Pricilla Ricapa

I'm an economist, MBA and technology strategist at the intersection of AI infrastructure, quantum computing, and capital markets. I translate the most complex technology shifts of our time into strategic clarity — for leaders, investors, and curious minds.

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✦ WEF Davos 2025✦ MIT✦ Harvard✦ TEDxMIT & TEDxBoston✦ IEEE✦ QuEra · IBM Quantum · Qblox✦ Dassault Systèmes✦ WEF Davos 2025✦ MIT✦ Harvard✦ TEDxMIT & TEDxBoston✦ IEEE✦ QuEra · IBM Quantum · Qblox✦ Dassault Systèmes
About

Economist. Strategist. Frontier tech translator.

I'm a Peruvian-born economist and MBA, based in Boston, operating at the crossroads of AI infrastructure, quantum computing, and strategic communication. My path has been intentionally diverse — and that's the point.

I started my career in financial analysis and investor relations at JRC and Repsol Peru, managing 20+ institutional investor events annually and leading IR strategy across Latin America. I also built experience in consumer goods and beauty at Belcorp, one of Latin America's largest beauty multinationals.

From there I joined Volvo Group, where I worked on digital transformation and built Dr. Volvo — an AI-powered diagnostic app for vehicle health monitoring. That experience deepened my conviction that the most powerful innovations happen when domain expertise meets emerging technology.

I then moved to Silicon Valley, joining Lumentum Holdings as a Product & AI Strategy analyst — where I contributed to RAGS (Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems) for enterprise AI, working at the frontier of photonics and AI infrastructure, and earning the company's Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging scholarship.

I've also co-founded Prifit, an early-stage fitness & apparel startup building at the intersection of performance culture, community, and smart design.

For the past two years I've been an active participant in the global AI and quantum conversation — attending events at WEF Davos, MIT, Harvard, TEDxBoston, IEEE, Dassault Systèmes and more. I've been in the room with the CEOs, researchers, and founders actually building this future. I'm not a physicist or a computer scientist. I'm a strategic translator: someone with enough depth to follow the technical conversations, and enough communication skill to make them legible for the people who need to act on them.

First-generation Peruvian MBA. Fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Follow my weekly analysis on LinkedIn →

Industries I've worked across
⚡ Oil & Gas · Energy💄 Beauty · Consumer Goods💡 Photonics · Deep Tech🚛 Automotive · Volvo Group📈 Finance · JRC◈ AI · Enterprise Tech📊 Capital Markets · IR🏋️ Fitness · Apparel🏗 Steel · Construction🌎 LatAm Strategy

🏋️ Prifit — Co-Founder

Early-stage fitness & apparel startup building at the intersection of performance culture, community, and smart design. Currently in ideation and early development.

20+Investor events
WEFDavos 2025
3Languages
25+Countries
MBASimon Business School
2×TEDx Participant
Claude Community Boston

A community for people building what comes next.

Workshops, conversations, and gatherings for builders, founders, operators and curious minds across Boston. Curated by Pricilla in her independent volunteer role as a Claude Community Ambassador.

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Topics & Content

The conversations I live inside

Each card links to my actual analysis on LinkedIn — posts and short videos where I break these ideas down in plain language.

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01 · Infrastructure

The dual-architecture compute era: AI + Quantum

AI industrializes intelligence through silicon. Quantum expands what can be computed at all. This decade requires both — not one or the other.

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02 · Economics

The SaaSPocalypse and the agentic economy

When AI agents can do the work of 10–100 people, the per-seat license model breaks. Nearly $1 trillion in market cap repriced in a week.

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03 · Quantum Strategy

Quantum for business leaders — no physics required

Fault tolerance. Qubit roadmaps. Neutral atoms vs. superconductors. I translate what researchers at Harvard, IBM, and Qblox are building.

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04 · Society & Philosophy

Intelligence vs. wisdom in the AGI transition

When cognitive labor becomes cheap and scalable, the constraint shifts from productivity to purpose. What happens to meaning when work becomes optional?

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05 · Capital & Investment

Where the real AI money is moving

NVIDIA at $57B quarterly revenue. Saudi Arabia's $600B AI commitment. Stargate at $500B. I track the capital allocation patterns.

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06 · Leadership

Women, identity & navigating the AI era

How automation reshapes careers for diverse talent. What the AI era means for first-generation professionals, immigrants, and non-linear paths.

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Work with me

Three ways to collaborate

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Speaking & Panels

I speak on AI infrastructure economics, quantum strategy, and the intelligence era for business leaders. Clear, substantive, built for decision-makers — not hype. Available for conferences, corporate events, and panels.

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Strategic Advisory

1:1 or team sessions to build real frameworks for understanding quantum timelines, AI infrastructure positioning, and capital allocation strategy. Particularly useful for investors and C-suite.

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Content & Education

Written analysis, short-form video explainers, and workshops. I make frontier technology legible for investors, executives, and professionals — published weekly on LinkedIn.

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Events & Community

Where I've been in the room

2026
World Economic Forum — Davos 2026
Invited, unable to attend — continued WEF community engagement remotely
2026
Harvard Quantum Symposium — Quantum & AI Impact Series
Panel attendee: Qblox · QuEra · IBM Quantum
2025
World Economic Forum — Davos 2025
WSJ House · MIT House · AI House · Imperial College AI Dinner
2025
TEDxBoston — Planet Action (3 days)
Participant · MIT CSAIL · MIT Museum · New England Aquarium
2025
Dassault Systèmes Science Week, Boston
AI, digital twins, human longevity — Bernard Charles, Claire Biot
2024
IEEE Global Tech Forum · Microsoft NERD Center
AI ethics, governance, and human-machine teaming
2024
TEDxMIT · MIT Sloan School of Management
Participant · Quantum vs. supercomputing · Google Willow · Daniela Rus
2023
MIT Generative AI Week · Imagination in Action
Participant · Sam Altman · Lex Fridman · Vinod Khosla · Stephen Wolfram
Credentials

Recent certifications and appointments

Anthropic

Claude Code in Action

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Anthropic

Introduction to Model Context Protocol

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Anthropic

Building with the Claude API

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Anthropic

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations

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Claude 101

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“Intelligence optimizes. Wisdom decides what is worth optimizing. As cognition becomes cheap and scalable, the real constraint shifts — not to skills, but to judgment. Not to productivity, but to purpose.”
— Pricilla Ricapa, reflecting on WEF Davos 2025
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