Marc Gruber EPFL

Marc Gruber

Position: Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Professor Marc Gruber is Vice President for Innovation at EPFL, full professor at the College of Management of Technology at EPFL where he holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization (ENTC), and co-author of “Where to Play: 3 Steps for Discovering your most valuable Market Opportunities”, the latest addition to the lean startup toolset.

Marc also acted as Associate (2013-2016) and as Deputy Editor (2017-2020) at the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), the highest ranked empirical research journal in the management domain. In an independent research study on the most impactful entrepreneurship scholars (Gupta et al., 2016), Marc was ranked as the worldwide #1 researcher in entrepreneurship for the 2005-2015 period (shared #1 spot), and among the worldwide top 5 for the 2000-2015 period.

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Christophe Gras

Founder & CEO at Labster.io

Mariella Pastori

Innovation Consultant at MPConsulting

Hugo De Sousa

Managing Partner at UNSETTLED.TECH

Eberhard Schächterle

Innovation Advisor at Eberhard Schächterle Innovationsberatung

Anaïs Salson

Entrepreneur, Globe Trotter, Speaker - Try The New

Katie Swindler

User Experience Strategist - Allstate

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Kai Haley

Head of UX Methods and Process at Google

Axel Pasqualini

Director at Apptitude SA

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Jeroen Frumau

Owner at Talents-4U BV

Loïc Volery

Looking for opportunities/ Bachelor of Business Administration (FR/DE), Focus Digital Business

Danella Alfaro

Marketing & Communications Manager - Knowledge Expert

Nadeem Khalawi

Developer

Jean-Sébastien Daigle

Facilitator & Designer at JSdaigle

Cédric Hofstetter

Product Owner Web at A. Lange & Söhne

Fatemeh Ghadamieh

CEO at Limoo

Daniel Herrera

Product Design Engineer & Innovation Strategist at Dees Studio

Yann Ringgenberg

Founder & UX designer at :ratio

Mikhaél Minisini

Director at Apptitude SA

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Arnaud Begle

Group CEO at Peter Lang

Julien Suard

Lead Product Designer UX / UI at Design Sprint Ltd- itoday Conference Organizer

Martin Sandhu

Founder at Nuom

Lisa Mo Wagner

Sr. Product Manager at Finiata

Benoît Dubouloz

COO at Knowledge Expert

Sabrina Goerlich

Founder | Strategic Designer at Designsprintstudio

Marie Girard

Product Manager at IBM

Steph Cruchon

CEO Design Sprint Ltd - itoday Conference Organizer

Jackie Colburn

Product Leader. Facilitator. Design Sprinter. Experimenter. Educator. - Independent Consultant

Thiago Tonus

Head of Product Design - Logic Design

Alain Priser

Lead Product Designer and Manager at Labster.io

Vladimir Koncar

Director of Design - Kiwi.com

Cheri Ruane

Practice Leader for Landscape Architecture - Weston & Sampson Design Studio

Alexander Sattler

Transformation Consultant - Sattler Consulting

Gael Nini

Head of Project Managemet Office at Electro Medical Systems

Hélène Valat

Digital project manager at Wide

Cristina Famano

Co-founder at ADA Strategy

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Jake Knapp

Creator of the Design Sprint process at Google

Kevin Richard

Senior Designer, UX Strategist

Fides Fierz

Owner at Capsica23

Sasa Spasic

Business Design and Innovation

Alban Vogel

Product Designer - Cleverdist SA

Michael Vuilleumier

Designer - User Experience & Interface - Apptitude SA

Alexis Moeckli

Founder at WENOVE.CH

Shaun Miller

Head of Strategy at House

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Marc Gruber

Vice President for Innovation at EPFL