Atos and IOC Extend Worldwide Olympic Partnership
Paris, July nine, 2020
Atos, a international chief in electronic transformation, and the Intercontinental Olympic Committee (IOC), nowadays announced an extension to their lengthy-standing Throughout the world Olympic Partnership via to 2024.
Atos will lengthen its Leading partnership via to 2024, seeking to more support the electronic transformation of the Olympic Online games as the direct integrator for technologies and to continue to keep satisfying its purpose in securing the IT infrastructure for the Olympic Winter Online games Beijing 2022 and Olympic Online games Paris 2024.
Elie Girard, Atos CEO, and Thomas Bach, IOC President, at Bezons, on July nine, 2020
Atos has been an Information Know-how Partner to the Olympic Motion given that 1989, when the enterprise presented products and services for the Olympic Online games Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee. Atos grew to become the Olympic Movement’s Throughout the world Information Know-how Partner in 2001.
IOC President Thomas Bach explained: “In these unprecedented instances, the support and confidence of our Throughout the world Companions is now additional significant than ever. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future, we are pleased to carry on performing with Atos, our dependable information in a period of time of terrific electronic transformation, to deliver the electronic spine and essential electronic platforms we rely on to run the Online games. We are delighted to be ready to continue to keep counting on Atos to support the Olympic Motion and to assistance provide the Olympic values to billions of folks throughout the world.”
Atos CEO, Elie Girard, explained: “We are thrilled to more lengthen our now thirty-year-powerful journey with the IOC. We will be pursuing our determination to the empowerment of the Olympic Online games via main technologies and innovation – absolutely connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Online games to all stakeholders. We will attain this feat by uniting folks, organization and technologies, and furnishing sustainable remedies to the IOC, placing environmental determination at the heart of the Olympic technique, aligned with Atos’ powerful environmental determination in tackling the local weather modify emergency.”
As a international Partner, Atos will carry on its support of the Olympic Online games Tokyo 2020, as nicely as the Olympic Winter Online games Beijing 2022, and the Olympic Online games Paris 2024, exactly where Atos’ international headquarters is found.
The arrangement also consists of marketing legal rights for the Intercontinental Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paralympic Online games via the IOC-IPC lengthy-term collaboration arrangement, as nicely as for the Youth Olympic Online games.
Atos is now supporting the Organising Committee for the Olympic Online games Tokyo 2020 by furnishing core Olympic systems, this sort of as the administration of accreditations, as nicely as programs that incorporate athlete entries for situations, the online volunteer portal, the competitiveness routine, workforce administration, and the voting application for the IOC Athletes’ Commission, among other individuals. This is in addition to offering all official success to the Online games-time web and application, and furnishing the media with biographies of athletes and other kinds of track record data.
At PyeongChang 2018, Atos delivered more than the Cloud for the 1st time the important IT systems of the Olympics. This was a replicable design, which will be used for Tokyo 2020, supporting the IOC in implementing sustainable remedies by minimising the environmental affect as opposed to past editions. At these upcoming Online games, Atos will also handle the most revolutionary Sophisticated Access Manage Process (AACS).
Jiri Kejval, IOC Internet marketing Commission Chair, explained: “Atos gets to be the 12th Throughout the world Olympic Partner to indication via 2024. The lengthy-term support of our international partners usually means the Olympic Motion is ready to delight in economical security and operational support, which assists to triumph over worries, including the present-day unprecedented period of time. By redistributing ninety% of the revenues it generates, the IOC is ready to support activity and athletes globally, all year round.”
Patrick Adiba, Head of Important Events at Atos, explained: “The Olympics is all about teamwork as we get the job done with an ecosystem of partners. We have to get the job done jointly to achieve a frequent objective: generating the magic of the Olympic Online games come about. The Olympic Online games is a sophisticated multi-stakeholder atmosphere exactly where we are dependable of multiple products and services, from consulting to integration and functions. We have advanced a whole lot in new strategies and technologies for the reason that of the complexity and higher desire atmosphere of the Olympic Online games. We are happy to lengthen our support to the Olympic Motion, truly bringing the Olympic Online games into the electronic age.”