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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Betina García Nogués

Founder & UX Lead

Claude-Alain Glauser

Solution Unit Manager at Trivadis

Sylvie Gelinas

CEO at Noos Technologie inc.

Matthieu Chamorel

Founder at DYN SA I Fiduciaire

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Arnaud Begle

Group CEO at Peter Lang

Vladimir Koncar

Director of Design - Kiwi.com

Bruce Hecht

CEO/CTO at VG2PLAY

Jake Knapp

Creator of the Design Sprint process at Google

Julien Suard

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

Jean-Marie Buchilly

Innovation Cell Manager at Fischer Connectors

Hugo De Sousa

Managing Partner at UNSETTLED.TECH

Fran Navarro

Product Designer at Accedo

Yves Jobin

Director - Effiquency SA

Dardan Iljazi

Full Stack Developer

Emilie Boillat

Business Developer at Liip AG

Emmanuelle Germond

Geek Human translator at CH-Open / PPVD / intergen

Thiago Tonus

Head of Product Design - Logic Design

Ana Paula da Silva

CEO, Digital strategist and facilitator consultant at Rethink.br

Thomas Link

Creative Director - Namics

Damien Fournier

Founder- Director at deus ex digital

Cheri Ruane

Practice Leader for Landscape Architecture - Weston & Sampson Design Studio

Alexis Moeckli

Founder at WENOVE.CH

Patrycja Rozmus

Design System Lead - Brainly

Olivier Petro

Owner at YOUBEQUITE

John Elbing

Coach/Consultant/Storyteller at Standpoint

Michael Vuilleumier

Designer - User Experience & Interface - Apptitude SA

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Loïc Volery

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

Jennifer Löffler

Innovation Facilitator at itConcept srl

Rémi Rivas

Consulting Designer at Rivas Consulting

Alex Osterwalder

Co-founder Strategyzer

Sandy Lam

Design System Lead at SoftwareAG

Ed Orozco

Head of Strategy - WANDR

Daniela Busse (Ph.D.)

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Paul Van Der Linden

Founder and Owner at PaulvanderLinden-Consulting

Sabrina Goerlich

Founder | Strategic Designer at Designsprintstudio

Ramatoulaye A. Diallo

CEO of Orange Money in Sénégal, Director Sonatel cluster

Başak Çevik

Consultant - StratejiCo

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

Kai Haley

Head of UX Methods and Process at Google

Jackie Colburn

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

Surya Vanka

Founder & Chief Designer at Authentic Design

Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Marc Gruber

Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Shaun Miller

Head of Strategy at House

Martin Sandhu

Founder at Nuom

Orlane Perey

Designer & Art Director at Serendipity Agency