AI & Quantum Strategist · Educator · Speaker

Making the AI × Quantum era legible for everyone

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.

Pricilla Ricapa
WEF Davos
Quantum
WEF Davos 2025
Quantum + AI
MIT · Harvard
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
TEDx Participant
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The book is coming.

A work in progress — on the decade we're living through: AI, quantum, capital, and what it means to be human in an era of machine cognition. More details soon.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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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Announcements

Towards Humanist Superintelligence

What happens to humanity when machines surpass us cognitively — and how do we make sure that transition serves human flourishing, not just efficiency? This is the thread I'm pulling on. A growing body of work at the intersection of AI capabilities, ethics, and what I call humanist design.

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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
"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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