Rima Seiilova-Olson
Founder/CEO
Tenvos AI
From Risk to Resilience: How AI Is Transforming Fatigue Management
Fatigue is a critical safety concern in high-risk work like turnarounds because it impairs decision-making, reaction times, and physical coordination, significantly increasing the risk of accidents and injuries. With back-to-back turnarounds scheduled this past spring, Nova Chemicals’ leadership recognized the urgency to review and optimize existing countermeasures for greater effectiveness in relation to fatigue risks.
Driven by this recognition, they initiated a more comprehensive Fatigue Risk Management (FRM) approach, which included bringing in a fatigue risk management consultant and integrating innovative AI-based fatigue assessment technology. They integrated the Tenvos AI tool that detects impairment from just 6 seconds of speech into a pilot project that spanned both turnaround events.
Rima Seiilova-Olson, MSc is a CoFounder and CEO of Tenvos AI – a California-based startup backed by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, NVIDIA and a National Safety Council-approved vendor. Rima is a CoFounder and former Chief Scientist at Kintsugi, a mental health startup that detects depression from short clips of speech. Kintsugi was named 2024 Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum, AI50 by Forbes in 2022 and Cool Vendor by Gartner.
Rima was one the first ten engineers at a fintech decacorn Kaspi (the largest IPO of 2024 on Nasdaq, $17 billion valuation). Rima is an experienced public speaker who presented at various events and venues including at the White House