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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Jake Knapp

Creator of the Design Sprint process at Google

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Clemence de Robert

UX Designer

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Jackie Colburn

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

Michael Vuilleumier

Designer - User Experience & Interface - Apptitude SA

Christophe Gras

Founder & CEO at Labster.io

Caroline Pratte

Founder at Conversations.coach

Marie Girard

Product Manager at IBM

Sandy Lam

Design System Lead at SoftwareAG

Matthieu Chamorel

Founder at DYN SA I Fiduciaire

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Kristina Pankov

Learning manager - Consultant Freelance

Başak Çevik

Consultant - StratejiCo

Diana Liu

Founder | Instigator | Fun Maker - The SIX

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

Mikhaél Minisini

Director at Apptitude SA

Anne Donnard

Executive Creative Director at Emerson Blue

Thiago Tonus

Head of Product Design - Logic Design

Nadeem Khalawi

Developer

Anaïs Salson

Entrepreneur, Globe Trotter, Speaker - Try The New

Marco D’Amico

Strategic Innovation Advisor at oobrain S.r.l. SB

Cédric Hofstetter

Product Owner Web at A. Lange & Söhne

Mateo Fernandez

Sr. product Manager at Rootstrap INC

Alain Priser

Lead Product Designer and Manager at Labster.io

Gael Nini

Head of Project Managemet Office at Electro Medical Systems

Fides Fierz

Owner at Capsica23

Jennifer Löffler

Innovation Facilitator at itConcept srl

Prescott Paulin

Managing Director - Iquro Development Group, LLC

Rémi Rivas

Consulting Designer at Rivas Consulting

Surya Vanka

Founder & Chief Designer at Authentic Design

Emmanuelle Germond

Geek Human translator at CH-Open / PPVD / intergen

Alex Osterwalder

Co-founder Strategyzer

Yves Zieba

Director - AgileNetup

Daniela Busse (Ph.D.)

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Alona Nadieieva

Pega CSSA at Knowledge Expert

Ed Orozco

Head of Strategy - WANDR

Betina García Nogués

Founder & UX Lead

Jonas Vonlanthen

Partner - Liip Digital Progress

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Cheri Ruane

Practice Leader for Landscape Architecture - Weston & Sampson Design Studio

Fran Navarro

Product Designer at Accedo

Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Ana Paula da Silva

CEO, Digital strategist and facilitator consultant at Rethink.br

François de Caro

Founder & UX Designer at D-Sprint

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Julien Guex

Managing director at FIT Fondation pour l'innovation technologique

Paul Van Der Linden

Founder and Owner at PaulvanderLinden-Consulting

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Amritha Narayanan

Product Manager at Pix4D