ATD International Conference & Expo 2026
Meet SmartWinnr at ATD 2026 in Los Angeles
Join us at the world's largest talent development conference. Visit Booth #1001, attend our Solution Session, and see AI roleplays in action.
May 17–20, 2026
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Booth #1001
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Our Session at ATD26
ATD Solution Session
The Science of Practice: What 1 Million AI Roleplays Reveal about Skill Mastery
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Room 304 C, Los Angeles Convention Center
Speaker: Shiladitya Mallik, Co-founder & CBO, SmartWinnr
Key Learning Objectives
Understand key patterns in how customer-facing learners build skills through AI-driven repeated practice
Apply a structured practice framework to improve field readiness and learning retention
Leverage measurable indicators and coaching signals to drive continuous skill development and performance improvement
About This Session
Drawing on insights from over 1 million AI-driven roleplays across global organizations, this session reveals how field professionals actually build conversational competence.
You’ll learn how many practice attempts it actually takes to reach proficiency to achieve proficiency, why repeated practice drives measurable improvement, and how challenging conversations accelerate learning.
The session also highlights the role of structured practice design and manager involvement in turning training into real-world readiness.
Designed for learning leaders and enablement professionals, this session offers a practical framework to rethink roleplays as a continuous, measurable driver of performance.
AI roleplays analyzed across global organizations
Improvement in roleplay performance scores (based on AI evaluation) in just 3 practice attempts
Meet Our Speaker
Shiladitya Mallik
Co-founder & Chief Business Officer · SmartWinnr
Shiladitya Mallik is the Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at SmartWinnr, an AI-powered platform helping global life sciences organizations strengthen workforce capability and field readiness.
With more than 23 years of experience spanning technology, consultative selling, and executive education, he works with enterprise learning leaders to design scalable capability-building programs that translate training into measurable field performance.
Mallik regularly partners with global L&D and commercial excellence teams to modernize how organizations develop critical skills by combining coaching, practice, and AI-driven simulations to help teams perform confidently in real-world conversations.
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Attending ATD26? Don't Miss Our Session
If you're going to be in Los Angeles May 17-20, reserve your spot for our Solution Session and walk away with a data-backed framework for building real field readiness through AI-driven practice.