Atos and IOC Extend Worldwide Olympic Partnership

Paris, July 9, 2020

Atos, a international leader in electronic transformation, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), now declared an extension to their extended-standing Throughout the world Olympic Partnership by to 2024.

Atos will increase its Prime partnership by to 2024, hunting to further assist the electronic transformation of the Olympic Video games as the guide integrator for technological innovation and to maintain satisfying its role 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 9, 2020

Atos has been an Information Know-how Associate to the Olympic Motion due to the fact 1989, when the business presented companies for the Olympic Video games Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee. Atos grew to become the Olympic Movement’s Throughout the world Information Know-how Associate in 2001.

IOC President Thomas Bach explained: “In these unparalleled occasions, the assist and self-confidence of our Throughout the world Associates is now a lot more important than ever. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future, we are pleased to keep on working with Atos, our trusted guideline in a period of excellent electronic transformation, to supply the electronic spine and crucial electronic platforms we depend on to operate the Video games. We are delighted to be equipped to maintain counting on Atos to assist the Olympic Motion and to assistance deliver the Olympic values to billions of men and women across the globe.”

Atos CEO, Elie Girard, explained: “We are thrilled to further increase our by now 30-yr-solid journey with the IOC. We will be pursuing our motivation to the empowerment of the Olympic Video games by top technological innovation and innovation – thoroughly connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Video games to all stakeholders. We will complete this feat by uniting men and women, organization and technological innovation, and providing sustainable methods to the IOC, placing environmental motivation at the coronary heart of the Olympic strategy, aligned with Atos’ solid environmental motivation in tackling the climate adjust crisis.”

As a international Associate, Atos will keep on its assist of the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020, as very well as the Olympic Winter season Video games Beijing 2022, and the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, the place Atos’ international headquarters is located.

The arrangement also incorporates advertising legal rights for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paralympic Video games by the IOC-IPC extended-term collaboration arrangement, as very well as for the Youth Olympic Video games.

Atos is at the moment supporting the Organising Committee for the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020 by providing main Olympic units, such as the management of accreditations, as very well as apps that incorporate athlete entries for activities, the on the net volunteer portal, the levels of competition routine, workforce management, and the voting application for the IOC Athletes’ Fee, amongst other folks. This is in addition to providing all official effects to the Video games-time website and application, and providing the media with biographies of athletes and other types of background information and facts.

At PyeongChang 2018, Atos sent around the Cloud for the 1st time the vital IT units of the Olympics. This was a replicable model, which will be employed for Tokyo 2020, supporting the IOC in employing sustainable methods by minimising the environmental effects compared to preceding editions. At these upcoming Video games, Atos will also deal with the most progressive Advanced Entry Command Program (AACS).

Jiri Kejval, IOC Promoting Fee Chair, explained: “Atos becomes the twelve^th Throughout the world Olympic Associate to signal by 2024. The extended-term assist of our international companions usually means the Olympic Motion is equipped to get pleasure from monetary security and operational assist, which will help to triumph over difficulties, like the existing unparalleled period. By redistributing 90% of the revenues it generates, the IOC is equipped to assist sport and athletes globally, all yr round.”

Patrick Adiba, Head of Significant Occasions at Atos, explained: “The Olympics is all about teamwork as we perform with an ecosystem of companions. We have to perform collectively to realize a common intention: making the magic of the Olympic Video games materialize. The Olympic Video games is a complicated multi-stakeholder natural environment the place we are accountable of numerous companies, from consulting to integration and functions. We have progressed a ton in new approaches and technological innovation because of the complexity and large demand from customers natural environment of the Olympic Video games. We are proud to increase our assist to the Olympic Motion, certainly bringing the Olympic Video games into the electronic age.”