The other announcement[1] from EPFL last week was the establishment of Scala Center, which is already staffed: http://search.epfl.ch/ubrowse.action?acro=SCALA-GE

The Center's mission: "Organize open source projects around Scala".

About scala-native, no details are given on whether it targets scalac or Dotty (which another talk [2] describes as a couple years away from production-ready). The situation could change if, say, Akka or Play announced a Roadmap for Dotty.

[1] Martin Odersky: "Scala in 2016". http://files.meetup.com/18712511/Scala2016.pdf

[2] ScalaSphere: Guillaume Martres "Hacking on Dotty: a live demo". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOYGeZLHs4