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:

Nicola Musgrove
Entrepreneurial Programmes Director, Anchored
Andrii Shekhirev
Andrii Shekhirev
CEO & Cofounder, Biocatalyst, Enzymity, Warpgate, Satoriweb
Giorgio Licciardi
Technologist, Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Laura Herrero Gonzalez
Co-Founder, The Wonder Trip
Xavier Banqué
CEO, Rokubun
Désiré Nzengou
Consultant, EUSPA
Floriano Bonfigli
Floriano Bonfigli
Program Director, AC75
Christophe Christiaen
Christophe Christiaen
Innovation and Impact Lead, University of Oxford
Kevin Mascarenhas
Kevin Mascarenhas
Principal Coach & Founder, Natural Flow Consultancy
Gleb Maltsev
Pitch Coach & Co-founder, Fundwise
Emmanuel Mondon
Founder & Senior Consultant, AdviceGEO
Miguel García-Cesto Romero
Miguel García-Cesto Romero
CEO, ASAP Operational Research
Nisrine Hammout
Data Scientist, Mavim
Alireza Taravat
Senior Data Scientist / Project Manager, Deimos Space
Manuel Cuba
Manuel Cuba
Managing Director, Helix Space
Pedro Branco
Chief Executive Officer, Virtual Angle B.V.
Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Co-Founder, The Rainmaker Tribe
Andrea Bauer
Founder & Strategist, BEAM Innovation Studio
Aravind Ravichandran
Founder, TerraWatch Space
Carlos Bello Marcos
Carlos Bello Marcos
Innovation and Business Development Director, INNOVA4EU