Planning is underway for the next Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024, and for these events, the Organizing Committee will be leveraging event technology in new ways to make both the planning process and the final outcome more efficient, enjoyable, and sustainable.
The Paris 2024 Organizing Committee has announced an official partnership with venue planning software OnePlan — the first partnership of its kind for an Olympic Games — whose Venue Twin and GIS Mapping capabilities enable event organizers and venue operators to collaborate and visually plan event venues.
“Paris 2024 will be a landmark Olympic and Paralympic Games, driven by innovation and sustainability,” said OnePlan Founder and CEO Paul Foster in a statement. “Our collaborative, easy-to-use software will streamline the planning of all event and venue operations before and during the Games. Why is quality and hyper realism so important? From anywhere in the world, users can feel like they are actually in the venues, walking the routes, hearing and seeing the environment as it will be during the Games.”
Venue Twins will be created of almost every venue involved in the Games, with twins of the Stade de France and Concorde venues having already been created. OnePlan will be used by organizers to optimize venue layout — including accessibility considerations — determine camera positions for television broadcasts, and more.
Importantly, the use of this type of innovative tool will also help the 2024 Games reduce their carbon footprint by allowing for more planning work to be done remotely, thus reducing the number of onsite visits that will be needed by various stakeholders in advance of the event.
“This will be an Olympic and Paralympic Games powered by innovation,” added Tony
Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee. “The way in which we use technology is evolving, and our partnership with OnePlan will facilitate the work of our teams and our entire ecosystem. We will be able to leave a new way of organising events helped by technology.”