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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Luis González

Product Designer / UX-UI - Freelancer / Startuper

Katie Swindler

User Experience Strategist - Allstate

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Surya Vanka

Founder & Chief Designer at Authentic Design

Axel Pasqualini

Director at Apptitude SA

Arnaud Begle

Group CEO at Peter Lang

Alain Priser

Lead Product Designer and Manager at Labster.io

Rémi Rivas

Consulting Designer at Rivas Consulting

Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Olivier Petro

Owner at YOUBEQUITE

Mikhaél Minisini

Director at Apptitude SA

Daniela Busse (Ph.D.)

Head of Research at eBay

Sylvie Gelinas

CEO at Noos Technologie inc.

Cédric Hofstetter

Product Owner Web at A. Lange & Söhne

Jeroen Frumau

Owner at Talents-4U BV

Julien Suard

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

Benoît Dubouloz

COO at Knowledge Expert

Hélène Valat

Digital project manager at Wide

Julien Guex

Managing director at FIT Fondation pour l'innovation technologique

Prescott Paulin

Managing Director - Iquro Development Group, LLC

Daniel Herrera

Product Design Engineer & Innovation Strategist at Dees Studio

Cheri Ruane

Practice Leader for Landscape Architecture - Weston & Sampson Design Studio

Jean-Philippe van den Hove

Founder at Alphabeta

Gael Close

Staff System Architect at Melexis

Mateo Fernandez

Sr. product Manager at Rootstrap INC

Christophe Gras

Founder & CEO at Labster.io

Jake Knapp

Creator of the Design Sprint process at Google

Alexis Moeckli

Founder at WENOVE.CH

Jaime Endick

Strategist/ Freelance

Danella Alfaro

Marketing & Communications Manager - Knowledge Expert

Steph Cruchon

CEO Design Sprint Ltd - itoday Conference Organizer

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

Michael Vuilleumier

Designer - User Experience & Interface - Apptitude SA

Dardan Iljazi

Full Stack Developer

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Fran Navarro

Product Designer at Accedo

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Kristina Pankov

Learning manager - Consultant Freelance

Jackie Colburn

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

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Yves Zieba

Director - AgileNetup

Diana Liu

Founder | Instigator | Fun Maker - The SIX

Jennifer Löffler

Innovation Facilitator at itConcept srl

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Martin Sandhu

Founder at Nuom

Claude-Alain Glauser

Solution Unit Manager at Trivadis

Marie Girard

Product Manager at IBM

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Mike Caskey

Design Partner, Product Exploration