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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Alexis Moeckli

Founder at WENOVE.CH

Alain Priser

Lead Product Designer and Manager at Labster.io

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Axel Pasqualini

Director at Apptitude SA

Ed Orozco

Head of Strategy - WANDR

Thomas Link

Creative Director - Namics

Jen Jeng

Founder and business strategist at Spica Strategy

Yves Zieba

Director - AgileNetup

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Marco D’Amico

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

Olivier Petro

Owner at YOUBEQUITE

Fides Fierz

Owner at Capsica23

Sabrina Goerlich

Founder | Strategic Designer at Designsprintstudio

Matthieu Chamorel

Founder at DYN SA I Fiduciaire

Alexander Sattler

Transformation Consultant - Sattler Consulting

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Sasa Spasic

Business Design and Innovation

Emmanuelle Germond

Geek Human translator at CH-Open / PPVD / intergen

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Ramatoulaye A. Diallo

CEO of Orange Money in Sénégal, Director Sonatel cluster

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Steph Cruchon

CEO Design Sprint Ltd - itoday Conference Organizer

Alona Nadieieva

Pega CSSA at Knowledge Expert

David Narr

Director at GENILEM

Anaïs Salson

Entrepreneur, Globe Trotter, Speaker - Try The New

Arnaud Begle

Group CEO at Peter Lang

Michael Vuilleumier

Designer - User Experience & Interface - Apptitude SA

Benoît Dubouloz

COO at Knowledge Expert

Surya Vanka

Founder & Chief Designer at Authentic Design

Claude-Alain Glauser

Solution Unit Manager at Trivadis

Mikhaél Minisini

Director at Apptitude SA

Luis González

Product Designer / UX-UI - Freelancer / Startuper

Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Jean-Sébastien Daigle

Facilitator & Designer at JSdaigle

Daniel Herrera

Product Design Engineer & Innovation Strategist at Dees Studio

Paul Van Der Linden

Founder and Owner at PaulvanderLinden-Consulting

Ana Paula da Silva

CEO, Digital strategist and facilitator consultant at Rethink.br

Simone Smyth

Design Strategist at Atomic

Başak Çevik

Consultant - StratejiCo

Cheri Ruane

Practice Leader for Landscape Architecture - Weston & Sampson Design Studio

Mateo Fernandez

Sr. product Manager at Rootstrap INC

Eberhard Schächterle

Innovation Advisor at Eberhard Schächterle Innovationsberatung

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Dardan Iljazi

Full Stack Developer

Loraine Kiely

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

Kai Haley

Head of UX Methods and Process at Google

Yann Ringgenberg

Founder & UX designer at :ratio

John Elbing

Coach/Consultant/Storyteller at Standpoint