(IN)PRACTICE: How Great Ideas Get Made

​Join Ben Odell (CEO, 3Pas Studios) and Akshay Mehta (CEO, Lighthouse Studios) for a conversation on building at the collision of legacy Hollywood and the creator economy.

​Ben spent his career in traditional film and TV before building 3Pas around Eugenio Derbez's 90M-follower audience. Akshay came up through CAA Media Finance and Good Universe before taking over Lighthouse Studios, where he's building a TV-style programming network out of creator talent — starting with the Cole Bennett/Lyrical Lemonade deal. Different paths, same bet: that the next generation of media companies gets built by people fluent in both systems, not by picking one side.

​This session is for anyone trying to operate at that intersection — producers, executives, brand strategists, investors — who need practical models, not theory.

​What we'll cover:

• ​How legacy production experience becomes an asset (not baggage) in the creator economy

• ​Building distribution infrastructure around creators without flattening what makes them work

• ​Where studio-style deal structures apply to creator economics, and where they break

• ​What each system still doesn't understand about the other

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