Atos launches open innovation accelerator program for startups and SMEs with strong industry focus
Paris – July 7, 2020
Atos, a world-wide leader in electronic transformation, today launches “Scaler, the Atos Accelerator”, its new startup and SME program with a exceptional target on industries, protection and decarbonization. It brings jointly Atos’ technological innovation groups with chosen startups to co-generate ground breaking electronic alternatives for shoppers in particular industries – answering proven business use conditions and benefiting from a joint and accelerated go-to-sector. Atos Scaler also supports Atos’ protection and decarbonization tactics, building them key focuses in its technique.
Each 12 months, about 15 startups or SMEs will be chosen to develop their jobs in accordance to particular consumer interests. These jobs will contribute to enriching Atos’ existing offerings. Each individual startup or SME arrives with a precise use-circumstance, particular sector-target and expertise, in line with Atos’ hottest strategic program (“SPRING”) with an sector-led shopper target.
This program is a further more phase in Atos’ fruitful collaboration with startups and SMEs, which has presently resulted in several successful jobs.
“Atos Scaler is dedicated to unleash the value of collaboration, by facilitating open up innovation and offering birth to incredibly concrete industrial programs, with accelerated time-to-sector.” states Elie Girard, Atos CEO. “Our new accelerator will be a key asset for Atos, enriching our portfolio to far better aid our consumer innovation journey, and supporting Atos’ approach though supporting the members of Atos Scaler. Sector target, Security and Decarbonization have been key facets in the collection of successful startups and will become even additional vital criteria for our approaching focus on associates.”
The 14 startups outlined beneath and comprehensive listed here are the very pleased winners chosen for the launch of Atos Scaler:
* Startups with which Atos is doing the job on decarbonization jobs
Sector-by-structure
The corporations chosen by Atos have presently verified a 1st demand from the sector. Most of them have presently worked with Atos when and Atos Scaler will help them to reward from Atos world-wide footprint. They are bringing to Atos sector abilities and business use conditions, including instant value to Atos’ consumer journey with a “ready to sell” technique.
Growing the startup business
Atos is dedicated to offering startups accessibility to its shoppers and to assistance them signal new business, translating open up innovation into concrete business realization. All chosen startups will be integrated in world-wide Atos’ pursuits globally. This contains the creation of demos which will be available in Atos’ business technological innovation centers (BTICs) and, for consumer innovation, joint innovation workshops or strategic hackathons.
Scaler will allow startups to speed up their development within just eighteen months, by accessing Atos’ shoppers and associates and benefitting from Atos’ world-wide manufacturer and visibility.
As part of the program, the chosen startups will get accessibility to key Atos’ means these types of as international business development gurus that will assistance them broaden over and above their existing sector coaching assistance in consumer innovation info internet hosting alternatives ideation & DevSecOps platform (Atos Studio) Google Cloud platform and HPC-as-a-Service. They will reward from privileged aid throughout their Scaler journey.
Improving Electronic Security
Atos has designed a exceptional innovation keep track of file in order to defend finish-buyers, IoT and info, to detect and respond to threats. Atos serves the linked entire world (sensible towns, OT in transport and Sector four.), develops Mission Significant Devices and addresses economic protection with alternatives these types of as sovereign cloud, info portability and blockchain traceability.
The Group is #3 in cybersecurity services all over the world and enhances its technologies by partnering with world-wide leaders, as effectively as choosing to do the job with startups with highly effective sector use conditions these types of as United Biometrics (robust biometric authentication) and Claroty (IT/OT protection).
In the direction of decarbonization
Atos’ ambition in the direction of decarbonization was again highlighted by its the latest determination to net-zero carbon emissions by 2035, setting the greatest decarbonization expectations for its sector. Developing on this incredibly robust position and skillset, Atos has released Decarbonization as a Service: Decarbonization for its shoppers. Scaler supports Atos’ determination to management in decarbonized electronic transformation. One of the collection criteria for the candidates was how they aid Atos’ shoppers in their journey in the direction of a decarbonized electronic entire world. Collectively with Scaler startups, Atos develops new alternatives that make decarbonization a aggressive gain.
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About Atos
Atos is a world-wide leader in electronic transformation with above 110,000 workforce in seventy three nations around the world and annual revenue of above € eleven billion. European number a person in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Higher-General performance Computing, the Group supplies finish-to-finish Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Major Facts, Business Apps and Electronic Place of work alternatives. The team is the Globally Details Engineering Husband or wife for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates underneath the brands Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The function of Atos is to assistance structure the potential of the facts technological innovation place. Its abilities and services aid the development of information, schooling as effectively as multicultural and pluralistic techniques to investigation that contribute to scientific and technological excellence. Across the entire world, the team allows its shoppers, workforce and collaborators, and members of societies at substantial to are living, do the job and develop sustainably and confidently in the facts technological innovation place.
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