Atos and IOC Extend Worldwide Olympic Partnership

Paris, July nine, 2020

Atos, a world-wide leader in digital transformation, and the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), right now introduced an extension to their long-standing Globally Olympic Partnership as a result of to 2024.

Atos will increase its Best partnership as a result of to 2024, hunting to even more aid the digital transformation of the Olympic Video games as the lead integrator for know-how and to keep fulfilling its position in securing the IT infrastructure for the Olympic Winter season Video games Beijing 2022 and Olympic Video games Paris 2024.

Elie Girard, Atos CEO, and Thomas Bach, IOC President, at Bezons, on July nine, 2020

Atos has been an Facts Technology Lover to the Olympic Motion because 1989, when the enterprise delivered companies for the Olympic Video games Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee. Atos turned the Olympic Movement’s Globally Facts Technology Lover in 2001.

IOC President Thomas Bach said: “In these unprecedented times, the aid and confidence of our Globally Companions is now additional critical than at any time. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future, we are happy to keep on functioning with Atos, our trustworthy guideline in a period of time of great digital transformation, to present the digital backbone and important digital platforms we depend on to run the Video games. We are delighted to be equipped to keep counting on Atos to aid the Olympic Motion and to assistance deliver the Olympic values to billions of men and women across the world.”

Atos CEO, Elie Girard, said: “We are thrilled to even more increase our now thirty-yr-sturdy journey with the IOC. We will be pursuing our dedication to the empowerment of the Olympic Video games as a result of foremost know-how and innovation – absolutely connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Video games to all stakeholders. We will accomplish this feat by uniting men and women, business enterprise and know-how, and providing sustainable options to the IOC, putting environmental dedication at the heart of the Olympic method, aligned with Atos’ sturdy environmental dedication in tackling the local weather alter emergency.”

As a world-wide Lover, Atos will keep on its aid of the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020, as nicely as the Olympic Winter season Video games Beijing 2022, and the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, exactly where Atos’ world-wide headquarters is found.

The agreement also includes advertising and marketing rights for the Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paralympic Video games as a result of the IOC-IPC long-term collaboration agreement, as nicely as for the Youth Olympic Video games.

Atos is at this time supporting the Organising Committee for the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020 by providing core Olympic programs, these kinds of as the management of accreditations, as nicely as applications that include things like athlete entries for functions, the on the net volunteer portal, the opposition agenda, workforce management, and the voting application for the IOC Athletes’ Commission, among other folks. This is in addition to providing all formal success to the Video games-time world-wide-web and app, and providing the media with biographies of athletes and other styles of background data.

At PyeongChang 2018, Atos delivered around the Cloud for the first time the critical IT programs of the Olympics. This was a replicable model, which will be applied for Tokyo 2020, supporting the IOC in utilizing sustainable options by minimising the environmental effect when compared to previous editions. At these following Video games, Atos will also deal with the most innovative Advanced Accessibility Command Program (AACS).

Jiri Kejval, IOC Advertising Commission Chair, said: “Atos will become the twelve^th Globally Olympic Lover to indicator as a result of 2024. The long-term aid of our world-wide companions means the Olympic Motion is equipped to get pleasure from money security and operational aid, which can help to get over troubles, together with the present unprecedented period of time. By redistributing 90% of the revenues it generates, the IOC is equipped to aid sport and athletes globally, all yr round.”

Patrick Adiba, Head of Big Situations at Atos, said: “The Olympics is all about teamwork as we operate with an ecosystem of companions. We have to operate together to achieve a common aim: generating the magic of the Olympic Video games materialize. The Olympic Video games is a complex multi-stakeholder surroundings exactly where we are dependable of several companies, from consulting to integration and functions. We have evolved a good deal in new techniques and know-how for the reason that of the complexity and superior demand surroundings of the Olympic Video games. We are proud to increase our aid to the Olympic Motion, really bringing the Olympic Video games into the digital age.”