Paris, July 9, 2020
Atos, a world leader in electronic transformation, and the Global Olympic Committee (IOC), currently declared an extension to their very long-standing Throughout the world Olympic Partnership through to 2024.
Atos will extend its Best partnership through to 2024, looking to even further help the electronic transformation of the Olympic Video games as the direct integrator for engineering and to preserve satisfying its job in securing the IT infrastructure for the Olympic Winter Video games Beijing 2022 and Olympic Video games Paris 2024.
Elie Girard, Atos CEO, and Thomas Bach, IOC President, at Bezons, on July 9, 2020
Atos has been an Information and facts Know-how Husband or wife to the Olympic Motion due to the fact 1989, when the firm furnished services for the Olympic Video games Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee. Atos became the Olympic Movement’s Throughout the world Information and facts Know-how Husband or wife in 2001.
IOC President Thomas Bach stated: “In these unprecedented occasions, the help and self-assurance of our Throughout the world Companions is now additional vital than ever. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the potential, we are delighted to go on doing work with Atos, our trustworthy guide in a interval of fantastic electronic transformation, to supply the electronic spine and essential electronic platforms we depend on to run the Video games. We are delighted to be capable to preserve counting on Atos to help the Olympic Motion and to assist provide the Olympic values to billions of people across the world.”
Atos CEO, Elie Girard, stated: “We are thrilled to even further extend our now 30-calendar year-powerful journey with the IOC. We will be pursuing our commitment to the empowerment of the Olympic Video games through top engineering and innovation – entirely connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Video games to all stakeholders. We will achieve this feat by uniting people, business enterprise and engineering, and supplying sustainable alternatives to the IOC, putting environmental commitment at the coronary heart of the Olympic technique, aligned with Atos’ powerful environmental commitment in tackling the local climate modify emergency.”
As a world Husband or wife, Atos will go on its help of the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020, as well as the Olympic Winter Video games Beijing 2022, and the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, where by Atos’ world headquarters is found.
The arrangement also contains marketing and advertising legal rights for the Global Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paralympic Video games through the IOC-IPC very long-phrase collaboration arrangement, 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 supplying core Olympic devices, these kinds of as the management of accreditations, as well as applications that consist of athlete entries for functions, the on-line volunteer portal, the competitiveness timetable, workforce management, and the voting software for the IOC Athletes’ Commission, among other people. This is in addition to delivering all formal outcomes to the Video games-time web and application, and supplying the media with biographies of athletes and other varieties of background information.
At PyeongChang 2018, Atos delivered about the Cloud for the first time the vital IT devices of the Olympics. This was a replicable product, which will be utilised for Tokyo 2020, supporting the IOC in implementing sustainable alternatives by minimising the environmental effects as opposed to previous editions. At these up coming Video games, Atos will also take care of the most ground breaking Highly developed Entry Handle Program (AACS).
Jiri Kejval, IOC Marketing Commission Chair, stated: “Atos results in being the twelveth Throughout the world Olympic Husband or wife to signal through 2024. The very long-phrase help of our world partners usually means the Olympic Motion is capable to enjoy economic steadiness and operational help, which aids to prevail over troubles, which include the latest unprecedented interval. By redistributing 90{312eb768b2a7ccb699e02fa64aff7eccd2b9f51f6a579147b7ed58dbcded82a2} of the revenues it generates, the IOC is capable to help activity and athletes globally, all calendar year spherical.”
Patrick Adiba, Head of Big Situations at Atos, stated: “The Olympics is all about teamwork as we function with an ecosystem of partners. We have to function with each other to accomplish a typical purpose: earning the magic of the Olympic Video games happen. The Olympic Video games is a complex multi-stakeholder atmosphere where by we are responsible of several services, from consulting to integration and functions. We have developed a good deal in new tactics and engineering mainly because of the complexity and superior desire atmosphere of the Olympic Video games. We are happy to extend our help to the Olympic Motion, truly bringing the Olympic Video games into the electronic age.”