Now in its 19th year, the Leading Lights is Light Reading’s way of recognizing the innovation, technical and market achievements of the evolving global communications industry. We appreciate your respect for our awards process during the last few years of heightened media distrust. As much as we admire the efforts of the companies and individuals who have entered, we can’t put everyone through to the final round, but we have done our best to read each entry with fresh eyes and judge them on their own merits. Based on your feedback, we’ve returned to a winner-take-all approach to the technical and product categories. And that means that now more than ever if you’re a Leading Lights finalist, you should be proud of your ability to stand out. Our finalist round begins soon and our judging panel will include: Dell’Oro Group’s Jeff Heynen and Jimmy Yu; Tantra Analyst’s Prakash Sangam; our Informa colleagues James Crawshaw, Roz Roseboro, Pablo Tomasi and Jaimie Lenderman; Rosenblatt Securities’ Mike Genovese; US Ignite’s Mari Silbey; Vertical Systems Group’s Erin Dunne; and our Heavy Reading colleagues Sterling Perrin, Jennifer Clark and Gabriel Brown.
