Atos opens Technology Operations Center for Paris Olympics
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John Moulding
| 05 October 2023
2 Atos opens Technology Operations Center for Paris Olympics

Atos has opened a 610 square-metre Technology Operations Center (TOC) that will be the control and command centre for technology that supervises all 63 Olympic and Paralympic competition and non-competition venues.

The centre opened on October 4. Atos is the global IT partner and chief IT integrator of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and part of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 technology team. It plays a key role in managing TOC operations related to IT services and will coordinate more than 2,000 experts who will be operating a 24/7 service throughout the competition.

Atos leverages the TOC to coordinate 140 Venue IT Managers across all Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 operational locations. The TOC will deploy a wide range of IT equipment to support the running of the competitions and delivery of results. Atos will also provide support to the 60 Venue Results Managers from the TOC.

The company is responsible for correctly gathering and publishing performance data and statistics on the Olympic Diffusion System (ODS) and will announce this data within a timeframe of 0.35 seconds, ready for use by the media and the competition website. The Commentator Information System (CIS) will provide sports journalists with data, whether live on-venue from Paris or off-venue in their home country.

The TOC is one of three technology hubs dedicated to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, along with Barcelona's Central Technology Operations Center (CTOC) and the Integration Testing Lab (ITL) in Madrid. Atos can replicate these three autonomous, complementary, sustainable IT structures, thus reducing the environmental impact of IT during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Bruno Marie-Rose, Chief Information and Technology Officer, Paris 2024, says: "The opening of the TOC, the IT hub at the heart of Paris 2024, is a key milestone in the final sprint undertaken by Atos to deliver a more connected and technologically advanced Olympic and Paralympic Games for athletes, sports federations, the media and the general public. Paris 2024 will benefit from Atos' unique expertise.”

Christophe Thivet, Chief Integration Officer for Paris 2024 at Atos, added: "The success of the Olympic and Paralympic Games mostly depends on the ability to integrate, manage and ensure uptime for technologies and IT systems which form the core services provided to stakeholders throughout the competition ecosystem. The TOC opening reflects the hard work of Atos' teams and partners alike.”

Photo courtesy of Atos Group, showing the TOC opening with: Patrick Adiba, CEO of Olympics and Major Events Atos; Bérénice Chassagne, CEO of Growing Markets at Atos; Nourdine Bihmane, CEO Tech Foundations, Atos; Tony Estanguet, President of the Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.