Discover the mentoring
programme

Do you have expertise worth sharing? Each edition of the CASSINI Hackathons awards 3 overall winners who will have access to 100 hours of expert mentoring. Each team will work with several experts whose backgrounds range from technical topics like Earth Observation and GNSS through to business development, marketing, design and more. We’d love for you to become part of our mentoring programme so you can share your skills and knowledge and help shape the next generation of (space) entrepreneurs. Apply now!

Meet our mentors

Meet a selection of our expert mentors supporting the winning teams:

Panis Pieri
Founder, Panis.News
Mari Carmen Ampiée Vigil
CEO, EE Estrategias para Artistas
Mirko Tadic
Mirko Tadic
Managing Director, Bridgeway
Claudia van den Berg Morelli
Founder, Mint Labs
Nisrine Hammout
Data Scientist, Mavim
Moyses Moyseos
Incubation Manager, Gravity Ventures Technology Incubator
Dimitris Matsakis
Dimitris Matsakis
Partner, P.L.A.N.
Orfeas Voutyras
Associate & Scientific Advisor, Corallia
Julia Gottfriedsen
Julia Gottfriedsen
Data Science Team Lead, OroraTech GmbH
Matt Kuppers
Founder & CEO, Startup Manufactory
Gabriele De Canio
Transformation Officer, European Space Agency
Floriano Bonfigli
Floriano Bonfigli
Program Director, AC75
Andrii Shekhirev
Andrii Shekhirev
CEO & Cofounder, Biocatalyst, Enzymity, Warpgate, Satoriweb
Giorgio Licciardi
Technologist, Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Dennis Kibirev
CMO, Founder & CEO @ Mesh Ai, FrontierFunder
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Associate, Lean Sales
Kevin Mascarenhas
Kevin Mascarenhas
Principal Coach & Founder, Natural Flow Consultancy
Silvia Pepino
Silvia Pepino
Founder and CEO, GlobeEye
Tony Sephton
Tony Sephton
ex-ESA, Special Projects Manager