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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Julien Guex

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Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Steph Cruchon

CEO Design Sprint Ltd - itoday Conference Organizer

Alain Priser

Lead Product Designer and Manager at Labster.io

Mariella Pastori

Innovation Consultant at MPConsulting

Jennifer Löffler

Innovation Facilitator at itConcept srl

Axel Pasqualini

Director at Apptitude SA

Sandy Lam

Design System Lead at SoftwareAG

Alona Nadieieva

Pega CSSA at Knowledge Expert

Thomas Link

Creative Director - Namics

Patrycja Rozmus

Design System Lead - Brainly

Gael Close

Staff System Architect at Melexis

Sabrina Goerlich

Founder | Strategic Designer at Designsprintstudio

Claude-Alain Glauser

Solution Unit Manager at Trivadis

Christophe Gras

Founder & CEO at Labster.io

Marie Girard

Product Manager at IBM

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Julien Suard

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

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

Jameel Somji

Founder & CEO - SpiNovation Labs

Mike Caskey

Design Partner, Product Exploration

Anaïs Salson

Entrepreneur, Globe Trotter, Speaker - Try The New

Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Jean-Marie Buchilly

Innovation Cell Manager at Fischer Connectors

Cédric Hofstetter

Product Owner Web at A. Lange & Söhne

Alexander Sattler

Transformation Consultant - Sattler Consulting

Jake Knapp

Creator of the Design Sprint process at Google

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Laïla von Alvensleben

Head of Culture and Collaboration at MURAL

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Jackie Colburn

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

Alexis Moeckli

Founder at WENOVE.CH

Eglé Cruchon

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

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

Loraine Kiely

Problem solver specialising in Service Design, Transformation, Product and Change at Rainmaker Solutions

Jaime Endick

Strategist/ Freelance

Michael Vuilleumier

Designer - User Experience & Interface - Apptitude SA

Damien Fournier

Founder- Director at deus ex digital

Matthieu Chamorel

Founder at DYN SA I Fiduciaire

Yann Ringgenberg

Founder & UX designer at :ratio

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Andre Alfonso

Agile Coach - Knowledge Expert SA

Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Diana Liu

Founder | Instigator | Fun Maker - The SIX

Simone Smyth

Design Strategist at Atomic

Paul Van Der Linden

Founder and Owner at PaulvanderLinden-Consulting

Loïc Volery

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

Yves Pigneur

Professor Emeritus UNIL