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 extensive-standing Worldwide Olympic Partnership by means of to 2024.

Atos will extend its Top partnership by means of to 2024, on the lookout to even more help the electronic transformation of the Olympic Online games as the guide integrator for technological innovation and to continue to keep satisfying its purpose in securing the IT infrastructure for the Olympic Wintertime 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 and facts Engineering Spouse to the Olympic Movement considering the fact that 1989, when the business supplied services for the Olympic Online games Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee. Atos turned the Olympic Movement’s Worldwide Information and facts Engineering Spouse in 2001.

IOC President Thomas Bach mentioned: “In these unparalleled instances, the help and assurance of our Worldwide Companions is now far more crucial than at any time. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the upcoming, we are delighted to continue on doing the job with Atos, our reliable information in a time period of fantastic electronic transformation, to present the electronic backbone and vital electronic platforms we count on to run the Online games. We are delighted to be capable to continue to keep counting on Atos to help the Olympic Movement and to aid convey the Olympic values to billions of people throughout the world.”

Atos CEO, Elie Girard, mentioned: “We are thrilled to even more extend our previously 30-year-robust journey with the IOC. We will be pursuing our dedication to the empowerment of the Olympic Online games by means of primary technological innovation and innovation – completely connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Online games to all stakeholders. We will carry out this feat by uniting people, small business and technological innovation, and giving sustainable answers to the IOC, placing environmental dedication at the coronary heart of the Olympic method, aligned with Atos’ robust environmental dedication in tackling the local weather alter emergency.”

As a world-wide Spouse, Atos will continue on its help of the Olympic Online games Tokyo 2020, as well as the Olympic Wintertime Online games Beijing 2022, and the Olympic Online games Paris 2024, in which Atos’ world-wide headquarters is found.

The settlement also features marketing rights for the Global Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paralympic Online games by means of the IOC-IPC extensive-expression collaboration settlement, as well as for the Youth Olympic Online games.

Atos is at the moment supporting the Organising Committee for the Olympic Online games Tokyo 2020 by giving core Olympic programs, this sort of as the management of accreditations, as well as applications that involve athlete entries for situations, the on line volunteer portal, the levels of competition plan, workforce management, and the voting application for the IOC Athletes’ Fee, among many others. This is in addition to offering all formal success to the Online games-time world wide web and application, and giving the media with biographies of athletes and other kinds of track record facts.

At PyeongChang 2018, Atos delivered about the Cloud for the very first time the important IT programs of the Olympics. This was a replicable model, which will be used for Tokyo 2020, supporting the IOC in applying sustainable answers by minimising the environmental effect in comparison to former editions. At these upcoming Online games, Atos will also take care of the most modern Sophisticated Accessibility Regulate Program (AACS).

Jiri Kejval, IOC Advertising Fee Chair, mentioned: “Atos becomes the twelve^th Worldwide Olympic Spouse to signal by means of 2024. The extensive-expression help of our world-wide partners usually means the Olympic Movement is capable to enjoy financial security and operational help, which assists to get over problems, together with the current unparalleled time period. By redistributing 90{79e59ee6e2f5cf570628ed7ac4055bef3419265de010b59461d891d43fac5627} of the revenues it generates, the IOC is capable to help sport and athletes globally, all year spherical.”

Patrick Adiba, Head of Main Functions at Atos, mentioned: “The Olympics is all about teamwork as we operate with an ecosystem of partners. We have to operate together to obtain a typical target: making the magic of the Olympic Online games occur. The Olympic Online games is a elaborate multi-stakeholder setting in which we are accountable of several services, from consulting to integration and functions. We have progressed a whole lot in new techniques and technological innovation because of the complexity and substantial demand from customers setting of the Olympic Online games. We are very pleased to extend our help to the Olympic Movement, genuinely bringing the Olympic Online games into the electronic age.”