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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François de Caro

Founder & UX Designer at D-Sprint

Eglé Cruchon

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

Sandy Lam

Design System Lead at SoftwareAG

Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Patrycja Rozmus

Design System Lead - Brainly

Benoît Dubouloz

COO at Knowledge Expert

Caroline Pratte

Founder at Conversations.coach

Matthieu Chamorel

Founder at DYN SA I Fiduciaire

Ana Paula da Silva

CEO, Digital strategist and facilitator consultant at Rethink.br

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Lisa Mo Wagner

Sr. Product Manager at Finiata

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Thiago Tonus

Head of Product Design - Logic Design

Shaun Miller

Head of Strategy at House

Anja Borchhardt

Head of Experience Management at Helsana

Sylvie Gelinas

CEO at Noos Technologie inc.

Axel Pasqualini

Director at Apptitude SA

Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Alex Osterwalder

Co-founder Strategyzer

Orlane Perey

Designer & Art Director at Serendipity Agency

Sabrina Goerlich

Founder | Strategic Designer at Designsprintstudio

Vladimir Koncar

Director of Design - Kiwi.com

Mike Caskey

Design Partner, Product Exploration

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Jaime Endick

Strategist/ Freelance

Hugo De Sousa

Managing Partner at UNSETTLED.TECH

Mariella Pastori

Innovation Consultant at MPConsulting

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Laïla von Alvensleben

Head of Culture and Collaboration at MURAL

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Fran Navarro

Product Designer at Accedo

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Yves Pigneur

Professor Emeritus UNIL

Bruce Hecht

CEO/CTO at VG2PLAY

Mateo Fernandez

Sr. product Manager at Rootstrap INC

Anne Donnard

Executive Creative Director at Emerson Blue

Marc Gruber

Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Rémi Rivas

Consulting Designer at Rivas Consulting

Arnaud Begle

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Thomas Link

Creative Director - Namics

Steph Cruchon

CEO Design Sprint Ltd - itoday Conference Organizer

Clemence de Robert

UX Designer

Daniel Herrera

Product Design Engineer & Innovation Strategist at Dees Studio

John Elbing

Coach/Consultant/Storyteller at Standpoint

Andre Alfonso

Agile Coach - Knowledge Expert SA

Michaël Ambass

Associé & Digital Project Manager at troisdeuxun sàrl

Mathieu Menet

Innovation Manager at La Ruche tl

Srini Srinivasan

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