How is any industry supposed to take proactive steps towards solving challenges when executives spend their precious time on panels patting each other’s backs while cyclically agreeing that everything is just dandy? Nowhere is this more evident than in the advertising world, where discussions are almost always nauseatingly over-friendly – to the extent of muddying our core mission of reporting on informative takeaways from so-called addressable experts. This was the unfortunate first impression as Faultline tuned into the opening session from the TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) show, taking place virtually this week, which is otherwise a cracking little event that served as an ideal way to offset the chaos of CES. It took some serious sifting, but the feeling we…