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Stina Ehrensvard is a Swedish-American entrepreneur and industrial designer who co-founded Yubico

Stina Ehrensvard

Yubico | SIROS Foundation

Founder & Chair

„Europe can help stop 90% of all cyber breaches and fake identities in 5 years.“

Swedish-American innovator Stina Ehrensvärd co-founded Yubico and created the YubiKey to give individuals simple, unbreakable protection.

Her mission-driven leadership has seen Yubico grow at 40% per year, with its keys guarding 19 of the world's 20 largest internet companies, and has earned her the 2025 EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ and 2024 Polhem Prize accolades.

As Yubico's Chief Evangelist and founder of the nonprofit SIROS Foundation, Stina drives passkey-ready identity wallets and donates security keys to journalists, refugees, and human-rights defenders worldwide.

Guided by the conviction that “research shows that around 90% of all breaches involve a breached password or other weak authentication method”, Stina will challenge MACHN Festival 2026 attendees to blend culture, commerce, experimentation, and community into technologies and companies that protect everyone's digital dignity.

Speaker 2026

Anastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel

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Sebastian Klein

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Antje von Dewitz

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VAUDE

Udbhav Tiwari

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Signal

Daniel Bock

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Morpheus Space

Dr Marie Luise Schreiter

Neuroscientist
MPI for Biological Cybernetics

Jakob Springfeld

Activist & Author
Student

Erika Wykes-Sneyd

CMO & Board Member

Maike Riedel

AI Coach

Luca Piwodda

Mayor
Gartz (Oder)

Janine Liu

Marketing Lead DACH
NOTHING TECHNOLOGY Ltd

Marcel Claus-Ahrens

n8n Ambassador
aicellence

Justus Geilhufe

Pastor
Freiberg parish

Stina Ehrensvard

Founder & Chair
Yubico | SIROS Foundation

Dr Nathalie Jean-Baptiste

Urbanist & Social Entrepreneur
Independent

Skadi Berger

Managing Director
Wiewald GmbH

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