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:

Claudia van den Berg Morelli
Founder, Mint Labs
Emmanuel Mondon
Founder & Senior Consultant, AdviceGEO
Manuel Cuba
Manuel Cuba
Managing Director, Helix Space
Pedro Branco
Chief Executive Officer, Virtual Angle B.V.
Aravind Ravichandran
Founder, TerraWatch Space
Matthieu Lys
Head of Innovation Management, Airbus Defence and Space
Javier Bello
Javier Bello
Director Of Marketing & Product Management, Innova4EU
Frederic Gaillot
Frederic Gaillot
President, Montalto Capital SAS
Uzoma Agba
Business Mentor, Seedstars
Giorgio Licciardi
Technologist, Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Christophe Christiaen
Christophe Christiaen
Innovation and Impact Lead, University of Oxford
Karin Künnapas
Co-Director, kood/Jõhvi
Dennis Kibirev
CMO, Founder & CEO @ Mesh Ai, FrontierFunder
Jan Lukačevič
Jan Lukačevič
Research & Innovation Strategy Developer, Prague Innovation Institute
Dr. Johanna Braun
Dr. Johanna Braun
Owner, Innovation, Venture & Sustainability Advisory
Angelos Noulas
Angelos Noulas
Managing Director, Dialog Consulting
Alexandra Garatzogianni
Head of Tech Transfer, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology
Benedikt Seitz
Benedikt Seitz
Founder, Seitz Ventures