HID CONNECTS

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

Björn Lidefelt AMA Part 2 04/24/2026

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 /episode/index/show/hidglobal/id/40991020

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Real-Time Location Systems: Where does efficiency end and tracking begin? 03/12/2026

Real-Time Location Systems: Where does efficiency end and tracking begin? The same system that keeps employees safe can also reveal where they are, when they were there, and who they were with. So where does efficiency end and tracking begin? In this episode of HID Connects, host Matt Winn sits down with three experts to explore Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) — the technology powering the invisible web of sensors, tags, and credentials that track movement across hospitals, factories, and offices in real time. The panel tackles the biggest misconceptions head-on, reframing RTLS from “tracking” to “visibility,” and dives deep into the privacy questions organizations need to answer before deploying these systems. From GDPR vs. CCPA to consent, data retention, and the critical difference between operational intelligence and surveillance — this conversation will change how you think about location data. Our Guests: • Ondrej Langr — Chief Product Officer, Sharry • Brady Hall — Segment Sales Manager, RTLS, HID • Jennie Hargrove — Senior Director of Global Privacy, HID In This Episode: 00:00 — Introduction: What is RTLS? 05:08 — Defining real-time location data and how it’s collected 07:15 — Why organizations are investing in RTLS 08:45 — Tracking vs. visibility: overcoming the surveillance misconception 13:45 — Common privacy concerns and how to address them 16:05 — Global regulations: GDPR, CCPA, and regional differences 19:29 — Credential-based data vs. continuous monitoring 23:07 — Landlords vs. tenants: different approaches to location data 25:22 — A privacy framework for responsible RTLS deployment 27:28 — The future of privacy and data-driven insights 30:16 — Final thoughts: How is RTLS changing the way we think about tracking? Learn more about HID’s location and sensing technologies: #RTLS #Privacy #LocationData #AccessControl #WorkplaceSafety #PhysicalSecurity #HIDGlobal #HIDConnects #TrustedIdentities #DataPrivacy #GDPR Have a question or topic idea? Email us: Subscribe for more episodes and hit the bell so you never miss a conversation. /episode/index/show/hidglobal/id/40316685