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:

Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Co-Founder, The Rainmaker Tribe
Sylvester Kaczmarek
Chief Scientific Officer, Stealth Startup
Andreas Elia
Andreas Elia
Project Manager - IoT Solutions, CyRIC - Cyprus Research and Innovation Center
Gleb Maltsev
Pitch Coach & Co-founder, Fundwise
Ginny Radmall
Ginny Radmall
Director, The Ivy Way
Claudia van den Berg Morelli
Founder, Mint Labs
Wilhelm Lappe
Wilhelm Lappe
Founder, theBizTour
Emmanuel Mondon
Founder & Senior Consultant, AdviceGEO
Dennis Kibirev
CMO, Founder & CEO @ Mesh Ai, FrontierFunder
Marco Poliafico
Marco Poliafico
Modeller Associate, GE Renewables
Alexandra Garatzogianni
Head of Tech Transfer, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology
Karin Künnapas
Co-Director, kood/Jõhvi
Alireza Taravat
Senior Data Scientist / Project Manager, Deimos Space
Benedikt Seitz
Benedikt Seitz
Founder, Seitz Ventures
Miquel Garcia Fernandez
Miquel Garcia Fernandez
CTO, Rokubun
Tony Sephton
Tony Sephton
ex-ESA, Special Projects Manager
Carlos Bello Marcos
Carlos Bello Marcos
Innovation and Business Development Director, INNOVA4EU
Carles Debart
Carles Debart
Business Development Manager, Geoville
Frederic Gaillot
Frederic Gaillot
President, Montalto Capital SAS