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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Sylvie Gelinas

CEO at Noos Technologie inc.

Jean-Marie Buchilly

Innovation Cell Manager at Fischer Connectors

Jake Knapp

Creator of the Design Sprint process at Google

Shaun Miller

Head of Strategy at House

Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Luis González

Product Designer / UX-UI - Freelancer / Startuper

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

Ana Paula da Silva

CEO, Digital strategist and facilitator consultant at Rethink.br

Marco D’Amico

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

Dardan Iljazi

Full Stack Developer

Alex Osterwalder

Co-founder Strategyzer

Rémi Rivas

Consulting Designer at Rivas Consulting

Loïc Volery

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

Olivier Petro

Owner at YOUBEQUITE

Yann Wermuth

Partner at Vendbridge AG

Yves Jobin

Director - Effiquency SA

Sabrina Goerlich

Founder | Strategic Designer at Designsprintstudio

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Yves Pigneur

Professor Emeritus UNIL

Yann Ringgenberg

Founder & UX designer at :ratio

Patrycja Rozmus

Design System Lead - Brainly

Eberhard Schächterle

Innovation Advisor at Eberhard Schächterle Innovationsberatung

Orlane Perey

Designer & Art Director at Serendipity Agency

Chris Hodges

Design Lead at Siemens

François de Caro

Founder & UX Designer at D-Sprint

Fides Fierz

Owner at Capsica23

Laïla von Alvensleben

Head of Culture and Collaboration at MURAL

Mariella Pastori

Innovation Consultant at MPConsulting

Betina García Nogués

Founder & UX Lead

Mike Caskey

Design Partner, Product Exploration

Bruce Hecht

CEO/CTO at VG2PLAY

Amritha Narayanan

Product Manager at Pix4D

John Elbing

Coach/Consultant/Storyteller at Standpoint

Alban Vogel

Product Designer - Cleverdist SA

Cristina Famano

Co-founder at ADA Strategy

Danella Alfaro

Marketing & Communications Manager - Knowledge Expert

Christophe Gras

Founder & CEO at Labster.io

Srini Srinivasan

President - World Design Organization WDO

Jonas Vonlanthen

Partner - Liip Digital Progress

Lisa Mo Wagner

Sr. Product Manager at Finiata

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Fran Navarro

Product Designer at Accedo

Cédric Hofstetter

Product Owner Web at A. Lange & Söhne

Cheri Ruane

Practice Leader for Landscape Architecture - Weston & Sampson Design Studio

Mathieu Menet

Innovation Manager at La Ruche tl

Caroline Widmer

Directrice at Pulse Incubateur HES

Hélène Valat

Digital project manager at Wide

Alona Nadieieva

Pega CSSA at Knowledge Expert

Surya Vanka

Founder & Chief Designer at Authentic Design