Atos looking at new app for sports with IT Challenge

PARIS, FRANCE: Atos has launched the 2014 annual IT Challenge recently. This follows the 2013 IT Challenge in which the Austrian team - Evergreen - beat 55 teams to take the winning prize for their app.

Evergreen reduces a cars gas emission and the time the driver has to wait in front of red traffic lights, by suggesting the best speed for phased traffic lights, based on the current navigation route.

The theme for the Atos 2014 IT Challenge, as further shared in a release, is creating an app for an Enhanced Games Experience for Athletes, Volunteers, Spectators and/or Visitors to the Host City of Rio de Janeiro. Students from universities in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, US, Austria and India are invited to work in teams of two up to five students, tasked with finding new, innovative and useful applications.

The winning team will be given a trip to Barcelona including visiting the Atos Olympic Games IT excellence Center, meeting the Experts (from the IOC, the IPC, the Rio 2016 Organising Committee and Atos) to investigate if and how Atos can support to develop the app. The two runner up teams will be awarded an Atos Diploma demonstrating outstanding achievement and the chance to apply for a highly sought after internship at Atos.

Atos hopes the IT Challenge will foster and encourage innovation within the future generation of IT professionals, and host the competition every year.

"Gilles Grapinet, Senior Executive Vice President at Atos said: "The IT Challenge gives students of today the chance to write the IT story of tomorrow. This competition is a fantastic learning experience for the students, the universities and ourselves. We are looking forward to seeing how the students turn their university knowledge into exciting, commercial applications for the Games. We encourage students at the participating universities to apply."

The Atos 2014 IT Challenge jury is made up of senior executives from Atos, the IOC, the IPC and the Rio 2016 Organising Committee, and industry leading partners of Atos.