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:

Wilhelm Lappe
Wilhelm Lappe
Founder, theBizTour
Mirko Tadic
Mirko Tadic
Managing Director, Bridgeway
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Associate, Lean Sales
Alexandra Garatzogianni
Head of Tech Transfer, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology
Miguel García-Cesto Romero
Miguel García-Cesto Romero
CEO, ASAP Operational Research
Nisrine Hammout
Data Scientist, Mavim
Miquel Garcia Fernandez
Miquel Garcia Fernandez
CTO, Rokubun
Orfeas Voutyras
Associate & Scientific Advisor, Corallia
Matt Kuppers
Founder & CEO, Startup Manufactory
Andreas Elia
Andreas Elia
Project Manager - IoT Solutions, CyRIC - Cyprus Research and Innovation Center
Javier Bello
Javier Bello
Director Of Marketing & Product Management, Innova4EU
Claudia van den Berg Morelli
Founder, Mint Labs
Rodrigo de Alvarenga
Rodrigo de Alvarenga
Managing Partner, HAG Ventures
Julia Gottfriedsen
Julia Gottfriedsen
Data Science Team Lead, OroraTech GmbH
Giampiero Bonfiglio
Giampiero Bonfiglio
Head Of Business Continuity Management Office, Mediobanca Group
Sylvester Kaczmarek
Chief Scientific Officer, Stealth Startup
Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Co-Founder, The Rainmaker Tribe
Andrii Shekhirev
Andrii Shekhirev
CEO & Cofounder, Biocatalyst, Enzymity, Warpgate, Satoriweb