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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Founder & CEO at Labster.io

Clemence de Robert

UX Designer

John Elbing

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Michaël Ambass

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Mateo Fernandez

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Kai Haley

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Amritha Narayanan

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Caroline Widmer

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Jennifer Löffler

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Surya Vanka

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Sylvie Gelinas

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François de Caro

Founder & UX Designer at D-Sprint

Sarah fleury

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Julien Suard

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

Yann Ringgenberg

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Bruce Hecht

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Jake Knapp

Creator of the Design Sprint process at Google

Jameel Somji

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Srini Srinivasan

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Daniela Busse (Ph.D.)

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CEO at Limoo

Yann Wermuth

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Martin Sandhu

Founder at Nuom

Alexander Sattler

Transformation Consultant - Sattler Consulting

Cristina Famano

Co-founder at ADA Strategy

Alban Vogel

Product Designer - Cleverdist SA

Shaun Miller

Head of Strategy at House

Jean-Marie Buchilly

Innovation Cell Manager at Fischer Connectors

Hélène Valat

Digital project manager at Wide

Mariella Pastori

Innovation Consultant at MPConsulting

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Alona Nadieieva

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Consulting Designer at Rivas Consulting

Jackie Colburn

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Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Marie Girard

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Katie Swindler

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