Colin has worked across financial services, consulting and vendor management in Asia and Europe. His role in VCB is to drive the transformation of the business to leverage digital and data ‘leap-frogging’ the traditional evolution, and positioning the bank to exploit new digital and data business models alongside the traditional banking capability.

Prior to this, Colin has worked across several transformations in different Asian markets with a mandate to revamp the technology and operations capability, while driving through a transformation agenda. These included roles within a major consultancy as well as in the ‘C’ Suite, leveraging technology to exploit the new market capability. He was the CTO and Head of Operations of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB). Colin created new technology capability to provide advanced digital and data services, coupled with an increase in stability of the core technology capability. This journey entailed a leapfrog in technol-ogy architecture using core components such as data and orchestration API building out the decoupling layer and deploy-ment of micro services to increase speed and agility into the delivery. Incorporated in the migration is the move from tradi-tional to agile delivery with customer centric design thinking, ‘tagging’ this as assembly architecture in reducing time and cost to market. The journey into cloud computing progressed to provide scalability and more adaptable solutions for im-proved business agility. Additionally, disruptive technologies were exploited such as blockchain to provide the first live in-ternational remittance in Asia, second worldwide.

Previously, Colin was Group Executive for ANZ assigned with overall delivery responsibility to build a new wholly-owned ANZ subsidiary bank ANZ Thai in 9 months. This encompassed all aspects of the business and technical design, as well as property and resourcing with the final regulatory approval. Other roles in ANZ included strategic planning and solution de-livery, design and build of a regional-based retail and corporate banking model.

Colin has worked in Asia for 29 years, with various roles such as Managing Director of Fidelity Information Systems and Head of IT Strategy of Standard Chartered. Early in his career, he worked at HSBC (Midland Bank) in the UK covering tech-nical and business roles.

Michele Pelino leads Forrester’s edge computing and internet of things (IoT) research across platforms, services, applications, and vendors. Her expertise spans major verticals and major use cases via her famed IoT heatmaps and evaluation of four edges that define the market. Pelino delivers strategic guidance to Forrester's enterprise and vendor clients by identifying IoT platforms, services, applications, and solutions and determining the impact of IoT and edge solutions on infrastructure, operations, employee experience, sustainability, and supply chain processes.

Andreas Spanner is leading the cloud strategy and transformation of Red Hat across Australia and New Zealand. His hands-on experience in startups and large-scale enterprise transformation programmes has given him a solid understanding of business drivers and value creation. Spanner has worked on a wide range of initiatives across different industries in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, including full-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) migrations, human resource (HR), finance and accounting, manufacturing, supply chain logistics transformations and scalable core banking strategies to support regional business growth strategies. Since joining Red Hat in 2015, he helped customers build the necessary capabilities and make the best-fit technology, methodology and architecture choices to be a successful digital competitor. He got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old and started to work as a software developer in 1996 with Krauss-Maffei in Munich building full mission simulators.

Foo Boon Ping manages The Asian Banker’s publishing and research business in Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. He regularly engages the financial services community on transformational issues shaping the industry; speaking at and chairing many of the Asian Banker’s as well as partners’ events. He has more than 25 years' experience in strategic brand management, corporate & marketing communication and research & consulting, covering: retail, corporate and transaction banking, financial markets, risk management, compliance and financial technology. He had previously served in senior management positions at UOB and DBS Bank. He was also formerly a senior consulting manager at Ernst and Young and started his career as a financial journalist.