How do we bring everyone along as the world goes cashless?

Meet Kenny Stridh, Head of Technology and Evolution at Ericsson Mobile Financial Services and one of our speakers at Techheads 2026. Over 17 years, Kenny has built — and now leads the technology evolution of — a platform that today gives around 130 million people across Africa and the Middle East access to basic financial services everyday, the kind of thing most of Europe takes for granted.

In this session, Kenny will share the story of how a team in Karlskrona set out to bank the unbanked, and how that original vision has since evolved into Buy Now Pay Later, offline payments, cross-border remittance, CBDC and stablecoins, and Digital Identity. You'll hear what it takes to make financial inclusion real, at scale, in some of the world's most challenging markets.