This year’s FUTURE NOW Media and Entertainment Conference opened with a networking workshop led by Pasquale Bisecco, who asked us to write down a challenge we wanted to overcome or something we wanted to accomplish over the next three days. I looked down at my notebook and wrote: “How do I even begin to learn and dive into the abyss of knowledge without so much as a map or compass to figure it out?” I quickly realized that while I had left last year’s conference understanding that it was okay...

At first, I didn’t say much. I was way out of my depth. Sitting at the table, surrounded by professionals with decades of experience and...