“I didn’t want to miss the Games in Paris, it was a dream for me to work there”confides Justine Taillebois, met near the Place de la Concorde. Recognizable by her electric blue T-shirt – “I thought it was ridiculous to have a uniform, but it’s very practical when you go to the competition venues!” –the 28-year-old woman has been an employee of the Paris 2024 organizing committee for three years. “I think there are 4,000 of us, it has increased a lot in the last six months”she says.
First hired as a consultant and then as a freelancer, she has been on a fixed-term contract since February 2023 and until the end of September as technological innovation and heritage project manager.
On the technological legacy side, Justine Taillebois was tasked with organizing an observation program for the next organizing committees of the Summer and Winter Games: people came from Milan (Italy), Los Angeles (United States) and even Brisbane (Australia), to see what Paris 2024 had put in place and what they recommend doing – or not – next time.
2D and 3D site modeling
“Technologies are evolving very quickly, so it was important that the next ones did not start from scratch, as was the case for us.she explains. There is a big issue of transmission before we all disappear into the wild. This gives a lot of meaning to everything we have done upstream, we are not doing all this simply for two times two weeks of competitions.
In terms of technological innovation, there are four of them “help to deploy projects” with the people responsible for innovation. “They drive the process by asking all departments for their needs, and we have to find the best way to achieve them.”explains Justine Taillebois. Concretely, she worked on applications for athletes and for the general public, but also on the “marathon for all” connected or on the modeling of sites in 2D and 3D so that each team (security, video capture, etc.) can anticipate its positioning.
Another big project: measuring attendance. “We lack history, so it’s a big challenge for us and for future host citiesshe explains. London in 2012 is old, Rio in 2016 was very different because all the venues were in the same place, Tokyo in 2021, there was no one there because of Covid…” The installation of sensors on the Paris 2024 sites should therefore make it possible to adapt the level of service: the number of volunteers for reception, the quantity of food or drinks, transport, etc.
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