Queens’ College, Cambridge, provided the setting for an event hosted by HID Global, the access control product manufacturer with a UK office in Haverhill, Suffolk.
This is the first high level briefing meeting that HID has organised specifically for the EMEA region. It introduced Paul Naldrett, HID’s new Managing Director, EMEA Region to customers, partners and members of the press. Over 50 guests were invited to join the HID team for lunch in the Dining Hall where, guest speaker David Bodanis, author of E=Mc2 and Electric Universe, set the scene for the afternoon’s presentation with a wide ranging discussion on future technologies.
Guests were then taken to the new EMEA headquarters at Haverhill, where Paul Naldrett outlined his plans for the strategic development of the EMEA region. In addition to news on recent acquisitions to strengthen the company’s portfolio and details on how HID technology and products such as SmartID, and OMNIKEY are supporting every industry sector from hospitals to e-government, commerce to education, one of the most significant issues under discussion was the role that HID is taking in the convergence of physical and logical access systems.
Mr Naldrett said: "Migration into the logical access space is one of the most exciting opportunities for HID and is a significant growth area for us in terms of performance in the market and the value we can offer to our customers".
New Dell Latitude laptops will now be embedded with an HID iClass reader, an example the firms said of convergence at work. Not only does the technology prevent unauthorised access to the laptop and data, it also enables organisations to use a single HID iCLASS card for both physical building access and secure authentication to PCs.
This was first in a series of regular events which are planned for the region in a move to localise sales, support and customer service across the EMEA region.
