The Bid Picture with Bidemi Ologunde

Across Apple’s wearables, GLP-1 drugs, academia’s AI pivot, IP fights, new crime patterns, and the dating-app slump, there is one through-line: resilient trust. In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde maps how innovation and human values can move in step—arguing for stronger privacy rules (especially for biometrics), smarter AI oversight (think “FDA for algorithms”), real digital literacy, and business models that earn a social license to operate. It’s a playbook for policymakers, tech leaders, academics, and the rest of us to design for well-being, not just engagement—so our tools save lives, our institutions keep credibility, and our relationships (online or offline) stay authentic.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Matt Topper, president of UberEther and a 20+ year veteran of cybersecurity and identity/access management. Matt broke down zero trust without the buzzwords, explained how people-first IAM unlocks business growth, and shared hard-won lessons from public-sector environments. They dug into private-tenant vs. multi-tenant tradeoffs, FedRAMP/DoD realities, moving from PIV-D to phishing-resistant MFA, and the metrics executives should actually track.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presented six stories about secrecy versus privacy.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed recent advanced persistent threat (APT) campaigns targeting banks and law firms involved in mergers and acquisitions.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Melinda Nevala, a digital privacy advocate and the Marketing Director at Medcurity. The conversation touched on America’s patchwork of state privacy laws, spotlighting loopholes big tech quietly lobbied for, AI’s still-unplugged data vacuum, and the dark-pattern consent pop-ups driving us all to button-click fatigue—plus practical tips to fight back.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed the company Palantir Technologies, an American publicly traded company specializing in software platforms for data mining. The analysis focused on the enabling conditions that predate its founding, the company’s growth across historical and societal contexts, its financial trajectory and political entrenchment, controversies around privacy and surveillance, as well as compelling background details for a general audience.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Ayotunde Aladejana, a venture & partnerships leader driving capital, markets & impact with comprehensive experience across banking, global health, and venture capital. We unpacked his journey from economics and business analysis to venture building, his playbook for corporate–startup partnerships, practical lessons on leading with empathy, governance, data protection, scaling responsibly, and lots more.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Jeremy Samide, CEO of Blackwired, is one of the most trusted cyber intelligence experts working today. He’s led high-profile ransomware investigations, traced criminal crypto flows across the dark web, and briefed government and private sector leaders on how to counter the next generation of cyber threats. Over the past 20+ years, Jeremy has supported clandestine operations for the U.S. Intelligence community, NATO, Interpol, and military forces across APAC and Europe specializing in state-sponsored threats, cyber warfare, and cryptocurrency tracking. His expertise has even been tapped by the writers of CBS’s Person of Interest, Harvard’s Master’s Program, and NATO's Military University of Technology in Warsaw. Now as CEO of Blackwired, Jeremy is developing cutting-edge platforms that disrupt threat actors in real time including ThirdWatch, a system already reshaping how cybersecurity, crypto risk, and nation-state attacks are handled at the edge.

In this episode of The Medcurity Podcast, host Melinda Nevala, a digital privacy advocate and the Marketing Director at Medcurity, spoke with Bidemi Ologunde about wide-ranging security topics including: the dichotomy between privacy and security especially with the use of mobile apps and smart devices; cyberattacks and ransomware targeting organizations in several industries via seemingly innocuous entry points such as internet-connected fish tanks; the new HIPAA rules recently proposed in the US; the new AI rules introduced in Europe; why systems of systems are most vulnerable to cyberattacks; the different cyber attack surfaces many organizations don't realize they have; how the tech landscape has changed in recent years due to AI and its unintended consequences; and lots more.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explored the process of becoming undeniable in the tech industry, using personal stories and incidents throughout his career.