The panel · 2026

Real names, real pagers.

The Jury Award is decided by named practitioners — not anonymous ballots, not a vendor committee. Cycle one is recruiting an external panel of 5–7 people. Bios and affiliations publish here before nominations open. Judges are ineligible as nominees in the same cycle.

Suggest a judge

Confirmed so far

The panel is being built in public

Right now the founding seat is filled. External judges are being recruited — suggest someone below, or share the form. Target: 5–7 named practitioners before nominations open. About 4+ external seats still open.

Brian Teller

Producer · founding panel seat

Affiliation: Teller's Tech

Hosts Ship It Weekly and publishes On Call Brief. Building the first LMGT Awards cycle in public — including the conflict rules that keep Teller's Tech People's Choice–only.

Program producer — conflict rules apply to Teller's Tech entries

How judging works

Judges independently score eligible nominations against the category definition, then meet to settle finalists and the Jury Award. Scores are not published; affiliations and People's Choice vote counts are. The People's Choice is decided entirely by confirmed public vote — the panel has no hand in it.

Cycle-one judges are fully ineligible as nominees or finalists.
Employer / vendor affiliations are printed on this page.
Teller's Tech casts no judge vote in any category it has entered.

The full process, in the rules →

Recruiting

Suggest someone for the panel

Know a practitioner who should help shortlist finalists? Suggest them — or yourself. This is a nomination for the jury, not for an award category. Suggestions are reviewed privately; nothing is published without the person's consent.