AI Salon St. Pete/Tampa Panel

Back to the Future of Work — Part IIThe AI Almanac: Designing the AI-Native WorkforceFormat: Systems-Level Panel + DebateCo-Hosted by: AI Salon St. Pete/Tampa, Fractio & spARK Labs by ARK Invest Presented for Tampa Bay Tech Week Last year’s Back to the Future of Work explored how AI is transforming work.Part II goes deeper—into design and structure. When AI collapses execution costs, but systems for training, measuring, and compensating work remain unchanged, distortion emerges. Just like Back to the Future Part II, the tension isn’t about the technology—it’s about who controls the information advantage. AI is today’s Almanac. This session reframes the modern knowledge worker into two emerging roles: Knowledge Architects — strategic leaders who design AI-enabled, outcome-driven systems and drive organizational velocityKnowledge Engineers — specialists who use AI to amplify expertise, scale delivery, and produce verifiable outcomes Panel Flow Opening Thesis (7 min): The AI Almanac & the Rise of Architects and EngineersSegment I – Capability Layer: How AI-native professionals are trained to orchestrate AI (CodeBoxx)Segment II – Economic Layer: Why pricing and attribution must evolve (Fractio)Segment III – Real-World Operator Debate: Who captures value when AI contributes to output?Segment IV – 5-Year Forecast: What collapses, what survives, what emerges Speakers / Moderator Fatin Kwasny, Fractio (Moderator)Nicolas Genest, CodeBoxxJon Mest, ChatRankKrystal A. Little, Paygent.aiMarvin Scaff, Stealth StartupWhy This Session MattersThis is not another AI panel. It’s a reclassification of professional identity, a redesign of incentive systems, and a forward-looking blueprint for the AI-native workforce.