Annual Awards Judging

InBIA is seeking experienced entrepreneur support professionals who are interested in reviewing and scoring award applications to help select the excellent organizations, programs and clients to be recognized this year. By being a 2026 InBIA Awards judge you can: 

• Read about all the excellent work happening in the industry today
• Help select the programs, clients or organizations that deserve to be recognized
• Get more active in your involvement with the association 

If you submitted an application to be considered for an award, you can still apply to be a reviewer - we will just ask you to abstain from reviewing any application within the category for which you applied.

The applications will be organized in a review platform with a scoring rubric to structure reviewer feedback. The amount of time each judge can expect to spend reviewing the applications will be based on the number of applications we receive and the number of judges we have. It is estimated that each judge will put in about 7 hours of time. The judging window will be from February 2nd - February 16th. Once judging is complete, all judges will join a meeting February 18th to go over results and discuss finalists.