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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Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Caroline Widmer

Directrice at Pulse Incubateur HES

Sylvie Gelinas

CEO at Noos Technologie inc.

Jean-Sébastien Daigle

Facilitator & Designer at JSdaigle

Orlane Perey

Designer & Art Director at Serendipity Agency

Alain Priser

Lead Product Designer and Manager at Labster.io

Amritha Narayanan

Product Manager at Pix4D

Alban Vogel

Product Designer - Cleverdist SA

Kristina Pankov

Learning manager - Consultant Freelance

Emilie Boillat

Business Developer at Liip AG

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Julien Guex

Managing director at FIT Fondation pour l'innovation technologique

Danella Alfaro

Marketing & Communications Manager - Knowledge Expert

Hélène Valat

Digital project manager at Wide

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Başak Çevik

Consultant - StratejiCo

Emmanuelle Germond

Geek Human translator at CH-Open / PPVD / intergen

Claude-Alain Glauser

Solution Unit Manager at Trivadis

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Prescott Paulin

Managing Director - Iquro Development Group, LLC

Bruce Hecht

CEO/CTO at VG2PLAY

Paul Van Der Linden

Founder and Owner at PaulvanderLinden-Consulting

Jonas Vonlanthen

Partner - Liip Digital Progress

Srini Srinivasan

President - World Design Organization WDO

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Jennifer Löffler

Innovation Facilitator at itConcept srl

Daniel Herrera

Product Design Engineer & Innovation Strategist at Dees Studio

Jake Knapp

Creator of the Design Sprint process at Google

Mathieu Menet

Innovation Manager at La Ruche tl

Marc Gruber

Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Clemence de Robert

UX Designer

Sabrina Goerlich

Founder | Strategic Designer at Designsprintstudio

Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Ed Orozco

Head of Strategy - WANDR

Hugo De Sousa

Managing Partner at UNSETTLED.TECH

Yves Zieba

Director - AgileNetup

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

David Narr

Director at GENILEM

Daniela Busse (Ph.D.)

Head of Research at eBay

Laïla von Alvensleben

Head of Culture and Collaboration at MURAL

Mikhaél Minisini

Director at Apptitude SA

Mateo Fernandez

Sr. product Manager at Rootstrap INC

Chris Hodges

Design Lead at Siemens

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Lisa Weinsberger

Remote Design Sprint & Innovation Facilitator at Designtribe

Kevin Richard

Senior Designer, UX Strategist

Loraine Kiely

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

François de Caro

Founder & UX Designer at D-Sprint

Steph Cruchon

CEO Design Sprint Ltd - itoday Conference Organizer

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot