Sport & Innovation

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Performance and Big Data

As an innovation partner for our customers, we continually strive to stay one step ahead. This is made possible by our extensive research partnerships and our own research laboratories.

As a world leader in Engineering and IT Services, ALTEN is proud to open up new technological horizons and help build tomorrow’s world today. Every day, the innovations that emerge enable us to meet our customers’ transformation challenges. To do so, we leverage the contribution of industrial partnerships and shared digital platforms.

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A catalyst for high performance

Many advances from industry can be applied in sports.

Finding strength in challenges

Gaëtan Charlot, a paralympic fencing champion, also has a degree in engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Lyon.

Committed to precision

ALTEN, the FFC and the CNRS have joined forces to devise innovations that can help cyclists realize their full potential.

High-performing, highly responsible

Co-founders Marc Amerigo and Antoine Albeau talk to us about the project and its ambitions.

The secret of absolute glide

The Zephir Project combines the quest for high performance with eco-responsibility, breaking windsurfing speed records.

ALTEN TECH A SEAT conference: sport as a catalyst for innovation

With the Olympic and Paralympic Games just around the corner, how is sport a catalyst for innovation? Watch the replay video.

Magazine Alt. #3 – Sport & Innovation

We continually strive to be one step ahead. This is possible thanks to our extensive partnerships in research and our own in-house research laboratories.

Making digital twins a reality at LAAS-CNRS

Innovation it also requires the freedom to dream, the willingness to learn from mistakes, and the courage to persevere.

From labs to laps: achieving high performance in sport

Innovations to improve athletes’ performance can center on a range of objectives.

Optimizing cycling performance: on the road to the 2024 Olympic Games

Time is of the essence for athletes competing in many sports, and cycling is no exception.

Sciences2024: digital innovation meets atheltics

Interview with Etienne Pernot, Director of Research and Development at Efrei, and Elizabeth Colin, Sciences2024 Scientific Advisor from Efrei.

ALTEN becomes official partner of the ZEPHIR PROJECT

Zephir Project, unlock the secrets of absolute glide and contribute to tomorrow’s eco-responsible world!

Sports as an accelerator of innovation

ALTEN has a team of sports scientists carrying out research designed to enhance the performance of athletes in diverse fields.

Sports : Innovation for high performance athletes

Today, scientific knowledge and engineering know-how enable various players in the world of sport to innovate and optimize their quest for high performance.

Projects

The fundamentals of ALTEN’s culture are shared by all our employees: personal and professional development, excellence, the quest for sustainable growth through environmental responsibility in all our activities.

This Alt. #3 demonstrates the relevance of sports science to our quest for excellence. Sport is an inexhaustible source of challenges and an ideal vector for technological and scientific innovation. The athlete’s perseverance mirrors that of our engineers and industrial partners. Tiny, almost imperceptible details distinguish good athletes from great champions.

Alt. Magazine #3

We continually strive to be one step ahead. This is possible thanks to our extensive partnerships in research and our own in-house research laboratories.

Innovation program

When it comes to innovation, ALTEN offers a unique, multidisciplinary and multi-sector field of investigation for all its consultants, combining engineering professions with those of digital and business services. Supervised by our experts and technical and scientific specialists, they build innovative value propositions within ALTEN Labs that combine these different areas of expertise.
Backed by this in-house R&D, ALTEN is constantly reinforcing its eco-responsibility in the face of the climate and societal challenges facing global society: over 31% of our innovation activities each year address a sustainable ecology or environment issue.

Research & innovation

Our experts

“Sports is not just physical competitions, it is a laboratory for innovation. At ALTEN, as engineering experts, we are familiar with performance and continuous improvement issues. With athletes as well as with major players in industry and services, we explore how technology can be a catalyst for high performance.”
Steve Péguet – Scientific Director – ALTEN

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“What we’ve achieved here goes far beyond technological innovation. We’ve laid the foundations for a new era in sport, where technology and performance converge to advance society as a whole.”
Gualtiero Bazzana – Executive Director – ALTEN

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