Strengthen Your Leadership, Empower Your Community
The NTCA Summer Symposium brings rural broadband board members together for focused conversations and education around governance and leadership. Whether you are new to the boardroom or have years of experience, the agenda is built to strengthen oversight, clarify responsibilities and sharpen strategic thinking applicable to uniquely rural environments.
Sessions address the issues directors are actively managing: board communication, risk and compliance, capital planning, advocacy, long-term strategy and more. The emphasis is on real-world application: what works, what can be improved, and how other boards are adapting to regulatory, financial and competitive pressures.
Just as valuable as the educational agenda is the networking. Experience the benefit of sitting alongside board members from many companies and hearing, candidly, what they are doing. Those peer-to-peer conversations surface cautionary lessons and new approaches you can bring home to your own boardroom.
Make this the year your full board attends. Shared learning leads to stronger alignment and better decisions for the communities you serve.
Earn an NTCA Certificate Designed for Board of Directors in Rural Telecom
NTCA recognizes member participation in educational activities through the Director Core Curriculum Certificate for board members of cooperative and commercial companies. Register your board member for the Summer Symposium and help them chart their path to a successful term.
Attending the Summer Symposium earns you credits toward your NTCA certificate for course codes T102, T109 and G108.
Summer Symposium Exhibitor
Winncom Technologies
Exhibitors as of June 1, 2026





