Atos and IOC Extend Worldwide Olympic Partnership
Paris, July nine, 2020
Atos, a world chief in digital transformation, and the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), right now announced an extension to their extensive-standing Globally Olympic Partnership via to 2024.
Atos will increase its Best partnership via to 2024, seeking to further aid the digital transformation of the Olympic Video games as the lead integrator for technological innovation and to hold fulfilling its part in securing the IT infrastructure for the Olympic Wintertime Video games Beijing 2022 and Olympic Video games Paris 2024.
Elie Girard, Atos CEO, and Thomas Bach, IOC President, at Bezons, on July nine, 2020
Atos has been an Details Technologies Spouse to the Olympic Movement since 1989, when the corporation presented solutions for the Olympic Video games Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee. Atos grew to become the Olympic Movement’s Globally Details Technologies Spouse in 2001.
IOC President Thomas Bach said: “In these unprecedented moments, the aid and confidence of our Globally Associates is now extra vital than ever. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the foreseeable future, we are pleased to continue on doing the job with Atos, our dependable manual in a period of excellent digital transformation, to supply the digital spine and essential digital platforms we rely on to operate the Video games. We are delighted to be capable to hold counting on Atos to aid the Olympic Movement and to support provide the Olympic values to billions of persons across the world.”
Atos CEO, Elie Girard, said: “We are thrilled to further increase our currently thirty-calendar year-strong journey with the IOC. We will be pursuing our dedication to the empowerment of the Olympic Video games via primary technological innovation and innovation – thoroughly connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Video games to all stakeholders. We will achieve this feat by uniting persons, business enterprise and technological innovation, and furnishing sustainable methods to the IOC, placing environmental dedication at the heart of the Olympic strategy, aligned with Atos’ strong environmental dedication in tackling the local weather alter emergency.”
As a world Spouse, Atos will continue on its aid of the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020, as well as the Olympic Wintertime Video games Beijing 2022, and the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, in which Atos’ world headquarters is positioned.
The settlement also incorporates marketing legal rights for the Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paralympic Video games via the IOC-IPC extensive-expression collaboration settlement, as well as for the Youth Olympic Video games.
Atos is at present supporting the Organising Committee for the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020 by furnishing core Olympic techniques, these as the administration of accreditations, as well as purposes that include things like athlete entries for situations, the on the net volunteer portal, the level of competition schedule, workforce administration, and the voting software for the IOC Athletes’ Fee, amongst others. This is in addition to providing all official benefits to the Video games-time web and application, and furnishing the media with biographies of athletes and other types of track record info.
At PyeongChang 2018, Atos sent more than the Cloud for the initial time the crucial IT techniques of the Olympics. This was a replicable design, which will be utilised for Tokyo 2020, supporting the IOC in utilizing sustainable methods by minimising the environmental affect as opposed to prior editions. At these following Video games, Atos will also regulate the most progressive Innovative Access Control Technique (AACS).
Jiri Kejval, IOC Advertising and marketing Fee Chair, said: “Atos gets to be the 12th Globally Olympic Spouse to indication via 2024. The extensive-expression aid of our world partners implies the Olympic Movement is capable to enjoy money stability and operational aid, which can help to conquer challenges, including the current unprecedented period. By redistributing 90% of the revenues it generates, the IOC is capable to aid sport and athletes globally, all calendar year spherical.”
Patrick Adiba, Head of Big Occasions at Atos, said: “The Olympics is all about teamwork as we function with an ecosystem of partners. We have to function with each other to achieve a widespread goal: creating the magic of the Olympic Video games take place. The Olympic Video games is a sophisticated multi-stakeholder atmosphere in which we are liable of various solutions, from consulting to integration and operations. We have advanced a ton in new techniques and technological innovation mainly because of the complexity and substantial desire atmosphere of the Olympic Video games. We are very pleased to increase our aid to the Olympic Movement, certainly bringing the Olympic Video games into the digital age.”
