Smartcat Named Finalist for 2026 LTEN Excellence Awards

Recognition highlights a partnership focused on advancing equitable training and global compliance at enterprise scale.

Smartcat has been named a finalist for the 2026 LTEN Excellence Awards in the Excellence in Culture & Collaboration Partnership category. The recognition celebrates a joint pilot program in which the company partnered with one of the world's largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies to advance the organization’s equitable training and global compliance through faster, more connected global training delivery.

Working with the global healthcare giant’s learning team, Smartcat provided the AI-powered localization platform behind a more connected approach to global training delivery: rather than treating translation as a downstream step, the partnership introduced a more connected workflow where localization could happen in parallel with content development.

The pilot delivered significant, measurable results:

• $56,000 in cost savings (80% reduction compared to the organization’s previous approach)

• 87% faster content delivery

• 92% lower localization costs overall

• Simultaneous training rollout in multiple languages

For global learning teams, that kind of workflow can make the difference between staggered rollout and day-one readiness across markets.

The recognition underscores a broader challenge in life sciences learning: the adaptation gap, or the gap between when change happens and when every market is operating on the latest approved training.

Global training teams are under pressure to update content faster, reach more markets, and maintain consistency across languages — without adding manual overhead or compromising quality. The traditional answer has been to add resources, extend timelines, or accept that some markets will always lag behind.

What this partnership demonstrated is that the constraint isn't inevitable. With the right workflow design and technology infrastructure, enterprise learning organizations can help teams move toward more consistent, coordinated rollout across markets while maintaining quality controls.

“We’re proud to be recognized together for work that addressed a critical challenge in global learning,” said Ron Thomas, Chief Revenue Officer at Smartcat. “This partnership shows that faster, more equitable global training depends on more than automation. It takes the right balance of humans and AI working together with proper governance.”

The LTEN Excellence Awards are the only awards program dedicated specifically to life sciences learning professionals. Finalists and winners will be celebrated at the LTEN Excellence Awards Gala on June 17, 2026, during the LTEN Annual Conference in Kissimmee, Florida.