HID CONNECTS

About HID CONNECTS

HID powers the trusted identities of the world's people, places and things.

Publisher

HID

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Apr 2023

Latest episode

24 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Apr 2026

   Björn Lidefelt AMA Part 2

   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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00:00 — Welcome to the Season Finale 00:00:53 — Physical-Logical Access Convergence: The Tipping Point 00:04:43 — What Convergence Means for Enterprise Identity 00:07:56 — Zero Trust & Risk-Based Authentication 00:09:14 — Biometrics vs. Deepfakes: The PAD Arms Race 00:11:28 — 2026 Strategic Priorities & Southeast Asia 00:15:11 — Balancing Short-Term Pressure with Long-Term Vision 00:17:31 — Mobile Credentials & the Rise of Wearables 00:19:15 — HID's Ecosystem & NFC Wallet Explained 00:21:50 — Sustainability in Access Solutions 00:24:33 — Career Advice: Is Björn's Corner Office in Reach? 00:26:41 — Closing Thoughts: 2026 and Beyond 00:27:57 — Season 5 Confirmed + Farewell to Chloe MacGregor ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Björn Lidefelt | EVP & Head of HID Global | HID Global 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH HID ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Website: hidglobal.com Send us your questions & topic ideas: media@hidglobal.com Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Host: Matt Winn | HID Connects is produced by HID Global #HIDConnects #HIDGlobal #TrustedIdentity #AccessControl #BiometricSecurity #MobileCredentials #ZeroTrust #PhysicalSecurity #IdentityManagement #Convergence #FutureOfSecurity #CybersecurityPodcast #SecurityIndustry #Podcast #SeasonFinale

2. 

   9 Apr 2026

   Björn Lidefelt AMA Part 1

   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. ► CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 00:28 AMA Format & Introducing Björn Lidefelt 01:27 7 Years at HID: Reflections on the Journey 02:32 Lightning Round: Personal Questions 03:45 Lightning Round: Work Style & Superpowers 05:04 AMA Begins — Leadership Questions 07:20 Critical Leadership Skills in Access Control 09:28 Security as a Sport: The Biathlon Analogy 11:18 Future of Physical Access Control Cards 14:05 The Tipping Point: Mobile vs. Cards 15:04 Access Control in 5–10 Years 17:23 Key Trends in Secure Identity 19:07 What Excites Björn Most About the Industry 20:31 AI in Security: Benefits & Risks 23:05 How HID Uses AI in Its Products 25:41 AI for Back-Office Automation at HID 27:37 Björn's Personal AI Workflow 31:23 Hardware-First to SaaS-First Identity Management 34:11 Ecosystems, Open Standards & Partnerships 36:11 See You in Part 2 ► GUESTS Björn Lidefelt — Executive Vice President and Head of HID, HID Global ► HOST Matt Winn — Host, HID Connects | HID Global ► SUBSCRIBE & CONNECT Subscribe to HID Connects wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube: @HIDGlobal | Website: hidglobal.com Questions & topic ideas: media@hidglobal.com

3. 

   2 Apr 2026

   ID Card Security Features & Best Practices

   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. GUESTS Tim Ortscheid — VP, Sales | ColorID Mark Degan — VP, Marketing | ColorID Tiffany Renz — Director of Sales, FARGO NAM | HID ABOUT HID CONNECTS 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. Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Send questions and topic ideas: media@hidglobal.com Learn more: hidglobal.com

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YouTube views

16,854,208

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100

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Quality

42

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

60

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