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:

Panis Pieri
Founder, Panis.News
Orfeas Voutyras
Associate & Scientific Advisor, Corallia
Andreas Elia
Andreas Elia
Project Manager - IoT Solutions, CyRIC - Cyprus Research and Innovation Center
Frederic Gaillot
Frederic Gaillot
President, Montalto Capital SAS
Matthieu Lys
Head of Innovation Management, Airbus Defence and Space
Jasmina Ristic
Jasmina Ristic
Managing Director, Horizer
Alexandre Mencik
Alexandre Mencik
CEO, Space Platform
Dalibor Cerny
Dalibor Cerny
Legal Mind, Sparring.io
Dennis Kibirev
CMO, Founder & CEO @ Mesh Ai, FrontierFunder
Alfredo Magliola
Alfredo Magliola
Business Manager, Natural Crunch
Mari Carmen Ampiée Vigil
CEO, EE Estrategias para Artistas
Benedikt Seitz
Benedikt Seitz
Founder, Seitz Ventures
Carlos Bello Marcos
Carlos Bello Marcos
Innovation and Business Development Director, INNOVA4EU
Aravind Ravichandran
Founder, TerraWatch Space
Giampiero Bonfiglio
Giampiero Bonfiglio
Head Of Business Continuity Management Office, Mediobanca Group
MD Bayzidul Islam
MD Bayzidul Islam
PHD Candidate, TU Darmstadt
Pedro Branco
Chief Executive Officer, Virtual Angle B.V.
Piotr Bucki
Owner, Piotr Bucki
Raili Liiva
Raili Liiva
Partner, Lasting Dynamics
Désiré Nzengou
Consultant, EUSPA