PA Chamber’s Luke Bernstein to Address 2026 PA Leadership Conference

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(Harrisburg, PA) Luke Bernstein, President & CEO of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business & Industry will speak at the 2026 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference which 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; State Treasurer and Republican gubernatorial candidate Stacy Garrity, U.S. Representative Scott Perry, Cliff Maloney of the Citizens Alliance, U.S. Senator David McCormick, Pennsylvania Attorney General David Sunday, and Commonwealth Foundation President & CEO Andrew Lewis. Additional speakers will be announced.

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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Luke Bernstein is president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry. Luke has more than 20 years of experience in business, government, and public policy, and has held leadership roles in the private sector, state government, and as an appointed advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush. Before joining the Chamber in 2022, Luke was an executive at Orrstown Financial Services and previously served as deputy chief of staff to Gov. Tom Corbett. A Dickinson College graduate, Luke also completed the Duke Leadership Program and remains active in his community as a board member and youth sports coach.

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