Atos and IOC Extend Worldwide Olympic Partnership

Paris, July nine, 2020

Atos, a world chief in electronic transformation, and the Global Olympic Committee (IOC), nowadays declared an extension to their lengthy-standing Throughout the world Olympic Partnership through to 2024.

Atos will increase its Major partnership through to 2024, searching to even more assist the electronic transformation of the Olympic Game titles as the direct integrator for know-how and to preserve fulfilling its role in securing the IT infrastructure for the Olympic Winter 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 Technology Partner to the Olympic Movement because 1989, when the corporation furnished providers for the Olympic Game titles Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee. Atos turned the Olympic Movement’s Throughout the world Details Technology Partner in 2001.

IOC President Thomas Bach stated: “In these unparalleled moments, the assist and self-confidence of our Throughout the world Partners is now much more critical than ever. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the long term, we are pleased to carry on working with Atos, our dependable tutorial in a period of time of wonderful electronic transformation, to provide the electronic spine and vital electronic platforms we rely on to run the Game titles. We are delighted to be able to preserve counting on Atos to assist the Olympic Movement and to assistance bring the Olympic values to billions of persons throughout the globe.”

Atos CEO, Elie Girard, stated: “We are thrilled to even more increase our previously thirty-yr-potent journey with the IOC. We will be pursuing our motivation to the empowerment of the Olympic Game titles through main know-how and innovation – entirely connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Game titles to all stakeholders. We will achieve this feat by uniting persons, small business and know-how, and giving sustainable options to the IOC, placing environmental motivation at the heart of the Olympic approach, aligned with Atos’ potent environmental motivation in tackling the weather transform crisis.”

As a world Partner, Atos will carry on its assist of the Olympic Game titles Tokyo 2020, as very well as the Olympic Winter Game titles Beijing 2022, and the Olympic Game titles Paris 2024, where Atos’ world headquarters is found.

The settlement also features promoting legal rights for the Global Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paralympic Game titles through the IOC-IPC lengthy-expression collaboration settlement, as very well as for the Youth Olympic Game titles.

Atos is presently supporting the Organising Committee for the Olympic Game titles Tokyo 2020 by giving main Olympic methods, such as the management of accreditations, as very well as programs that involve athlete entries for activities, the on line volunteer portal, the levels of competition program, workforce management, and the voting software for the IOC Athletes’ Commission, among other people. This is in addition to offering all official effects to the Game titles-time web and app, and giving the media with biographies of athletes and other types of track record information and facts.

At PyeongChang 2018, Atos shipped in excess of the Cloud for the first time the important IT methods of the Olympics. This was a replicable model, which will be employed for Tokyo 2020, supporting the IOC in utilizing sustainable options by minimising the environmental influence compared to earlier editions. At these following Game titles, Atos will also manage the most progressive Highly developed Entry Management Program (AACS).

Jiri Kejval, IOC Internet marketing Commission Chair, stated: “Atos turns into the twelve^th Throughout the world Olympic Partner to indicator through 2024. The lengthy-expression assist of our world companions means the Olympic Movement is able to delight in financial security and operational assist, which helps to overcome challenges, together with the present-day unparalleled period of time. By redistributing 90% of the revenues it generates, the IOC is able to assist activity and athletes globally, all yr round.”

Patrick Adiba, Head of Important Situations at Atos, stated: “The Olympics is all about teamwork as we do the job with an ecosystem of companions. We have to do the job with each other to obtain a typical objective: creating the magic of the Olympic Game titles happen. The Olympic Game titles is a sophisticated multi-stakeholder setting where we are accountable of numerous providers, from consulting to integration and functions. We have evolved a lot in new procedures and know-how because of the complexity and substantial demand setting of the Olympic Game titles. We are proud to increase our assist to the Olympic Movement, truly bringing the Olympic Game titles into the electronic age.”