HID powers the trusted identities of the world's people, places and things.
HID CONNECTS
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33 episodes
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HID powers the trusted identities of the world's people, places and things.
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April 24, 2026
Björn Lidefelt AMA Part 2
<div>What does it mean to govern identity when AI agents, IoT machines, and self-sovereign credentials are rewriting the rules? In the Season 4 Finale of HID Connects, HID Global's EVP Björn Lidefelt fields questions from industry professionals worldwide — covering the forces accelerating physical-logical convergence, the biometric arms race against deepfakes, and a bold prediction: the identity of things will eventually eclipse the identity of people.</div> <div> </div> <div>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</div> <div>CHAPTERS</div> <div>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</div> <div>00:00:00 — Welcome to the Season Finale</div> <div>00:00:53 — Physical-Logical Access Convergence: The Tipping Point</div> <div>00:04:43 — What Convergence Means for Enterprise Identity</div> <div>00:07:56 — Zero Trust & Risk-Based Authentication</div> <div>00:09:14 — Biometrics vs. Deepfakes: The PAD Arms Race</div> <div>00:11:28 — 2026 Strategic Priorities & Southeast Asia</div> <div>00:15:11 — Balancing Short-Term Pressure with Long-Term Vision</div> <div>00:17:31 — Mobile Credentials & the Rise of Wearables</div> <div>00:19:15 — HID's Ecosystem & NFC Wallet Explained</div> <div>00:21:50 — Sustainability in Access Solutions</div> <div>00:24:33 — Career Advice: Is Björn's Corner Office in Reach?</div> <div>00:26:41 — Closing Thoughts: 2026 and Beyond</div> <div>00:27:57 — Season 5 Confirmed + Farewell to Chloe MacGregor</div> <div> </div> <div>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</div> <div>GUEST</div> <div>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</div> <div>Björn Lidefelt | EVP & Head of HID Global | HID Global</div> <div>Björn Lidefelt serves as Executive Vice President and Head of HID Global, Assa Abloy's trusted identity solutions business. With over seven years leading HID, Björn drives global strategy across physical access control, mobile credentials, biometrics, and identity and access management — helping organizations worldwide protect people, places, and things.</div> <div> </div> <div>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</div> <div>CONNECT WITH HID</div> <div>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</div> <div>Website: hidglobal.com</div> <div>Send us your questions & topic ideas: media@hidglobal.com</div> <div>Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.</div> <div> </div> <div>Host: Matt Winn | HID Connects is produced by HID Global</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>#HIDConnects #HIDGlobal #TrustedIdentity #AccessControl #BiometricSecurity #MobileCredentials #ZeroTrust #PhysicalSecurity #IdentityManagement #Convergence #FutureOfSecurity #CybersecurityPodcast #SecurityIndustry #Podcast #SeasonFinale</div>
April 9, 2026
Björn Lidefelt AMA Part 1
<div>What does a CEO actually do all day — and what does the future of your access card look like? In this special Ask Me Anything episode of HID Connects, host Matt Winn puts HID's Executive Vice President and Head of HID, Björn Lidefelt, in the hot seat. With questions crowdsourced from social media and leading industry publications, Björn covers leadership philosophy, the future of physical credentials, AI in security, mobile adoption, biometrics, and a lot more. This is Part 1 of 2 — the AMA continues in the Season 4 finale.</div> <div> </div> <div>► CHAPTERS</div> <div>0:00 Introduction</div> <div>00:28 AMA Format & Introducing Björn Lidefelt</div> <div>01:27 7 Years at HID: Reflections on the Journey</div> <div>02:32 Lightning Round: Personal Questions</div> <div>03:45 Lightning Round: Work Style & Superpowers</div> <div>05:04 AMA Begins — Leadership Questions</div> <div>07:20 Critical Leadership Skills in Access Control</div> <div>09:28 Security as a Sport: The Biathlon Analogy</div> <div>11:18 Future of Physical Access Control Cards</div> <div>14:05 The Tipping Point: Mobile vs. Cards</div> <div>15:04 Access Control in 5–10 Years</div> <div>17:23 Key Trends in Secure Identity</div> <div>19:07 What Excites Björn Most About the Industry</div> <div>20:31 AI in Security: Benefits & Risks</div> <div>23:05 How HID Uses AI in Its Products</div> <div>25:41 AI for Back-Office Automation at HID</div> <div>27:37 Björn's Personal AI Workflow</div> <div>31:23 Hardware-First to SaaS-First Identity Management</div> <div>34:11 Ecosystems, Open Standards & Partnerships</div> <div>36:11 See You in Part 2</div> <div> </div> <div>► GUESTS</div> <div>Björn Lidefelt — Executive Vice President and Head of HID, HID Global</div> <div> </div> <div>► HOST</div> <div>Matt Winn — Host, HID Connects | HID Global</div> <div> </div> <div>► SUBSCRIBE & CONNECT</div> <div>Subscribe to HID Connects wherever you get your podcasts.</div> <div>YouTube: @HIDGlobal | Website: hidglobal.com</div> <div>Questions & topic ideas: media@hidglobal.com</div>
April 2, 2026
ID Card Security Features & Best Practices
<div>That small plastic card in your wallet? It might be easier to fake than you think. In this episode of HID Connects, host Matt Winn sits down with three credentialing industry veterans to explore the visible and invisible features that make ID cards secure — and what happens when organizations cut corners. From holograms and UV inks to nano text and badge orientation, this is your complete guide to the science, strategy, and real-world reality of ID card security.</div> <div> </div> <div><strong>GUESTS</strong></div> <div><strong>Tim Ortscheid — VP, Sales | ColorID</strong></div> <div><strong>Mark Degan — VP, Marketing | ColorID</strong></div> <div><strong>Tiffany Renz — Director of Sales, FARGO NAM | HID</strong></div> <div> </div> <div><strong>ABOUT HID CONNECTS</strong></div> <div>HID Connects is the official podcast of HID, the global leader in trusted identity solutions. Each episode brings together industry experts to explore the technologies, trends, and ideas shaping the future of access control, identity, and security. New episodes weekly.</div> <div>Subscribe so you never miss an episode.</div> <div>Send questions and topic ideas: media@hidglobal.com</div> <div>Learn more: hidglobal.com</div> <div> </div>
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