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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Jean-Marie Buchilly

Innovation Cell Manager at Fischer Connectors

Clio Rossier

Freelance - I use my creative mindset, my empathy and my future thinking skills to help you innovate

Eglé Cruchon

itoday Conference Organizer / Office & Event Manager at Design Sprint Ltd

Vladimir Koncar

Director of Design - Kiwi.com

Mikhaél Minisini

Director at Apptitude SA

Amritha Narayanan

Product Manager at Pix4D

Jennifer Löffler

Innovation Facilitator at itConcept srl

Thomas Link

Creative Director - Namics

Daniela Busse (Ph.D.)

Head of Research at eBay

François de Caro

Founder & UX Designer at D-Sprint

Hélène Valat

Digital project manager at Wide

Lisa Weinsberger

Remote Design Sprint & Innovation Facilitator at Designtribe

Anaïs Salson

Entrepreneur, Globe Trotter, Speaker - Try The New

Jonas Vonlanthen

Partner - Liip Digital Progress

Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Christophe Gras

Founder & CEO at Labster.io

Ed Orozco

Head of Strategy - WANDR

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Benoît Dubouloz

COO at Knowledge Expert

Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Emilie Boillat

Business Developer at Liip AG

Michaël Ambass

Associé & Digital Project Manager at troisdeuxun sàrl

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Jaime Endick

Strategist/ Freelance

Claude-Alain Glauser

Solution Unit Manager at Trivadis

Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Marco D’Amico

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

Cheri Ruane

Practice Leader for Landscape Architecture - Weston & Sampson Design Studio

Cristina Famano

Co-founder at ADA Strategy

Srini Srinivasan

President - World Design Organization WDO

Mike Caskey

Design Partner, Product Exploration

Fides Fierz

Owner at Capsica23

Daniel Herrera

Product Design Engineer & Innovation Strategist at Dees Studio

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Sylvie Gelinas

CEO at Noos Technologie inc.

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Fran Navarro

Product Designer at Accedo

Alex Osterwalder

Co-founder Strategyzer

Caroline Widmer

Directrice at Pulse Incubateur HES

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Başak Çevik

Consultant - StratejiCo

Chris Hodges

Design Lead at Siemens

Clemence de Robert

UX Designer

Julien Suard

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

Loïc Volery

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

Bruce Hecht

CEO/CTO at VG2PLAY

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Ramatoulaye A. Diallo

CEO of Orange Money in Sénégal, Director Sonatel cluster

Alain Priser

Lead Product Designer and Manager at Labster.io