Professor Allan de Caen is a Pediatric Intensive Care Consultant and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Stollery Children's Hospital within the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Canada. His research/clinical interests include Resuscitation Medicine and Critical Care Transport Medicine. He has held leadership positions within the ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation) since 2003, and between 2005-2016 was ILCOR's Pediatric Task Force Co-chair, helping lead its systematic review process of the Pediatric Resuscitation literature. He has been part of the knowledge translation process into the "PALS" resuscitation guidelines for Heart and Stroke Canada and the American Heart Association (AHA) since 2003 and was the writing group chair for AHA's 2015 PALS guidelines. 

Professor Andy Lockey is a consultant in Emergency Medicine at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust and visiting professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Huddersfield. Andy first became involved with Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) in 1993, when he became an ALS Instructor, and he completed a three-year tenure as President of RCUK in December 2024. Andy has been an active member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) since 2010. His academic publications focus on the educational approach to resuscitation training.

Andy is a vocal advocate for training all children in CPR and defibrillator awareness. He was integral in the development of the European Restart a Heart initiative in 2013 and has led the RCUK Restart a Heart initiative since its inception in 2016 which has led to over 1 million children being trained in CPR. During this time, a parallel lobbying initiative in partnership with the British Heart Foundation, St John, and British Red Cross has resulted in CPR training becoming mandatory for all children in the UK. Andy also co-leads World Restart a Heart. He was awarded an MBE in the King’s inaugural New Year’s Honours list in 2023 for services to resuscitation training.

Dr Olasveengen is a professor and intensivist at University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital with a broad interest in cardiac arrest research, from qualitative studies in emergency medical dispatch to clinical studies, randomized trials and basic animal research. Current research is concentrated on how to protect the brain after cardiac arrest and other types of brain injury. She is also a member of the Science Advisory Committee for of the International Liaison Committee On Resuscitation (ILCOR) Basic Life Support task force, and volunteer with the European Resuscitation Council, working to evaluate our current knowledge base in resuscitation science and translate this knowledge into guidelines and education.