resources so its good to see a similar approach happening.
My beef with a few educational providers within this industry is to stay away from high end engines like UT because of the false sense of Game Dev requirements using those engines produce and because software like 3DGS only requires a one off payment schedule with no hidden costs BUT anyone can be a 'real' game developer.