(Harrisburg, PA) The 2026 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will feature five panel presentations including: The Health Care Check Up: Why Competition Beats Bureaucracy; Ain’t Got Stuff Done: Examining Governor Shapiro’s record; Ideas to Impacts: Entrepreneurship in Pennsylvania; Protect Women’s Sports; and Powering the Future: Energy and AI in Pennsylvania.
The 2026 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will be held April 9-11, 2026 at the Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. The featured dinner speaker will be Newsmax founder/CEO Chris Ruddy. Washington Examiner columnist and Fox News contributor Joe Concha will be the luncheon speaker. Speakers include Slippery Rock Mayor Jondavid “JD” Longo; and State Treasurer and Republican gubernatorial candidate Stacy Garrity. Additional speakers will be announced over the coming weeks.
The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premiere gathering of public policy conservatives each year in the Keystone State. It is the largest and longest-running of the state-based conservative conferences regularly attracting a long list of conservative elected officials, scholars, journalists, and activists for three days of speeches, panel presentations, workshops, and networking.
Registration for the 2026 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is NOW OPEN at www.paleadershipconference.org. (Please note the Early Bird discount rate is built into the registration fee so there is no need to enter a discount code as it will be automatically applied. The PLC web site also includes a brief video tutorial to help you navigate the registration system.)
This year’s Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will provide attendees with an expanded menu of workshop sessions on Thursday and a new welcome reception on Thursday evening.
Workshop sessions include: From Community to the Capitol: Recruiting the Right Leaders; Stop Shapiro’s Tax Hikes; Getting Stuff Right: Protecting Life, Families & Religious Liberty; Are Your Ready to Run: Questions to Ask Yourself Before Running for Office; Show Me the Money: Putting the Fun in Fundraising; Faith & Politics: Appealing to Conservatives of Faith; Social Media: Battling the Keyboard Warriors; Public Speaking: Overcoming the World’s # 1 Fear; Capturing the Youth Vote: Engaging a New Generation: The Real Nature of Politics; Powering Pennsylvania: Energy Policy, Prices and Jobs; Roadmap to an America First Immigration System: Election Integrity & Litigation: Inside and Outside the Commonwealth; Pennsylvania’s Shifting Coalitions; A History of the Republican Party.
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Moderator: Emily Greene Brey, Americans for Prosperity
Panelists: Gabrielle Minarik, Paragon Institute; Lauren Stewart, Americans for Prosperity; David Rowe, State Representative
Ain’t Got Stuff Done: Examining Governor Shapiro’s Record
Moderator: Andrew Lewis, Commonwealth Foundation
Panelists: Kim Ward, PA Senate President Pro Tempore; Jesse Topper, PA House Republican Leader
Ideas to Impacts: Entrepreneurship in PA
Moderator: Carl Marrara, PA Manufacturers Association
Panelists: Mike Kennedy, Entrepreneur; Greg Moreland, National Federation of Independent Business; Valerie Gaydos, State Representative
Protect Women’s Sports
Moderator: Alexis Sneller, PA Family Institute
Panelists: Barb Gleim, State Representative; Clint Owlett, State Representative; Kristin Phillips Hill, State Senator
Powering the Future: Energy and AI in PA
Moderator: Joy Johnson, PA Manufacturers Association
Panelists: J. Kevin Mooney, Author; Jim Welty, Marcellus Shale Coalition