Sercan Esen
Co-founder & CEO, Intenseye · New York

Sercan Esen

Hi, I'm Sercan, co-founder and CEO of Intenseye. We use computer vision to help factories keep their people safe. I live in New York and spend most weeks at the plants we work with across the US 🇺🇸. The rest of this site is the other parts of my life: the trees I draw, the books and records I keep coming back to.

Sercan Esen in PPE at a customer plant in Spokane, WashingtonSpokane, Washington
Now · September 2026
Latest writing
PSIFs are one of the most underused signal metrics in safety
intenseye.com · 2026-07
Latest post
It’s all about people
LinkedIn · 2026-07-09
Speaking
HSE Learning Summit UK · Keynote
Birmingham, UK · Jul 2026
Reading
Scaling People
Claire Hughes Johnson
On the road 🇺🇸

I've visited our customers in 26 states, and counting. Drop me a note if you'd like me to visit yours.

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AlabamaAlaskaArizonaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaIndianaKansasMaineMassachusettsMinnesotaNew JerseyNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOklahomaPennsylvaniaSouth DakotaTexasWyomingConnecticutMissouriWest VirginiaIllinoisNew MexicoArkansasCaliforniaDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaHawaiiIowaKentuckyMarylandMichiganMississippiMontanaNew HampshireNew YorkOhioOregonTennesseeUtahVirginiaWashingtonWisconsinNebraskaSouth CarolinaIdahoNevadaVermontLouisianaRhode Island
States26 / 50
Cities31
Customer visits · 202527
Miles · 202522,487
Speaking

Where I've spoken, and how to invite me.

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The room at the HSE Learning Summit, April 2026
HSE Learning Summit · Dallas · Apr 2026
Trees

The trees I draw, in a small kraft notebook, mostly in Central Park.

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CENTRAL PARK · WINTER · 03
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KRAFT · ORANGE · 2021 · 03
CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK · 2021-07
Shelf

Books I keep coming back to.

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Amp It Up
Amp It Up
The Lessons of History
The Lessons of History
Extreme Ownership
Extreme Ownership
The Coaching Habit
The Coaching Habit
Multipliers
Multipliers
Primed to Perform
Primed to Perform
Turntable

The records I play in my office.

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Gold: Greatest Hits on the office turntable
Playing now
ABBA · Gold: Greatest Hits · 1992
Gold: Greatest Hits
ABBA
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
Master of Puppets
Metallica
Training

I rowed in university. In 2025 I finished my first half-Ironman.

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Map of Morning Ride© OpenStreetMap
36.0 mi · 2:13:18 · 1,165 ft · 2025-05-04 · Manhattan, New York
Morning Ride
Longest · swim1.22 mi
Longest · bike56.0 mi
Longest · run13.2 mi
Ironman 70.3 Musselman · 2025-07-13Done
Recognition

Patents, cases, articles and awards, with sources.

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USPTO
Granted Jan 2026
US patent · co-inventor
Harvard Business School
Case 622-037
Case study on Intenseye
World Economic Forum
Global Innovator · 2026
Technology Pioneer · 2023
Forbes
AI 50 · 2022
Intenseye on the list
Writing

Occasional notes, some published elsewhere.

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2025-09
Why manufacturing companies now see safe workplaces as a competitive advantage
weforum.org
2025-04
How was Intenseye born?
intenseye.com
2025-12
22,487 miles, 11 states, 27 onsite visits: what I kept hearing on plant floors
linkedin.com
LinkedIn

20,544 followers. 1.8M impressions in the last year.

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2026-07-09
It’s all about people
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2026-05-28
I love building
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2026-04-16
Since 2017, serious injuries and fatalities have plateaued
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