Olaf Eckart

Bio

Olaf Eckart is responsible for R&D Cooperations and Industry Customers at BMW. He is one of the founding members of the Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) Core Team at BMW. Moreover he also leads a global Initiative within the 5G-Automotive Association (5GAA) to integrate NTN into Terrestrial Networks since June 2022. He has received a degree of economics from the Technical University in Dresden in 1997. In 1999 he started his career at BMW, specializing first in the development of new mobility services. Later on he became an expert in building and operating successfully cooperations between BMW and other OEM.