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:

Orfeas Voutyras
Associate & Scientific Advisor, Corallia
Raili Liiva
Raili Liiva
Partner, Lasting Dynamics
Giorgio Licciardi
Technologist, Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Claudia van den Berg Morelli
Founder, Mint Labs
Tony Sephton
Tony Sephton
ex-ESA, Special Projects Manager
Laura Herrero Gonzalez
Co-Founder, The Wonder Trip
Andreas Elia
Andreas Elia
Project Manager - IoT Solutions, CyRIC - Cyprus Research and Innovation Center
Dalibor Cerny
Dalibor Cerny
Legal Mind, Sparring.io
Matt Kuppers
Founder & CEO, Startup Manufactory
Miquel Garcia Fernandez
Miquel Garcia Fernandez
CTO, Rokubun
Uzoma Agba
Business Mentor, Seedstars
Alireza Taravat
Senior Data Scientist / Project Manager, Deimos Space
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Associate, Lean Sales
Xavier Banqué
CEO, Rokubun
Dimitris Matsakis
Dimitris Matsakis
Partner, P.L.A.N.
Mari Carmen Ampiée Vigil
CEO, EE Estrategias para Artistas
Kevin Mascarenhas
Kevin Mascarenhas
Principal Coach & Founder, Natural Flow Consultancy
Alexandra Garatzogianni
Head of Tech Transfer, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology