Alpha Malick Dia

Alpha Malick Dia

Alpha Malick Dia is a technologist, fintech specialist, and cross-continental innovation leader with a career spanning nearly 20 years across the Middle East, West Africa, and Central Africa. He has extensive experience in the design, deployment, and governance of large-scale digital ecosystems, including prepaid systems rollout. His roles include leading the rollout of digital wallets and mobile money services as CEO of YAP Ghana, directing Africa expansion strategies at YAP Holding UAE, and leading the design and implementation of national-scale traceable subsidy and voucher systems across Burundi, Niger, DR Congo, and South Sudan from 2012 to 2020, impacting over one million farmers per year.

As co-founder & CEO of ILIUM Technologies, Alpha Malick co-leads AI VillageOS — an AI platform that treats a rural village as a single, interconnected economic system, bringing integrated intelligence to water use, crop health, yield forecasting, and cooperative planning to build climate resilience for smallholder farming communities in Northern Senegal. He is driven by a passion for leveraging technology to solve complex problems and improve lives, and works fluently across multilingual, multicultural environments (French, English, and Arabic).

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  • Organization
    ILIUM Technologies — AI VillageOS
  • Profession
    Co-founder and CEO
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In person
7 July 2026
09:00 - 17:15
EST - New York
CST - Beijing
PST - Los Angeles
AWST - Perth, Australia

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