Atos and IOC Extend Worldwide Olympic Partnership
Paris, July nine, 2020
Atos, a world wide chief in electronic transformation, and the Global Olympic Committee (IOC), now declared an extension to their very long-standing Worldwide Olympic Partnership via to 2024.
Atos will lengthen its Top rated partnership via to 2024, looking to even more support the electronic transformation of the Olympic Game titles as the direct integrator for engineering and to retain fulfilling its role 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 Details Know-how Lover to the Olympic Movement considering the fact that 1989, when the business supplied expert services for the Olympic Game titles Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee. Atos became the Olympic Movement’s Worldwide Details Know-how Lover in 2001.
IOC President Thomas Bach claimed: “In these unprecedented times, the support and self confidence of our Worldwide Associates is now far more significant than ever. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the potential, we are pleased to keep on working with Atos, our trustworthy guidebook in a time period of good electronic transformation, to provide the electronic backbone and key electronic platforms we rely on to operate the Game titles. We are delighted to be equipped to retain counting on Atos to support the Olympic Movement and to assist deliver the Olympic values to billions of people across the globe.”
Atos CEO, Elie Girard, claimed: “We are thrilled to even more lengthen our previously thirty-12 months-powerful journey with the IOC. We will be pursuing our motivation to the empowerment of the Olympic Game titles via top engineering and innovation – absolutely connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Game titles to all stakeholders. We will carry out this feat by uniting people, business and engineering, and providing sustainable remedies to the IOC, placing environmental motivation at the coronary heart of the Olympic strategy, aligned with Atos’ powerful environmental motivation in tackling the weather change emergency.”
As a world wide Lover, Atos will keep on its support of the Olympic Game titles Tokyo 2020, as perfectly as the Olympic Wintertime Game titles Beijing 2022, and the Olympic Game titles Paris 2024, exactly where Atos’ world wide headquarters is found.
The settlement also consists of marketing and advertising rights for the Global Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paralympic Game titles via the IOC-IPC very long-expression collaboration settlement, as perfectly as for the Youth Olympic Game titles.
Atos is currently supporting the Organising Committee for the Olympic Game titles Tokyo 2020 by providing main Olympic programs, this kind of as the administration of accreditations, as perfectly as apps that incorporate athlete entries for situations, the on-line volunteer portal, the levels of competition timetable, workforce administration, and the voting application for the IOC Athletes’ Commission, among many others. This is in addition to delivering all official results to the Game titles-time internet and app, and providing the media with biographies of athletes and other kinds of qualifications information and facts.
At PyeongChang 2018, Atos sent above the Cloud for the initially time the critical IT programs of the Olympics. This was a replicable model, which will be employed for Tokyo 2020, supporting the IOC in employing sustainable remedies by minimising the environmental impression in contrast to earlier editions. At these up coming Game titles, Atos will also control the most ground breaking Superior Access Regulate System (AACS).
Jiri Kejval, IOC Marketing and advertising Commission Chair, claimed: “Atos will become the 12th Worldwide Olympic Lover to indication via 2024. The very long-expression support of our world wide associates implies the Olympic Movement is equipped to get pleasure from money stability and operational support, which helps to conquer issues, such as the current unprecedented time period. By redistributing ninety% of the revenues it generates, the IOC is equipped to support sport and athletes globally, all 12 months round.”
Patrick Adiba, Head of Significant Activities at Atos, claimed: “The Olympics is all about teamwork as we perform with an ecosystem of associates. We have to perform together to accomplish a typical intention: generating the magic of the Olympic Game titles occur. The Olympic Game titles is a sophisticated multi-stakeholder surroundings exactly where we are liable of multiple expert services, from consulting to integration and functions. We have evolved a large amount in new procedures and engineering simply because of the complexity and large need surroundings of the Olympic Game titles. We are very pleased to lengthen our support to the Olympic Movement, truly bringing the Olympic Game titles into the electronic age.”