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Europe
Spain
Core Intelligence Domain: Innovation & Future Trends
Location: Barcelona, Spain | Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan
Representation: Represented globally by PSpeakers Global Intelligence
Cecilia MoSze Tham is a globally recognised applied futurist, deep tech innovator, and the CEO and Co-founder of Futurity Systems, a pioneering studio that provides ‘Futures-as-a-Service’ to corporate and institutional leaders. By bridging the gap between imaginative foresight and tangible technological execution, she empowers C-suite executives to navigate exponential change, construct robust long-term strategies, and actively design sustainable, technologically advanced futures. Her proprietary methodologies transform speculative concepts into actionable business models, positioning her as a vital strategic partner for organisations facing the rapid convergence of artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and spatial computing.
Throughout her career, Cecilia has operated at the intersection of social sciences, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Prior to launching Futurity Systems, she served as a Social Technologist at Alpha, Telefonica’s highly secretive moonshot facility. In this capacity, she was responsible for ensuring that radical technological advancements were designed with human-centric and societal benefits at their core.
She is a formidable force in the European innovation landscape. Cecilia is the founder of Makers of Barcelona (MOB), one of Southern Europe’s largest collaborative co-working communities, and the co-founder of allwomen.tech, an AI training academy specifically designed for women. Furthermore, she brought FabCafe to Barcelona, establishing a crucial hub for digital fabrication and design. Her multifaceted leadership demonstrates a consistent ability to scale innovative concepts into thriving, impactful enterprises.
Beyond her entrepreneurial ventures, Cecilia is a trusted advisor to major global institutions. She serves on the advisory board of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and has been an active member of the advisory board for the City Council of Barcelona. As an AWS European Ambassador, she champions cloud innovation and deep tech integration across the continent. She is also the Director of the Singularity University Barcelona Chapter, further solidifying her role as a key conduit for exponential technology discourse in Europe.
Her academic contributions are equally impressive, having served as a visiting scholar and adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design and Parsons Paris, where she developed curricula focused on design thinking, futures prototyping, and sustainable technology.
When booking Cecilia MoSze Tham, organisations secure far more than a visionary keynote. They gain an applied futurist who dismantles the complexity of emerging deep tech and rebuilds it into actionable, commercial strategies. Her unique ability to fuse speculative design with rigorous technological prototyping ensures that audiences leave not only inspired by what the future holds, but equipped with the frameworks required to build it. Her insights are essential for leadership teams determined to future-proof their enterprises, drive sustainable growth, and lead confidently in the age of exponential convergence.
“I had the pleasure of working with Cecilia for our 2019 Global Innovation Forum that is held annually in London. Cecilia delivered a well-structured and carefully prepared futuristic talk at the event. It was highly rated by the audience and was described as fantastic, thought-provoking and practical. Cecilia was super friendly, easy to work with and professional throughout the whole project. I look forward to keep collaborating in future.”
“Cecilia gave one of the most interesting and engaging keynote addresses at Sweden's largest event for internet professionals, The Internet Days in Stockholm 2019, where I was the moderator and one of the organizers. Her enthusiasm and energetic delivery really made the event come alive, and the audience was very happy with her talk, giving it glowing reviews afterwards. I would happily recommend Cecilia as speaker for any conference!”
“Cecilia gave a powerful talk at the Global Innovation Forum 2019 - full of insight and provocative questions as to how we want to shape the future of autonomous commerce. She presented with real purpose and confidence, and helped kick the conference off in true style. Thank you for sharing Cecilia.”
“I would like to enthusiastically recommend Cecilia Tham and her work during her tenure at Alpha. Cecilia was a member of my team for 2 years and performed exceptionally. At Alpha, Cecilia’s work focused on developing Moonshot candidates: projects that would affect 100’s of Millions of people, be a force for good on the planet, and grow into billion dollar businesses. Her responsibility was to generate ideas, and then develop Moonshot candidates by exploring the technology that would make them possible, the business models that would make them viable, and the future scenarios that would make them desirable. Cecilia is a very rare animal. She has an exceptional ability to think creatively—way outside the box. Yet she is also able to ground her creativity to the real challenges of running a business, launching new products, and solving real problems. One of her biggest strengths is coming up to speed surprisingly quickly on very complex topics. As she develops her understanding, she’s able to synthesize new approaches to solving problems. She thinks both laterally, and deeply; she’s a complex systems thinker, and has found a way to apply her ideas directly to the problems she is working on. As a member of a very diverse and high-performing team at Alpha, Cecilia was a great team player. Although she was a senior member of my team and led many of our marquee candidates, she often jumped into supporting roles without hesitation. Her teamwork style mirrors her intellectual capacity: versatile, flexible, fast, comfortable with complexity, and always mission/solution focused. Cecilia is a world class creative thinker and imagineer. She would be a phenomenal addition to any team challenged with solving large, difficult, and complex problems. I recommend Cecilia to any organization that would be lucky enough to have her.”
“Cecilia was our speaker at Green Tech Festival in Berlin 24th of May 2019 on Sustainable development. She did an incredibly professional keynote and engaged the audience in her message emotionally, which speakers rarely do. She was smiling, confident, engaging, vulnerable and really genuine. Her ability as a public speaker was superb. We were very lucky to have her!”
“I had the opportunity to encounter Cecilia in one of the ‘Moonshot Ideation sessions’. Her vision on today’s environment with a clear look at what is happening next was an eye opener. I had a clear sense that we should be doing far more as members of the community in every sense. Inspiring.”