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
Alireza Taravat
Senior Data Scientist / Project Manager, Deimos Space
Benedikt Seitz
Benedikt Seitz
Founder, Seitz Ventures
Bobby Bahov
Bobby Bahov
CEO & Co-founder, Space Mining Technologies
Marco Poliafico
Marco Poliafico
Modeller Associate, GE Renewables
Dennis Kibirev
CMO, Founder & CEO @ Mesh Ai, FrontierFunder
Miquel Garcia Fernandez
Miquel Garcia Fernandez
CTO, Rokubun
Matt Kuppers
Founder & CEO, Startup Manufactory
Panis Pieri
Founder, Panis.News
Karlis Skuja
CEO, WindHackers
William Carbone
CEO, The Adjacent Possible
Nicola Musgrove
Entrepreneurial Programmes Director, Anchored
Nisrine Hammout
Data Scientist, Mavim
Alexandra Garatzogianni
Head of Tech Transfer, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology
Wilhelm Lappe
Wilhelm Lappe
Founder, theBizTour
Floriano Bonfigli
Floriano Bonfigli
Program Director, AC75
Tony Sephton
Tony Sephton
ex-ESA, Special Projects Manager
Mirko Tadic
Mirko Tadic
Managing Director, Bridgeway
Jolien Van Puyvelde
Jolien Van Puyvelde
Founder, Design Myths