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.
The full conference agenda is posted at www.paleadershipconference.org
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.
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.
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Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania State Senator, represents the 33rd District, serving Adams and Franklin counties. A retired U.S. Army Colonel, he completed more than 30 years of active-duty service, beginning with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in West Germany along the Iron Curtain. Doug deployed during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, later served as a lead planner for the post-9/11 invasion of Iraq via Turkey, and from 2006 to 2009 deployed three times to Afghanistan as Director of NATO’s Joint Intelligence Center.
Doug concluded his military career as a Professor of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Army War College. He holds a Ph.D. in History and four master’s degrees in strategic and military studies and is the author of several works on American military history. With extensive scholarly knowledge of the American founding and Revolutionary era, he brings a historian’s perspective to discussions surrounding America 250 and the enduring principles that shaped the nation.