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

Stina Ehrensvard

Yubico & SIROS Foundation

Founder

„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

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ex-Reddit

Sebastian Klein

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Antje von Dewitz

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Udbhav Tiwari

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Signal

Daniel Bock

CTO & Co-Founder
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Stina Ehrensvärd

Founder
Yubico & SIROS Foundation

Marcel Claus-Ahrens

n8n Ambassador
aicellence

Erika Wykes-Sneyd

CMO & Board Member

Maike Riedel

AI Coach

Luca Piwodda

Mayor
Gartz (Oder)

Janine Liu

Marketing Lead DACH
NOTHING TECHNOLOGY Ltd

Jakob Springfeld

Activist & Author
Student

Justus Geilhufe

Pastor
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Dr Marie Luise Schreiter

Neuroscientist
MPI for Biological Cybernetics

Robert Kuhne

Founder & CEO
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Skadi Berger

Managing Director
Wiewald GmbH

Anna Förster is a project manager at SPRIND, driving innovation in the public sector.

Anna Förster

Project manager
SPRIN-D

Arne Petersen is a designer and entrepreneur dedicated to freedom, openness and change. As Head of Design at SPRIND, he leads design for the EUDI Wallet project.

Arne Petersen

Head of Design
SPRIN-D

Dr Nathalie Jean-Baptiste

Urbanist & Social Entrepreneur
Independent

Marco Krebs is Growth Manager at Ignite Next, a European deep tech accelerator helping startups scale from Seed to Series A and beyond.

Marco Krebs

Growth Manager
Ignite Next

Marko Uhlig

Managing Director
Zinnwald Lithium

Eva Luft

Project Manager
Infineon

Joerg G. Fieback

CEO & Co-Founder
zebra | group

I'm Maren, a Key Account Manager at pme Familienservice – and at the same time, a passionate advocate for mental and physical balance.

Maren Janofske

Key Account Manager
pme Family Service

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