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:

Jennifer Meyer
Jennifer Meyer
Software Developer, N3xtcoder
Sylvester Kaczmarek
Chief Scientific Officer, Stealth Startup
Piotr Bucki
Owner, Piotr Bucki
Emmanuel Mondon
Founder & Senior Consultant, AdviceGEO
Floriano Bonfigli
Floriano Bonfigli
Program Director, AC75
Karin Künnapas
Co-Director, kood/Jõhvi
Matt Kuppers
Founder & CEO, Startup Manufactory
Raili Liiva
Raili Liiva
Partner, Lasting Dynamics
Tony Sephton
Tony Sephton
ex-ESA, Special Projects Manager
Laura Herrero Gonzalez
Co-Founder, The Wonder Trip
Xavier Banqué
CEO, Rokubun
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Associate, Lean Sales
Andrii Shekhirev
Andrii Shekhirev
CEO & Cofounder, Biocatalyst, Enzymity, Warpgate, Satoriweb
Dennis Kibirev
CMO, Founder & CEO @ Mesh Ai, FrontierFunder
Alfredo Magliola
Alfredo Magliola
Business Manager, Natural Crunch
Bobby Bahov
Bobby Bahov
CEO & Co-founder, Space Mining Technologies
Gaetano Volpe
Gaetano Volpe
CEO, Latitudo 40
Julia Gottfriedsen
Julia Gottfriedsen
Data Science Team Lead, OroraTech GmbH
Stavri Nikolov
Stavri Nikolov
Founding Director, Digital Spaces Living Lab