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:

Désiré Nzengou
Consultant, EUSPA
Benedikt Seitz
Benedikt Seitz
Founder, Seitz Ventures
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Associate, Lean Sales
Moyses Moyseos
Incubation Manager, Gravity Ventures Technology Incubator
Dennis Kibirev
CMO, Founder & CEO @ Mesh Ai, FrontierFunder
Panis Pieri
Founder, Panis.News
Emmanuel Mondon
Founder & Senior Consultant, AdviceGEO
MD Bayzidul Islam
MD Bayzidul Islam
PHD Candidate, TU Darmstadt
Nisrine Hammout
Data Scientist, Mavim
Orfeas Voutyras
Associate & Scientific Advisor, Corallia
Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Co-Founder, The Rainmaker Tribe
Clyde Hutchinson
Clyde Hutchinson
Partner, Journey Partners
Tony Sephton
Tony Sephton
ex-ESA, Special Projects Manager
Wilhelm Lappe
Wilhelm Lappe
Founder, theBizTour
Laura Herrero Gonzalez
Co-Founder, The Wonder Trip
Giorgio Licciardi
Technologist, Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Andrii Shekhirev
Andrii Shekhirev
CEO & Cofounder, Biocatalyst, Enzymity, Warpgate, Satoriweb
Gaetano Volpe
Gaetano Volpe
CEO, Latitudo 40
Miguel García-Cesto Romero
Miguel García-Cesto Romero
CEO, ASAP Operational Research
Angelos Noulas
Angelos Noulas
Managing Director, Dialog Consulting