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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Mariella Pastori

Innovation Consultant at MPConsulting

Anja Borchhardt

Head of Experience Management at Helsana

Başak Çevik

Consultant - StratejiCo

Ana Paula da Silva

CEO, Digital strategist and facilitator consultant at Rethink.br

Ed Orozco

Head of Strategy - WANDR

Cédric Hofstetter

Product Owner Web at A. Lange & Söhne

Hugo De Sousa

Managing Partner at UNSETTLED.TECH

Jennifer Löffler

Innovation Facilitator at itConcept srl

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Chris Hodges

Design Lead at Siemens

Fran Navarro

Product Designer at Accedo

David Narr

Director at GENILEM

Rémi Rivas

Consulting Designer at Rivas Consulting

Jameel Somji

Founder & CEO - SpiNovation Labs

Yann Ringgenberg

Founder & UX designer at :ratio

Kevin Richard

Senior Designer, UX Strategist

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

Steph Cruchon

CEO Design Sprint Ltd - itoday Conference Organizer

Srini Srinivasan

President - World Design Organization WDO

Yves Pigneur

Professor Emeritus UNIL

John Elbing

Coach/Consultant/Storyteller at Standpoint

Michael Vuilleumier

Designer - User Experience & Interface - Apptitude SA

Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Clio Rossier

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

Loïc Volery

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

Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Shaun Miller

Head of Strategy at House

Kai Haley

Head of UX Methods and Process at Google

Julien Guex

Managing director at FIT Fondation pour l'innovation technologique

Luis González

Product Designer / UX-UI - Freelancer / Startuper

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Christophe Gras

Founder & CEO at Labster.io

Jonas Vonlanthen

Partner - Liip Digital Progress

Emmanuelle Germond

Geek Human translator at CH-Open / PPVD / intergen

Simone Smyth

Design Strategist at Atomic

Arnaud Begle

Group CEO at Peter Lang

Andre Alfonso

Agile Coach - Knowledge Expert SA

Lisa Weinsberger

Remote Design Sprint & Innovation Facilitator at Designtribe

Eglé Cruchon

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

Jackie Colburn

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

Mateo Fernandez

Sr. product Manager at Rootstrap INC

Thomas Link

Creative Director - Namics

Eberhard Schächterle

Innovation Advisor at Eberhard Schächterle Innovationsberatung

Fides Fierz

Owner at Capsica23

Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Sandy Lam

Design System Lead at SoftwareAG

Diana Liu

Founder | Instigator | Fun Maker - The SIX

Olivier Petro

Owner at YOUBEQUITE