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:

Matthieu Lys
Head of Innovation Management, Airbus Defence and Space
Raili Liiva
Raili Liiva
Partner, Lasting Dynamics
Panis Pieri
Founder, Panis.News
Christophe Christiaen
Christophe Christiaen
Innovation and Impact Lead, University of Oxford
Andrii Shekhirev
Andrii Shekhirev
CEO & Cofounder, Biocatalyst, Enzymity, Warpgate, Satoriweb
Alexandra Garatzogianni
Head of Tech Transfer, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology
Giorgio Licciardi
Technologist, Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Pedro Branco
Chief Executive Officer, Virtual Angle B.V.
Xavier Banqué
CEO, Rokubun
William Carbone
CEO, The Adjacent Possible
Nisrine Hammout
Data Scientist, Mavim
Uzoma Agba
Business Mentor, Seedstars
Désiré Nzengou
Consultant, EUSPA
Moyses Moyseos
Incubation Manager, Gravity Ventures Technology Incubator
Silvia Pepino
Silvia Pepino
Founder and CEO, GlobeEye
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Miguel Ángel López Trujillo
Associate, Lean Sales
Alireza Taravat
Senior Data Scientist / Project Manager, Deimos Space
Alfredo Magliola
Alfredo Magliola
Business Manager, Natural Crunch
Karlis Skuja
CEO, WindHackers
Alex Godlewski
Alex Godlewski
Investment Senior Associate, NewSpace Capital