The panel · 2026
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.
The ask
No judge scores all thirteen categories. You take the handful your own work qualifies you to read — the invite names them — and you can hand any of them back. It is asynchronous and it happens in a browser; there is nothing to attend.
Dates arrive on this page once the panel is confirmed. The charter publishes judge bios before nominations open, so the panel is named first and the calendar follows it.
Confirmed so far
Right now the founding seat is filled. External judges are being recruited — put yourself forward below, name someone else, or pass the page along. Target: 5–7 named practitioners before nominations open. About 4+ external seats still open.
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 entriesJudges 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.
Before you answer
No. Each judge takes roughly four to six, matched to what you actually work on, and the invite names which ones. Hand any of them back and they move to another judge.
No, and that is deliberate. Cycle-one judges are fully ineligible as nominees and as finalists — it is what keeps the panel's own conflict clean. If your work belongs in a category more than you belong on the panel, say so and we will invite you as a nominee instead.
Yes. Your affiliation prints on this page beside your name. A vendor-neutral program that hides who its judges work for is not vendor-neutral; naming it is the neutrality.
Email the producer and that category moves to another judge. In a field this small it is expected, there is no penalty for saying so, and the only real failure is scoring it anyway.
No. Scores stay private. What publishes is the roster, the affiliations, and the People's Choice vote counts.
Neither. No appearance fees, no travel, no fundraising, no sponsor obligations.
No. The producer's own properties — Ship It Weekly and On Call Brief — are People's Choice–only if they are entered at all, and are never eligible for the Jury Award you decide.
It is never published. It carries the invite and a one-time magic link that signs you into the judge portal, and nothing else.
Tell us and we backfill the seat. Nothing about you is published without your consent, and there is no multi-year commitment.
Recruiting
Two doors, one form: tick the box at the bottom if you are putting yourself forward, leave it clear if you are naming somebody else. Either way this is a nomination for the jury, not for an award category. Everything is reviewed privately, and nothing is published without the person's consent.