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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Jameel Somji

Founder & CEO - SpiNovation Labs

Alexis Moeckli

Founder at WENOVE.CH

Claude-Alain Glauser

Solution Unit Manager at Trivadis

Anja Borchhardt

Head of Experience Management at Helsana

Cristina Famano

Co-founder at ADA Strategy

Jonas Vonlanthen

Partner - Liip Digital Progress

Emilie Boillat

Business Developer at Liip AG

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Sylvie Gelinas

CEO at Noos Technologie inc.

Ed Orozco

Head of Strategy - WANDR

Kristina Pankov

Learning manager - Consultant Freelance

Emmanuelle Germond

Geek Human translator at CH-Open / PPVD / intergen

Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Kai Haley

Head of UX Methods and Process at Google

Cheri Ruane

Practice Leader for Landscape Architecture - Weston & Sampson Design Studio

Julien Guex

Managing director at FIT Fondation pour l'innovation technologique

Gael Close

Staff System Architect at Melexis

Damien Fournier

Founder- Director at deus ex digital

Kevin Richard

Senior Designer, UX Strategist

Marie Girard

Product Manager at IBM

Clemence de Robert

UX Designer

Fides Fierz

Owner at Capsica23

Steph Cruchon

CEO Design Sprint Ltd - itoday Conference Organizer

Caroline Widmer

Directrice at Pulse Incubateur HES

Jake Knapp

Creator of the Design Sprint process at Google

Thomas Link

Creative Director - Namics

Anne Donnard

Executive Creative Director at Emerson Blue

Hugo De Sousa

Managing Partner at UNSETTLED.TECH

Jaime Endick

Strategist/ Freelance

Michaël Ambass

Associé & Digital Project Manager at troisdeuxun sàrl

David Narr

Director at GENILEM

Rémi Rivas

Consulting Designer at Rivas Consulting

Anaïs Salson

Entrepreneur, Globe Trotter, Speaker - Try The New

Daniela Busse (Ph.D.)

Head of Research at eBay

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Loïc Volery

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

Jean-Philippe van den Hove

Founder at Alphabeta

Cédric Hofstetter

Product Owner Web at A. Lange & Söhne

Axel Pasqualini

Director at Apptitude SA

Olivier Petro

Owner at YOUBEQUITE

Lisa Weinsberger

Remote Design Sprint & Innovation Facilitator at Designtribe

Surya Vanka

Founder & Chief Designer at Authentic Design

Luis González

Product Designer / UX-UI - Freelancer / Startuper

Marc Gruber

Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Clio Rossier

Freelance - I use my creative mindset, my empathy and my future thinking skills to help you innovate

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie