Atos and IOC Extend Worldwide Olympic Partnership

Paris, July nine, 2020

Atos, a global leader in electronic transformation, and the Intercontinental Olympic Committee (IOC), currently introduced an extension to their prolonged-standing Worldwide Olympic Partnership by to 2024.

Atos will extend its Major partnership by to 2024, hunting to even further help the electronic transformation of the Olympic Games as the lead integrator for technologies and to preserve satisfying its job in securing the IT infrastructure for the Olympic Wintertime Games Beijing 2022 and Olympic Games Paris 2024.

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

Atos has been an Facts Technologies Husband or wife to the Olympic Motion since 1989, when the enterprise supplied expert services for the Olympic Games Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee. Atos grew to become the Olympic Movement’s Worldwide Facts Technologies Husband or wife in 2001.

IOC President Thomas Bach stated: “In these unparalleled situations, the help and self esteem of our Worldwide Partners is now far more significant than ever. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the long term, we are happy to carry on operating with Atos, our dependable guidebook in a period of time of good electronic transformation, to present the electronic backbone and crucial electronic platforms we depend on to run the Games. We are delighted to be capable to preserve counting on Atos to help the Olympic Motion and to enable carry the Olympic values to billions of folks throughout the world.”

Atos CEO, Elie Girard, stated: “We are thrilled to even further extend our presently thirty-year-robust journey with the IOC. We will be pursuing our motivation to the empowerment of the Olympic Games by leading technologies and innovation – totally connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Games to all stakeholders. We will attain this feat by uniting folks, organization and technologies, and supplying sustainable remedies to the IOC, putting environmental motivation at the coronary heart of the Olympic tactic, aligned with Atos’ robust environmental motivation in tackling the weather change emergency.”

As a global Husband or wife, Atos will carry on its help of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, as nicely as the Olympic Wintertime Games Beijing 2022, and the Olympic Games Paris 2024, where Atos’ global headquarters is situated.

The agreement also contains advertising and marketing legal rights for the Intercontinental Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paralympic Games by the IOC-IPC prolonged-term collaboration agreement, as nicely as for the Youth Olympic Games.

Atos is presently supporting the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 by supplying main Olympic techniques, these as the management of accreditations, as nicely as programs that include athlete entries for activities, the on the internet volunteer portal, the competition program, workforce management, and the voting application for the IOC Athletes’ Fee, amongst many others. This is in addition to providing all formal effects to the Games-time net and application, and supplying the media with biographies of athletes and other styles of qualifications information.

At PyeongChang 2018, Atos shipped in excess of the Cloud for the initial time the important IT techniques of the Olympics. This was a replicable design, which will be employed for Tokyo 2020, supporting the IOC in implementing sustainable remedies by minimising the environmental impression when compared to earlier editions. At these upcoming Games, Atos will also control the most modern Highly developed Accessibility Manage Procedure (AACS).

Jiri Kejval, IOC Promoting Fee Chair, stated: “Atos results in being the twelve^th Worldwide Olympic Husband or wife to signal by 2024. The prolonged-term help of our global associates signifies the Olympic Motion is capable to love fiscal stability and operational help, which will help to get over problems, which include the existing unparalleled period of time. By redistributing 90{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of the revenues it generates, the IOC is capable to help activity and athletes globally, all year round.”

Patrick Adiba, Head of Major Gatherings at Atos, stated: “The Olympics is all about teamwork as we get the job done with an ecosystem of associates. We have to get the job done jointly to reach a prevalent aim: building the magic of the Olympic Games happen. The Olympic Games is a sophisticated multi-stakeholder environment where we are accountable of several expert services, from consulting to integration and functions. We have progressed a ton in new techniques and technologies simply because of the complexity and higher desire environment of the Olympic Games. We are proud to extend our help to the Olympic Motion, definitely bringing the Olympic Games into the electronic age.”