A first-ballot Hockey Hall of Fame inductee, Wickenheiser's hockey IQ is highly respected in both the male and female game. She has played in/coached at four NHL development camps with the Philadelphia Flyers, the Edmonton Oilers, and the Toronto Maple Leafs. In 2018, Wickenheiser joined the Toronto Maple Leafs as assistant director of player development in 2018 before being promoted to assistant general manager in 2022.

Alongside her career in the NHL, Wickenheiser is currently a resident medical doctor practicing in the Toronto-area—a pursuit she had dreamt of her whole life and began in 2017 following her retirement from the National Women's Team after 23 years. She is also the author of Over the Board: Lessons from the Ice.

In addition, Wickenheiser is a member of the Order of Canada, a retired member of the International Olympic Committee's Althete's Commission, member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, and founder of the Canadian Tire Wickenheiser World Female Hockey Festival.

Ken Dryden was a goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s, during which time the team won six Stanley Cups. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, was a Member of Parliament, a Cabinet Minister, and is the author of several books. He and his wife, Lynda, live in Toronto, and have two children and four grandchildren.

Jennifer Botterill is one of Canada's most successful athletes, achieving Olympic glory on numerous occasions. A member of the Canadian Women's Hockey Team for 14 years, she attended four Olympic games, winning three gold medals and one silver medal. Today, Botterill is an in-demand hockey analyst and commentator, regularly appearing on the desk of CBC's Hockey Night in Canada. As a peak performance coach, she shares valuable lessons she's learned on the way to becoming a champion to help audiences reach their potential.

A graduate of Harvard University, Botterill is the only two-time winner of the Patty Kazmaier award, which honours the top player in women's college hockey. She is also a five-time world champion and was twice named the most valuable player of the World Championship tournament.

Botterill is an analyst for the NHL's New York Islanders and for Sportsnet's Hockey Central. She also sits on the board of directors for CCM Hockey. Botterill has previously worked as a studio analyst for TSN and as a guest on TSN's Off the Record. In 2020, she joined NBC as an in-studio analyst for their historic first all-women's broadcast team, and in 2014, Botterill was a sports commentator for CBC at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Besides her work as a keynote speaker and professional development facilitator, she is also the CEO of the organizations Excel in Life and Journey to Excel.

Botteril has taken several leadership and mentorship roles within the sports community and the greater community at large. She has worked on projects for the International Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation, and is currently an ambassador for Right to Play. She has also worked with charities such as the Special Olympics, Kidsport, Children's Wish Foundation, SickKids Hospital, CanFund, Hockey Canada Foundation, and Canadian Cancer Society.

Currently Dr. Cantu’s professional responsibilities include Medical Director and Director of Clinical Research, Dr. Robert C. Cantu Concussion Center, Chief of Neurosurgery Service and Director of Sports Medicine at Emerson Health in Concord, MA; Clinical Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Clinical Therapeutics Leader AD-CTE Center Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA; Founding member and Medical Director Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, MA; Medical Director National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, Chapel Hill, NC; Vice President and Chairman of Scientific Advisory Committee, National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE); Senior Advisor NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee; Member NFLPA Mackey-White Health and Safety Committee and Co-chair of the equipment committee; NCAA Concussion Safety Advisory Group Member and NCAA Student-Athletic Concussion Injury Litigation Committee (Medical Science Committee); Member of the World Rugby Concussion Working Group.

He has authored over 549 scientific publications, including 34 books on neurology and sports medicine. A past president and spokesperson for the American College of Sports Medicine, he has participated in numerous nationally televised sports programs. He has served as associate editor of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise and Exercise and Sports Science Review, and on the editorial boards of The Physician and Sports Medicine, Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Athletic Training, Neurosurgery, and World Neurosurgery.

Dr. Janie Cournoyer is a Certified Athletic Therapist with over 15 years of clinical field experience, specifically with high-contact sports. She completed her doctoral and post-doctoral research at the University of Ottawa in the Neurotrauma Impact Science Labratory studying the association between head impact severity and signs and symptoms of sports-related concussion. Dr. Cournoyer also let a project describing the brain trauma profile in youth American football in order to better inform helmet manufacturers and helmet testing standards.

Dr. Cournoyer is also Scientific Director, Clinician, and Co-Owner at the Concussion Institute. She and her team of interdisciplinary healthcare professionals provide evidence-based concussion management and rehabilitation to patients with mild traumatic brain injuries. Dr. Cournoyer also has a passion for teaching. She is a lecturer for the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa and is the Co-Founder of Atlete Plus Education, an online platform aiming to provide quality education to diverse stakeholders in sports medicine.

Director of the Neurotrauma Impact Science Laboratory at the University of Ottawa, Blaine is an internationally recognised scientist in head and brain injury. Over the past twenty-five years he has developed a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between head impact mechanics and neurological outcomes and damage. He has 171 refereed scientific publications, has given over 290 scientific presentations, and holds 22 product patents. Blaine has applied scientific discovery to product development in VP roles for CCM Hockey and Bauer Hockey. He consulted for the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers and in 2011 was named as one of the top fifty most influential people in sport by the Globe and Mail. In the United States Senate Committee Hearings, on the Concussion and the Marketing of Sports Equipment, one hundred and twelfth Congress, he was described as an expert scientist and biomechanical engineer who published excellent work regarding helmet performance and the mechanics of head injury. His engineering and design teams have developed helmets for a multitude of sports, including ice hockey, cycling, snowmobile, lacrosse, equestrian, football as well as motorcycle helmets. He has chaired the ISO Committee for Ice Hockey Product Certification, as well as acts as a member of NOCSAE, ASTM and CSA helmet safety committees. Through 25 years of head injury research and business development, Blaine sees an opportunity for a large-scale impact to risk mitigation through monitoring and managing head trauma in an accurate and accessible fashion.

Research scientist in neurotrauma specialized in applying biomechanical head impact event analysis to fundamentally understand how and why injuries occur. She completed her doctorate degree at the University of Ottawa in the Neurotrauma Impact Science Labratory focused on quantifying acute and cumulative brain trauma using measurements extracted from video.

Clara has over 10 years of experience leading and managing projects with global partners within academic, industry and medical sectors including Harvard Medical School, St. Michaels Hospital, Universiy College Dublin, Imperial College, and Mayo Clinic on collaborative initiates to better understand head impact mechanics. She has worked closely with industry R&D for leading companies in sporting goods and equipment including CCM Hockey, Fox Racing, MIPS, Smith Optics, Giro, and Marucci Sports translating science and research into tangible value for product innovation. She has provided scientific and technical consulting for various organizations and expertise in accident reconstruction for forensic litigation.

With an acute observation of the limitations and subjective analysis of head injury in sports, she co-founded Brainware AI in 2022. Clara aims to provide objective solutions for brain trauma monitoring and risk management using cutting-edge advancements in technology and AI.

Dr. John J. Leddy is Professor of Clinical Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, the AMSSM, and of the American College of Physicians, and Director of Outcomes Research for the Department of Orthopaedics. He is a Division 1 team physician and Medical Director of the University at Buffalo Concussion Management Clinic. He is a Member of the Expert Panel for the Berlin Fifth International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport. In conjunction with Dr. Barry Willer, he developed the Buffalo Concussion Treadmill Test.

Ann McKee, MD, is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Pathology at Boston University and Director of Neuropathology for VA Boston. Dr. McKee is a neurologist and neuropathologist whose career focuses on Alzheimer’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Her groundbreaking work on the long-term effects of repetitive head impacts, concussion, and blast injury in contact sports athletes and military veterans revolutionized scientific thought regarding head trauma; she demonstrated that repetitive head trauma can trigger CTE, a devastating neurodegenerative disease. Dr. McKee directs the BU Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center. She created the UNITE brain bank, the world’s largest repository of brains from individuals exposed to traumatic brain injuries (over 1350). She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. McKee was named Bostonian of the Year 2017 by the Boston Globe, one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World and one of the 50 Most Influential People in Healthcare by Time magazine. She received the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research by the Alzheimer’s Association and Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal (Sammie), Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to federal service.

Dr. Chris Nowinski is CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation and a social entrepreneur leading a global conversation on concussions, CTE, and the future of sports. An All-Ivy Harvard football player-turned WWE professional wrestler-turned neuroscientist, he discovered the sports concussion crisis the hard way when a kick to the chin in a 2003 WWE match which ended his career. His struggle with post-concussion syndrome sent him on a journey through which he exposed a global public health issue that is only beginning to be understood.

To retrain his brain, Chris wrote the investigative exposé Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis in 2006, which exposed how the NFL had been playing the role of Big Tobacco in covering up the costs of concussions. He soon after founded the non-profit Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF), where he continues to serve as CEO, as well as the Boston University (BU) CTE Center and the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, where he serves as the Outreach, Recruitment, Education, and Public Policy Leader. Dr. Nowinski now advances the conversation globally through CLF chapters in Canada, Austrailia, and the United Kingdom and CLF Global Brain Bank partners in Brazil and New Zealand. His journey has been profiled in media outlets like HBO Real Sports, ESPN Outside the Lines, and the New York Times, and he was the subject of the award-winning documentary Head Games: The Global Concussion Crisis by celebrated director Steve James.

Dr. Nowinski earned his doctorate in Behavioural Neuroscience from Boston University School of Medicine and has authored more than 35 scientific publications. VICE Sports called Dr. Nowinski "the man most responsible for making CTE part of the national conversation," and Sports Illustrated said, "It is Nowinski's figure which looms behind the doctors and the headlines and the debate roiling over sports' newfound commitment to minimizing head trauma."

Hockey Hall of Famer Chris Pronger is one of the NHL’s 100 greatest players ever. Known as one of the fiercest and most dominant defensemen in the history of the league, Pronger built an impressive legacy during his 19 seasons in the National Hockey League.

Over the course of his career, he was a four-time All-Star and won a Norris Trophy as the league’s best defenseman; a Hart Trophy as the league’s most valuable player; a Stanley Cup; and two Olympic Gold medals.Pronger grew up in Dryden, Ontario, where he played hockey on the outdoor rink, on the street, in the driveway, and at the local arena. Hockey was his passion, and the NHL was his dream. He moved away from home at the age of 15 to play in Stratford for the Cullitons. After one season in Stratford, he went on to play for the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey League. After two seasons in Peterborough, Pronger was drafted second overall in the NHL Draft by the Hartford Whalers (now Carolina Hurricanes). He turned pro in 1993, and over the course of his career, he played for five teams, including the Whalers, St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Ducks, and Philadelphia Flyers.

Pronger retired in 2011 due to a career-ending eye injury along with post-concussion symptoms. Following his retirement, Pronger moved back to St Louis and stayed connected to the game as a special assignment scout for the Flyers (2011-2014); a director in the NHL’s Department of Player Safety (2014-2017); and a senior advisor to the general manager (Dale Tallon) of the Florida Panthers (2017-2020).

Dr. Julie Stamm is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of the book, "The Brain on Youth Sports: The Science, the Myths, and the Future." She received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award fellowship for her doctoral research at the Boston University CTE Center on the age of first exposure to repetitive brain trauma in sports. She is also a licensed athletic trainer.