This meeting was the first in-person gathering for the Knowledge Development and Exchange (KDE) Hub Leadership Team. Leadership team members share responsibility for KDE Hub outcomes, come from across Canada, are experts in a range of areas pertinent to child and youth mental health promotion, and come from academic and practice sectors. The main purposes of the meeting were to get to know each other, become familiar with the many contexts relevant to the positioning and work of the KDE Hub, establish ways of working together, and share perspectives, experiences and background work that would shape early directions of the Hub.