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:

Claudia van den Berg Morelli
Founder, Mint Labs
Stavri Nikolov
Stavri Nikolov
Founding Director, Digital Spaces Living Lab
Pedro Branco
Chief Executive Officer, Virtual Angle B.V.
Alireza Taravat
Senior Data Scientist / Project Manager, Deimos Space
Dalibor Cerny
Dalibor Cerny
Legal Mind, Sparring.io
Sylvester Kaczmarek
Chief Scientific Officer, Stealth Startup
Alexandra Garatzogianni
Head of Tech Transfer, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology
Gabriele De Canio
Transformation Officer, European Space Agency
Dimitris Matsakis
Dimitris Matsakis
Partner, P.L.A.N.
Gaetano Volpe
Gaetano Volpe
CEO, Latitudo 40
Panis Pieri
Founder, Panis.News
Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Co-Founder, The Rainmaker Tribe
Aravind Ravichandran
Founder, TerraWatch Space
Johnny Waterschoot
Owner, Aesiris CommV
Mirko Tadic
Mirko Tadic
Managing Director, Bridgeway
Andrii Shekhirev
Andrii Shekhirev
CEO & Cofounder, Biocatalyst, Enzymity, Warpgate, Satoriweb
Patricia Soares da Costa
CEO & Branding Consultant, Marquinista Branding
Moyses Moyseos
Incubation Manager, Gravity Ventures Technology Incubator
Raili Liiva
Raili Liiva
Partner, Lasting Dynamics