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      Adama Diallo

      Adama Diallo

      Head of Consumer Payments Partnerships, APAC

      Google Asia Pacific

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      Adama Diallo is the Head of Google Consumer Payments Partnerships, APAC.

      Previously, Adama held partnership roles in Europe, Asia and Africa, including her role as partnerships lead for Google’s Next Billion Users (NBU) initiative.

      Adama joined Google more than 10 years ago, where she brought years of telco experience having worked at Orange Group. She also led all the product portfolio and go-to-market strategy as CMO at Next Generation Innovation, a startup specialized in delivering cloud-based subscriber engagement, analytics and campaign management services to telcos.

      Adama also co-led the Black Googler Network in Asia Pacific, where she connects Googlers with each other, senior leaders and the local community.

      Speaking at SFF 2026

      • 4:10–4:40pmFri 20 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium

        Technology Rewiring

        The Uneven Map: Where AI Rewrites Commerce First

        FutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium

        About this session

        The protocol race is over faster than anyone expected. Visa, Google, Mastercard, OpenAI, Stripe and Ant International have all shipped agent-initiated payment infrastructure, while countries such as Korea alone recorded over 100 million AI-to-AI payments in seven months. This discussion will be around where machine will transact first, at what granularity, and on whose stack.

        That question does not have a global answer, because agentic commerce is gated by four preconditions that are unevenly distributed or agreed upon.

        Identity: can an agent be issued a provable, scoped, revocable mandate.

        Acceptance density: is there enough merchant coverage for an agent's choice to be meaningful.

        Settlement granularity: can value move at machine speed and sub-cent size.

        Customer trust and value: will people actually delegate? Does the result make everyday finance simpler, more transparent and more accessible, including for customers that conventional banking has overlooked?

        The first three are being solved on the rails; the fourth is decided in the customer relationship. This panel puts both views on one stage: the platforms building agentic infrastructure, and a digital bank that rebuilt banking around customer needs. Together they map the next eighteen months by looking look at where AI creates practical customer value first and how institutions should balance automation with human judgment and accountability.