Barry Nelson

Barry Nelson is a seasoned entrepreneur and currently serves as the President and CEO of FactorLab, the provider of the popular and rapidly growing safety leading indicator application SmartTagIt, which has been used by field professionals across dozens of enterprises over 2.8 million times in the last four years. With over 20 years of experience at the intersection of incident prevention and technology, Mr. Nelson and his teams have helped hundreds of companies, including Fortune 100s and startups, to utilize emerging technologies, organizational science, and machine learning to significantly reduce accidents and injuries in the workplace.

As a thought leader and researcher, Mr. Nelson is actively working with industry leaders on the opportunity to use workplace conversations, combined with computational linguistics and natural language processing, to identify early indicators of unplanned, potential catastrophic events in the workplace.