Quest for Excellence Conference

#BaldrigeQuest

The 37th Quest for Excellence Conference

March 29-April 1, 2026 | Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore MD

COME. LEARN. NETWORK. ENGAGE.

Join us at the Quest for Excellence 2026!  We are excited to bring the Baldrige community together to celebrate and learn from the 2025 Baldrige Award recipients.

Enjoy sessions featuring leaders of Baldrige Award recipients and other high-performing organizations and take home solutions to help your organization achieve breakthrough performance and results in areas such as leadership; strategy; customers; workforce; and operations. 

Registration and Hotel Reservations

Registration and Hotel Reservations: Opens November 2025
Both conference registration and hotel reservations will be made through Showcare. All hotel rooms must be reserved through Showcare.

Award Ceremony | Sunday, March 29

Join us Sunday evening for the Baldrige Award Ceremony and Reception honoring the 2025 recipients. Attendees have the opportunity to network with members of the Baldrige community, such as Award recipients, Examiners, Judges, Overseers, Fellows, Foundation members, and Alliance program representatives

Conference Highlights

Keynote Presentations
This year’s Quest conference will feature keynote presentations by nationally recognized thought leaders, authors, and leading industry executives.

Opening Plenary Session
Following the Monday keynote, an opening plenary session featuring the leaders of the 2025 Baldrige Award Recipients.

Concurrent sessions
Monday and Tuesday will feature Baldrige Award recipients and other high-performing organizations speaking on relevant topics of interest, such as leadership and social responsibility, operational continuity and resilience, workforce issues, and customers and strategy. 

Closing Plenary Session
The Wednesday morning plenary session will feature the 2025 Baldrige Award Recipients.

What Quest Attendees Are Saying

learned more in three days at Quest...

than ten years in leadership

2024 Quest for Excellence Conference Attendee
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This whole process has been mind-blowing as a leader. 
I learned more in three days at the Quest conference than I have in ten years in a leadership capacity.

Become a Baldrige Sponsor Today!

The Baldrige Program extends a sincere thank you to Baldrige Foundation donors and the 36th Quest for Excellence® Conference sponsors (listed below). Sponsor support helps to defray conference costs and make Quest a better conference experience for all attendees.