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:

Giampiero Bonfiglio
Giampiero Bonfiglio
Head Of Business Continuity Management Office, Mediobanca Group
Alireza Taravat
Senior Data Scientist / Project Manager, Deimos Space
Emmanuel Mondon
Founder & Senior Consultant, AdviceGEO
Angelos Noulas
Angelos Noulas
Managing Director, Dialog Consulting
Piotr Bucki
Owner, Piotr Bucki
Jolien Van Puyvelde
Jolien Van Puyvelde
Founder, Design Myths
Matthieu Lys
Head of Innovation Management, Airbus Defence and Space
Xavier Banqué
CEO, Rokubun
Christophe Christiaen
Christophe Christiaen
Innovation and Impact Lead, University of Oxford
Moyses Moyseos
Incubation Manager, Gravity Ventures Technology Incubator
Karlis Skuja
CEO, WindHackers
Désiré Nzengou
Consultant, EUSPA
William Carbone
CEO, The Adjacent Possible
Gabriele De Canio
Transformation Officer, European Space Agency
Tony Sephton
Tony Sephton
ex-ESA, Special Projects Manager
Floriano Bonfigli
Floriano Bonfigli
Program Director, AC75
Andreas Elia
Andreas Elia
Project Manager - IoT Solutions, CyRIC - Cyprus Research and Innovation Center
Andrea Bauer
Founder & Strategist, BEAM Innovation Studio
Marco Poliafico
Marco Poliafico
Modeller Associate, GE Renewables