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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Matthieu Chamorel

Founder at DYN SA I Fiduciaire

Jean-Marie Buchilly

Innovation Cell Manager at Fischer Connectors

Eberhard Schächterle

Innovation Advisor at Eberhard Schächterle Innovationsberatung

Andre Alfonso

Agile Coach - Knowledge Expert SA

Shaun Miller

Head of Strategy at House

Sylvie Gelinas

CEO at Noos Technologie inc.

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Kai Haley

Head of UX Methods and Process at Google

Fatemeh Ghadamieh

CEO at Limoo

Benoît Dubouloz

COO at Knowledge Expert

Jackie Colburn

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

Sandy Lam

Design System Lead at SoftwareAG

Orlane Perey

Designer & Art Director at Serendipity Agency

Anaïs Salson

Entrepreneur, Globe Trotter, Speaker - Try The New

Katie Swindler

User Experience Strategist - Allstate

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Chris Hodges

Design Lead at Siemens

Vladimir Koncar

Director of Design - Kiwi.com

Yves Pigneur

Professor Emeritus UNIL

Marie Girard

Product Manager at IBM

Jonas Vonlanthen

Partner - Liip Digital Progress

Dardan Iljazi

Full Stack Developer

Prescott Paulin

Managing Director - Iquro Development Group, LLC

Julien Guex

Managing director at FIT Fondation pour l'innovation technologique

Jaime Endick

Strategist/ Freelance

John Elbing

Coach/Consultant/Storyteller at Standpoint

Fides Fierz

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Yves Zieba

Director - AgileNetup

Alban Vogel

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Danella Alfaro

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Julien Suard

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Ana Paula da Silva

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Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Marc Gruber

Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Lisa Weinsberger

Remote Design Sprint & Innovation Facilitator at Designtribe

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Michael Vuilleumier

Designer - User Experience & Interface - Apptitude SA

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Thiago Tonus

Head of Product Design - Logic Design

Mariella Pastori

Innovation Consultant at MPConsulting

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

François de Caro

Founder & UX Designer at D-Sprint

Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Jeroen Frumau

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Fran Navarro

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Yves Jobin

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