Benjamin Kanter, MD, FCCP, is the Chief Medical Information Officer at Vocera, where he works closely with clinicians and engineers to co-design the next generation of real-time communication and collaboration solutions for hospitals and health systems. Prior to joining Vocera, Dr. Kanter worked as an industry consultant and thought leader with several innovative healthcare IT companies. Dr. Kanter earned his medical degree and completed internal medicine training at Northwestern University. He completed post-doctoral studies in both pulmonary disease and critical care medicine at the U.C.S.D. Medical center in California. Dr. Kanter is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and medical informatics.

Dr Vin Smith is a practicing physician (OBGYN trainee) and holds a PhD in clinical innovation management. His research focuses on the clinical testing of novel medical devices, designing novel technologies to address clinical problems and improving adoption of these into healthcare. A key focus in this is with regards to novel fetal surveillance technologies. To date, he has been involved in the invention, development and commercialisation of several novel technologies in various areas of medicine (high risk obstetrics, fertility, pressure injury care, depression prediction) , both in Australia and abroad. Through this, he has been fortunate to develop intellectual property, secure research funding and receive media coverage. In this capacity, he works with multiple industry organisations and governmental bodies as a strategic clinical advisor and holds the position of Chief Scientific Officer in Biorithm too. He works as an advisor to venture capital in this capacity too.

His passion is to also improve innovation process and clinician engagement with the process through these roles. At the same time, he also continues to be engaged in research both directly and by supervision of other researchers in the field.