Atos and IOC Extend Worldwide Olympic Partnership
Paris, July nine, 2020
Atos, a world wide leader in electronic transformation, and the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), nowadays declared an extension to their extensive-standing Worldwide Olympic Partnership through to 2024.
Atos will prolong its Prime partnership through to 2024, hunting to more help the electronic transformation of the Olympic Game titles as the lead integrator for know-how and to preserve satisfying its job in securing the IT infrastructure for the Olympic Wintertime Game titles Beijing 2022 and Olympic Game titles Paris 2024.
Elie Girard, Atos CEO, and Thomas Bach, IOC President, at Bezons, on July nine, 2020
Atos has been an Info Technology Partner to the Olympic Motion considering that 1989, when the business delivered providers for the Olympic Game titles Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee. Atos turned the Olympic Movement’s Worldwide Info Technology Partner in 2001.
IOC President Thomas Bach claimed: “In these unparalleled periods, the help and self esteem of our Worldwide Partners is now a lot more essential than at any time. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the foreseeable future, we are happy to carry on operating with Atos, our reliable guide in a time period of fantastic electronic transformation, to provide the electronic spine and key electronic platforms we count on to operate the Game titles. We are delighted to be capable to preserve counting on Atos to help the Olympic Motion and to support carry the Olympic values to billions of folks throughout the globe.”
Atos CEO, Elie Girard, claimed: “We are thrilled to more prolong our previously thirty-calendar year-sturdy journey with the IOC. We will be pursuing our dedication to the empowerment of the Olympic Game titles through main know-how and innovation – thoroughly connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Game titles to all stakeholders. We will accomplish this feat by uniting folks, business enterprise and know-how, and supplying sustainable methods to the IOC, placing environmental dedication at the coronary heart of the Olympic solution, aligned with Atos’ sturdy environmental dedication in tackling the climate change emergency.”
As a world wide Partner, Atos will carry on its help of the Olympic Game titles Tokyo 2020, as properly as the Olympic Wintertime Game titles Beijing 2022, and the Olympic Game titles Paris 2024, the place Atos’ world wide headquarters is located.
The arrangement also features promoting legal rights for the Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paralympic Game titles through the IOC-IPC extensive-term collaboration arrangement, as properly as for the Youth Olympic Game titles.
Atos is at present supporting the Organising Committee for the Olympic Game titles Tokyo 2020 by supplying core Olympic devices, this kind of as the administration of accreditations, as properly as apps that include things like athlete entries for events, the on the web volunteer portal, the level of competition agenda, workforce administration, and the voting software for the IOC Athletes’ Fee, among other people. This is in addition to offering all official results to the Game titles-time web and application, and supplying the media with biographies of athletes and other forms of qualifications info.
At PyeongChang 2018, Atos shipped over the Cloud for the very first time the crucial IT devices of the Olympics. This was a replicable product, which will be applied for Tokyo 2020, supporting the IOC in applying sustainable methods by minimising the environmental effect when compared to previous editions. At these next Game titles, Atos will also manage the most innovative Advanced Access Command Program (AACS).
Jiri Kejval, IOC Marketing and advertising Fee Chair, claimed: “Atos becomes the twelveth Worldwide Olympic Partner to indicator through 2024. The extensive-term help of our world wide associates suggests the Olympic Motion is capable to delight in monetary security and operational help, which will help to conquer troubles, like the existing unparalleled time period. By redistributing 90{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} of the revenues it generates, the IOC is capable to help activity and athletes globally, all calendar year round.”
Patrick Adiba, Head of Significant Occasions at Atos, claimed: “The Olympics is all about teamwork as we function with an ecosystem of associates. We have to function together to realize a popular purpose: making the magic of the Olympic Game titles transpire. The Olympic Game titles is a complex multi-stakeholder atmosphere the place we are accountable of many providers, from consulting to integration and operations. We have evolved a good deal in new methods and know-how due to the fact of the complexity and large demand from customers atmosphere of the Olympic Game titles. We are happy to prolong our help to the Olympic Motion, certainly bringing the Olympic Game titles into the electronic age.”
