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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Rémi Rivas

Consulting Designer at Rivas Consulting

Steph Cruchon

CEO Design Sprint Ltd - itoday Conference Organizer

Julien Guex

Managing director at FIT Fondation pour l'innovation technologique

Damien Fournier

Founder- Director at deus ex digital

Daniela Busse (Ph.D.)

Head of Research at eBay

Eberhard Schächterle

Innovation Advisor at Eberhard Schächterle Innovationsberatung

Caroline Pratte

Founder at Conversations.coach

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Kevin Richard

Senior Designer, UX Strategist

Mikhaél Minisini

Director at Apptitude SA

Katie Swindler

User Experience Strategist - Allstate

François de Caro

Founder & UX Designer at D-Sprint

Mathieu Menet

Innovation Manager at La Ruche tl

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

Fran Navarro

Product Designer at Accedo

Olivier Petro

Owner at YOUBEQUITE

Sasa Spasic

Business Design and Innovation

Mariella Pastori

Innovation Consultant at MPConsulting

Cédric Hofstetter

Product Owner Web at A. Lange & Söhne

Ed Orozco

Head of Strategy - WANDR

Clemence de Robert

UX Designer

Loïc Volery

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

Cheri Ruane

Practice Leader for Landscape Architecture - Weston & Sampson Design Studio

Bruce Hecht

CEO/CTO at VG2PLAY

Patrycja Rozmus

Design System Lead - Brainly

Jameel Somji

Founder & CEO - SpiNovation Labs

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Alban Vogel

Product Designer - Cleverdist SA

Hélène Valat

Digital project manager at Wide

Julien Suard

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

Emmanuelle Germond

Geek Human translator at CH-Open / PPVD / intergen

Eglé Cruchon

itoday Conference Organizer / Office & Event Manager at Design Sprint Ltd

Anaïs Salson

Entrepreneur, Globe Trotter, Speaker - Try The New

Thiago Tonus

Head of Product Design - Logic Design

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Alona Nadieieva

Pega CSSA at Knowledge Expert

Yann Ringgenberg

Founder & UX designer at :ratio

Anja Borchhardt

Head of Experience Management at Helsana

Alexander Sattler

Transformation Consultant - Sattler Consulting

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Kai Haley

Head of UX Methods and Process at Google

Andre Alfonso

Agile Coach - Knowledge Expert SA

Jaime Endick

Strategist/ Freelance

Alex Osterwalder

Co-founder Strategyzer

Amritha Narayanan

Product Manager at Pix4D

Jennifer Löffler

Innovation Facilitator at itConcept srl

Jen Jeng

Founder and business strategist at Spica Strategy