A possibilidade de um novo futuro
Inspiration as a tool against professional apathy.
TEDx · TEDxSerraDoMimo · Jan 10, 2023

Media
From Estadão to Exame, from Fast Company to the OAB stage. When the subject is the future, AI, or what technology does to work, she's the one who answers the phone.
Videos
TEDx, Microsoft, Febraban, Band, Serasa, Estadão. A playlist of what you can watch right now.
Inspiration as a tool against professional apathy.
TEDx · TEDxSerraDoMimo · Jan 10, 2023
A video interview at the festival where she curates the Tech Trends track.
Estadão TV · SP Innovation Week
A session in Microsoft's AI training program in Brazil.
Microsoft Brazil
A conversation with Mona Dorf on AI, quantum computing, and the energy transition.
FEBRABAN · Jul 31, 2025
Guest on episode 7 of season 4, with Joana Treptow and Juliene Salvan.
Band Jornalismo · Passa lá no RH · Aug 28, 2023
The technology concepts a leader can no longer get away with not understanding.
Serasa Experian · Aug 22, 2025
Interview at Gerdau Innovation Day, on the panel about the future and emerging technologies.
Instituto Caldeira · Gerdau Innovation Day · Apr 23, 2025
In print and on screen
The pieces exactly as they ran, in print and on the publisher's own screen.
São Paulo Innovation Week
Video
A video appearance in the festival's warm-up, where she curates the Tech Trends track.
The archive
Bylined columns, interviews, TV, podcasts, and stage appearances. In order, most recent first.
A read on the SXSW 2026 trends applied to the health sector.
Futuro da Saúde · Apr 23, 2026
Opening of Decoded, alongside Natalia Cuminale, on what SXSW means for health care.
Futuro da Saúde · Apr 8, 2026
A column on futurist inflation — what separates real signal-reading from guesswork with a stage.
Fast Company Brasil · Nov 3, 2025
What happens to the base of the career pyramid when AI takes over entry-level work.
Fast Company Brasil · Oct 14, 2025
The technology concepts a leader can no longer get away with not understanding.
Serasa Experian · Aug 22, 2025
28 minutes with Mona Dorf on AI, quantum computing, the energy transition, and the hybrid human-machine society.
FEBRABAN News · Jul 31, 2025
An interview on how vibe coding moves software-building out of the IT department and into the hands of whoever's closest to the customer.
Consumidor Moderno · Jul 15, 2025
Freelancers, fractional work, and the new makeup of teams.
Fast Company Brasil · Jun 30, 2025
Interview at Gerdau Innovation Day, where she joined the panel on the future and emerging technologies.
Instituto Caldeira · Apr 23, 2025
Recorded at SXSW 2025, on the physical side of AI and what's next for quantum computing.
NegNews · Época Negócios · Mar 28, 2025
A conversation on what it actually means to work with the future.
PSA · Profissionais SA · Mar 5, 2025
Guest on episode 7 of season 4, with Joana Treptow and Juliene Salvan: how technology reshapes work without erasing what's human in it.
Band Jornalismo · Passa lá no RH · Aug 28, 2023
Coverage of the innovation masterclass she led at Inteli.
Inteli · Aug 24, 2023
An open class for Inteli students on innovation and reading the future.
Inteli · Aug 18, 2023
Inspiration as a tool against professional apathy.
TEDx Talks · TEDxSerraDoMimo · Jan 10, 2023
A talk at the Swedish-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce on what the pandemic permanently accelerated.
Swedcham Brasil · Jun 17, 2021
OAB-RS's official announcement: she opens the country's largest free legal-industry event alongside philosopher Luiz Felipe Pondé.
OAB Rio Grande do Sul
Coverage of day two of TECHNOW 2025, on consumption, Gen Z, and zero tolerance for friction. At the time, Moovers was still called Disrupta.
SUCESU-RS
"We've never been so connected, and at the same time so fragmented." She makes the case for cooperation as a response to the imbalance between the physical and the digital.
Exame
A Science-desk interview on the role of leadership, with a warning that AI could make society less intelligent, not more.
Estadão
The talks she's most looking forward to at the festival, and why.
Estadão
As curator of the festival's Tech Trends track, she explains the stage's premise and the year's trend picks.
Estadão
Stages & curation
Cidade da Advocacia 2026
Opening keynote, with Luiz Felipe Pondé
OAB-RS · Aug 4, 2026
São Paulo Innovation Week
Curator of the Tech Trends track
Estadão · Base Eventos
Gerdau Innovation Day
Panel on the future and emerging technologies
Instituto Caldeira
Decoded · post-SXSW
Opening talk and panel
Futuro da Saúde
SXSW · Austin
Coverage and Moovers delegation
2024 · 2025 · 2026
Masterclass de Inovação
Open class
Inteli
Futurismo e tendências
Talk
Swedcham Brasil
For journalists and organizers
She speaks on futures literacy, AI and work, quantum computing, emerging technologies, and China. Bio and portraits are right here, ready to go, no need to email and ask.
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Monica Magalhaes is a computer scientist, researcher, founder of Moovers, and author of 2075.
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Monica Magalhaes is a computer scientist, researcher, and author of 2075: A Futurist's Look at Technology, Life, Work, and Society. She founded Moovers, a community dedicated to futurism, and serves on the Board of the Coca-Cola Brazil Institute. She is recognized as one of Brazil's leading voices on quantum computing applications. As a TEDx Speaker, she has delivered more than 400 talks and reached close to 500,000 people.
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Monica Magalhaes is a computer scientist, researcher, and author of 2075: A Futurist's Look at Technology, Life, Work, and Society. She founded Moovers, a community dedicated to futurism, and serves on the Board of the Coca-Cola Brazil Institute. For more than two decades she has tracked technological change and its impact on organizations, work, and society. She works as a field researcher across the world's leading innovation ecosystems, from China to Silicon Valley, connecting technology, culture, behavior, and strategy to understand how the future starts to take shape. Recognized as one of Brazil's leading voices on quantum computing applications, she brings her research to companies, universities, and major events through talks, foresight projects, and learning experiences. As a TEDx Speaker, she has delivered more than 400 talks and reached close to 500,000 people. She holds an executive certificate in Disruptive Innovation from Harvard and IMD, plus a Future Thinker certification from the Institute for the Future. She also works to expand women's presence in technology, helping build the next generation of references and leaders in the field.
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