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:

William Carbone
CEO, The Adjacent Possible
Pedro Branco
Chief Executive Officer, Virtual Angle B.V.
Andreas Elia
Andreas Elia
Project Manager - IoT Solutions, CyRIC - Cyprus Research and Innovation Center
Dennis Kibirev
CMO, Founder & CEO @ Mesh Ai, FrontierFunder
Rodrigo de Alvarenga
Rodrigo de Alvarenga
Managing Partner, HAG Ventures
Patricia Soares da Costa
CEO & Branding Consultant, Marquinista Branding
Gabriele De Canio
Transformation Officer, European Space Agency
Andrii Shekhirev
Andrii Shekhirev
CEO & Cofounder, Biocatalyst, Enzymity, Warpgate, Satoriweb
Frederic Gaillot
Frederic Gaillot
President, Montalto Capital SAS
Gleb Maltsev
Pitch Coach & Co-founder, Fundwise
Alexandre Mencik
Alexandre Mencik
CEO, Space Platform
Tony Sephton
Tony Sephton
ex-ESA, Special Projects Manager
Alireza Taravat
Senior Data Scientist / Project Manager, Deimos Space
Christophe Christiaen
Christophe Christiaen
Innovation and Impact Lead, University of Oxford
Ginny Radmall
Ginny Radmall
Director, The Ivy Way
Orfeas Voutyras
Associate & Scientific Advisor, Corallia
Laura Herrero Gonzalez
Co-Founder, The Wonder Trip
Giorgio Licciardi
Technologist, Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Miguel García-Cesto Romero
Miguel García-Cesto Romero
CEO, ASAP Operational Research