The Challenge Ahead
Brownstone Annual Conference and Gala
Friday – Saturday, November 6-7, 2026
Ending Capture, Building Freedom
The Covid era revealed the commanding heights to be complicit and deeply corrupt. Not just pharma. It was media, tech, academia, and science itself. The effort to reform the system was made inevitable. Something has to change.
Reformers have done their best but faced enormous barriers on all fronts. Of course. How could it have been otherwise? The question now becomes how to deal with this problem. The paradigm has to change but how?
Brownstone Institute’s sixth annual conference and gala deals with all these themes and more. It takes place in lovely Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 6-7, 2026. This event is focussed on building a future where life isn’t dictated by distant bureaucracies, pharmaceutical giants, or entrenched interests that profit from making everyone sick. The goal: families and individuals are left alone to make their own choices, and government stops serving as a shield for industry capture. It’s about building real freedom.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
November 6-7, 2026
The Challenge Ahead brings together the sharpest minds, boldest reformers, and clearest voices in the fight to end the corruption that has ravaged generations. We’ll confront the hard truths head-on: regulatory capture, policies that prioritize pecuniary gain over prevention, and a system that has eroded trust, choice, and sovereignty.
This conference isn’t about despair. It’s about action. We’ll map the path forward: dismantling the mechanisms of capture, restoring medical and health freedom, empowering consumers and communities, decentralizing power from Washington back to families and states, and building a better America through transparency, innovation, and individual liberty.
It offers supporters a chance to learn from and exchange ideas with the best minds on the subjects of medicine, food, economics, education, technology, civil liberties, and spirituality – all the topics…
Join with these powerful thinkers and thought leaders to share knowledge and expertise, discover hidden histories, learn about the many government industrial complexes that have gained so much power, and find ways around and through this time of change.
Panelists & Speakers
We have to reclaim some control over our lives, and must have the freedom to do so. This concerns the whole of everything: the financial world, what we eat, and the medicalization of society. Ultimately, we need a spiritual recapturing of things, reorienting our sense of who we are and our purpose in this world.
Brownstone was founded as a sanctuary for community in terrible times, right in the lockdown morass. Coming out of that period, a new generation has arisen. We gather at this event with many of the best writers, scientists, journalists, and truth-tellers of our times.
Come ready to think deeply, debate fiercely, and leave energized.
Please join us …
Registration
Conference & Gala
Friday & Saturday, November 6-7, 2026
94 in stock
Conference & Gala + VIP dinner
Friday & Saturday, November 6-7, 2026
18 in stock
Conference Only
Friday & Saturday, November 6-7, 2026
26 in stock
Refund Policy
Contact us at [email protected] to request a refund.
We are happy to give full refunds (less $75 registration fee) until we have to give final headcounts to the hotel (No later than October 25, 2026).
After that point, we will only refund partial amounts.
Schedule of Events
Thursday, November 5, 2026
6:00-9:00 Cocktail Reception with Snacks Food served 6-8 only.
Drinks only after 8 (Separate Ticket required)
Friday, November 6, 2026
8:30 a.m. Registration: (Foyer outside Centennial Room)
9:00-9:40 Keynote: Jeffrey Tucker (Centennial Room)
9:40-11:30: Panels and break
11:30-Noon Speaker: Joel Salatin
Noon-2:00 p.m. Lunch (Silver Ballroom)
2:00-4:40 Panels and break
(VIP Dinner Separate Ticket Required)
6:00 Cocktails VIP, (River City Room)
7:00 Dinner VIP (River City Room) Joel Salatin, speaker
Saturday, November 7, 2026
9:00 a.m.-Noon Panels and break
Noon-2:00 p.m. Lunch (Silver Ballroom)
1:00-2:00 REPPARE IHRP presentation (Centennial Room)
2:00-4:00 Panels and break
6:00 Cocktails String Quartet Silver Ballroom (Gala Registration Required)
7:00 Dinner and Keynote: Rob Schneider, speaker
Dress: Conference is business casual, while dinner is black and white tie optional.
Dietary Concerns
If you require a special diet (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, etc.), please notify us at [email protected] so that we can make arrangements for you.
Hotel
Read House Hotel
107 West MLK Blvd., Chattanooga, TN 37402
If Calling (423-558-0878) to make reservations, mention:
Brownstone Institute Attendee Block
Conference room block (available until October 5, 2026):
Hotel Amenities and details:
- Indoor Pool & Fitness Center (6 am – 11 pm daily) for all overnight guests
- Wine & dine (Bridgeman’s Chophouse, Bar & Billiards Room, and Starbucks)
- Hotel Shopping (Monkee’s of Chattanooga – M-Sa 10 am – 7 pm; Sun 12 – 6 pm)
- Complimentary Wifi in guest rooms
- Valet Parking ($12 for event only and $28 for overnight guest, plus taxes)
- Library
- Room Service
Guest check in is 3:00 pm; check-out time is 11:00 am. To receive the specially-negotiated conference rate, reservations must be made by Thursday, October 5, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
Hotel Notes
Room type options:
Rates for Dates: 11/5/26 – 11/7/26
Premiere Single King / Double Queen Room – Tower $269/night*
Deluxe 2 Queen Beds – Manor $239/night*
Traditional Single King or Double Queen Bed – Manor $219/night*
Early Arrivals or Late Departures Receive Prevailing Rate for dates outside 11/5-11/7:
Premiere Single King / Double Queen Room – Tower $219/night*
Deluxe 2 Queen Beds – Manor $189/night*
Traditional Single King or Double Queen Bed – Manor $179/night*
*plus applicable taxes and service fee.
Room Rates apply for up to 2-person occupancy. After the cutoff date, rooms and special rates will be extended on a space available basis only. Cancellations made within 48 hours of check-in date will incur a fee equal to the first night’s room rate plus tax.The Read House Hotel is a smoke free hotel. The hotel is smoke free in all areas of the hotel, including but not limited to, the lobby, guest rooms, restaurant, lounge, meeting rooms and banquet facilities. To protect the smoke free environment, the hotel will post a $250 plus taxes cleaning fee to the account of any guests who smoke in their hotel room.