I am excited to announce that I have joined the DIANA Mentors and Experts Network as a volunteer expert. This network is a community where DIANA innovators and alumni can engage and interact with DIANA Mentors and Experts. The community currently has over 500 members and is growing. In addition to the lead mentors already assigned to innovators, DIANA experts are volunteers who are willing to provide ad-hoc guidance and mentorship to DIANA innovators and alumni upon request. The network of experts is accessible via an online mentorship platform called Mentorloop.

DIANA is an organisation within NATO with the aim of facilitating the development of emerging and disruptive dual-use technologies. Through a network of accelerator sites and test centres, DIANA aims to be a conduit between universities, industry, governments, and technology companies from across the NATO alliance. The companies that are successfully selected from a call for proposals receive funding from the NATO Innovation Fund.

In the first NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) pilot Challenge Programme in 2023 I served as Technical Evaluator (Evaluation Team Member Eva-000203), a position equivalent to G17 NATO Officer.