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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Orlane Perey

Designer & Art Director at Serendipity Agency

Sandy Lam

Design System Lead at SoftwareAG

Caroline Pratte

Founder at Conversations.coach

Alexander Sattler

Transformation Consultant - Sattler Consulting

Julien Suard

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

David Narr

Director at GENILEM

Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Alban Vogel

Product Designer - Cleverdist SA

Axel Pasqualini

Director at Apptitude SA

Benoît Dubouloz

COO at Knowledge Expert

Fides Fierz

Owner at Capsica23

Ramatoulaye A. Diallo

CEO of Orange Money in Sénégal, Director Sonatel cluster

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

Martin Sandhu

Founder at Nuom

Shaun Miller

Head of Strategy at House

Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Marc Gruber

Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Lisa Weinsberger

Remote Design Sprint & Innovation Facilitator at Designtribe

Andre Alfonso

Agile Coach - Knowledge Expert SA

Mathieu Menet

Innovation Manager at La Ruche tl

Mariella Pastori

Innovation Consultant at MPConsulting

Yves Jobin

Director - Effiquency SA

Julien Guex

Managing director at FIT Fondation pour l'innovation technologique

Anaïs Salson

Entrepreneur, Globe Trotter, Speaker - Try The New

Jean-Marie Buchilly

Innovation Cell Manager at Fischer Connectors

Kai Haley

Head of UX Methods and Process at Google

Christophe Gras

Founder & CEO at Labster.io

Cédric Hofstetter

Product Owner Web at A. Lange & Söhne

Prescott Paulin

Managing Director - Iquro Development Group, LLC

Anja Borchhardt

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Surya Vanka

Founder & Chief Designer at Authentic Design

Ed Orozco

Head of Strategy - WANDR

Sasa Spasic

Business Design and Innovation

Yann Ringgenberg

Founder & UX designer at :ratio

Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Alona Nadieieva

Pega CSSA at Knowledge Expert

Jaime Endick

Strategist/ Freelance

Arnaud Begle

Group CEO at Peter Lang

Thiago Tonus

Head of Product Design - Logic Design

John Elbing

Coach/Consultant/Storyteller at Standpoint

Gael Nini

Head of Project Managemet Office at Electro Medical Systems

Katie Swindler

User Experience Strategist - Allstate

Diana Liu

Founder | Instigator | Fun Maker - The SIX

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Gael Close

Staff System Architect at Melexis

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Srini Srinivasan

President - World Design Organization WDO