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:

Rodrigo de Alvarenga
Rodrigo de Alvarenga
Managing Partner, HAG Ventures
Mirko Tadic
Mirko Tadic
Managing Director, Bridgeway
Dennis Kibirev
CMO, Founder & CEO @ Mesh Ai, FrontierFunder
Miquel Garcia Fernandez
Miquel Garcia Fernandez
CTO, Rokubun
Matt Kuppers
Founder & CEO, Startup Manufactory
Gabriele De Canio
Transformation Officer, European Space Agency
Nisrine Hammout
Data Scientist, Mavim
Andreas Elia
Andreas Elia
Project Manager - IoT Solutions, CyRIC - Cyprus Research and Innovation Center
Karin Künnapas
Co-Director, kood/Jõhvi
Sylvester Kaczmarek
Chief Scientific Officer, Stealth Startup
Patricia Soares da Costa
CEO & Branding Consultant, Marquinista Branding
Alex Godlewski
Alex Godlewski
Investment Senior Associate, NewSpace Capital
Miguel García-Cesto Romero
Miguel García-Cesto Romero
CEO, ASAP Operational Research
Ginny Radmall
Ginny Radmall
Director, The Ivy Way
Alexandra Garatzogianni
Head of Tech Transfer, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology
Alireza Taravat
Senior Data Scientist / Project Manager, Deimos Space
Stavri Nikolov
Stavri Nikolov
Founding Director, Digital Spaces Living Lab
Bobby Bahov
Bobby Bahov
CEO & Co-founder, Space Mining Technologies
Laura Herrero Gonzalez
Co-Founder, The Wonder Trip
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Associate, Lean Sales