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  <title>Björn Lidefelt AMA Part 2</title>
  <description>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. &amp;amp;nbsp; ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 &amp;amp;amp; Risk-Based Authentication 00:09:14 — Biometrics vs. Deepfakes: The PAD Arms Race 00:11:28 — 2026 Strategic Priorities &amp;amp;amp; Southeast Asia 00:15:11 — Balancing Short-Term Pressure with Long-Term Vision 00:17:31 — Mobile Credentials &amp;amp;amp; the Rise of Wearables 00:19:15 — HID's Ecosystem &amp;amp;amp; 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 &amp;amp;nbsp; ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Björn Lidefelt | EVP &amp;amp;amp; 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. &amp;amp;nbsp; ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH HID ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Website: hidglobal.com Send us your questions &amp;amp;amp; topic ideas: media@hidglobal.com Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. &amp;amp;nbsp; Host: Matt Winn | HID Connects is produced by HID Global &amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; #HIDConnects #HIDGlobal #TrustedIdentity #AccessControl #BiometricSecurity #MobileCredentials #ZeroTrust #PhysicalSecurity #IdentityManagement #Convergence #FutureOfSecurity #CybersecurityPodcast #SecurityIndustry #Podcast #SeasonFinale </description>
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