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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Kristina Pankov

Learning manager - Consultant Freelance

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Marco D’Amico

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

Julien Guex

Managing director at FIT Fondation pour l'innovation technologique

Srini Srinivasan

President - World Design Organization WDO

Sandy Lam

Design System Lead at SoftwareAG

Orlane Perey

Designer & Art Director at Serendipity Agency

Arnaud Begle

Group CEO at Peter Lang

Ana Paula da Silva

CEO, Digital strategist and facilitator consultant at Rethink.br

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Mathieu Menet

Innovation Manager at La Ruche tl

Hugo De Sousa

Managing Partner at UNSETTLED.TECH

Diana Liu

Founder | Instigator | Fun Maker - The SIX

Jean-Marie Buchilly

Innovation Cell Manager at Fischer Connectors

Yves Jobin

Director - Effiquency SA

Shaun Miller

Head of Strategy at House

Julien Suard

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

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

Chris Hodges

Design Lead at Siemens

Simone Smyth

Design Strategist at Atomic

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Paul Van Der Linden

Founder and Owner at PaulvanderLinden-Consulting

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Vladimir Koncar

Director of Design - Kiwi.com

Jen Jeng

Founder and business strategist at Spica Strategy

Kevin Richard

Senior Designer, UX Strategist

Hélène Valat

Digital project manager at Wide

Olivier Petro

Owner at YOUBEQUITE

Luis González

Product Designer / UX-UI - Freelancer / Startuper

Laïla von Alvensleben

Head of Culture and Collaboration at MURAL

Caroline Pratte

Founder at Conversations.coach

Lisa Mo Wagner

Sr. Product Manager at Finiata

Damien Fournier

Founder- Director at deus ex digital

Alexander Sattler

Transformation Consultant - Sattler Consulting

Benoît Dubouloz

COO at Knowledge Expert

Gael Close

Staff System Architect at Melexis

Claude-Alain Glauser

Solution Unit Manager at Trivadis

Emmanuelle Germond

Geek Human translator at CH-Open / PPVD / intergen

Jean-Philippe van den Hove

Founder at Alphabeta

Yves Zieba

Director - AgileNetup

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Andre Alfonso

Agile Coach - Knowledge Expert SA

Mateo Fernandez

Sr. product Manager at Rootstrap INC

Sasa Spasic

Business Design and Innovation

Jameel Somji

Founder & CEO - SpiNovation Labs

Thomas Link

Creative Director - Namics

Loraine Kiely

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

Fran Navarro

Product Designer at Accedo

Yann Ringgenberg

Founder & UX designer at :ratio

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation