How to live stream a PhD school?
The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to run the 3rd Future-IoT PhD school fully online. This article and the accompanying video detail our solution.
Luckily the efforts started last year in Munich with live streaming already, giving us some experience that we pushed at least one step further. Find the resulting videos of this year here.
The main challenge was that we had three audiences and the speakers, (1) very limited local live audience, (2) remote closed audience, (3) remote free audience, and (4) remote and local speakers. All needed to be handled live.
Another challenge was, how to get a high quality video of the slides as typical screen sharing tends not to be that good and fluent.
- The main equipment was:
- 1x Atem mini (for mixing the main video input)
- 1x Atem mini pro (for output recording and live streaming)
- 1x Elgato CamLink 4K (for bringing the remote speakers in)
- 1x Linux PC with OBS (for the main video processing)
- 1x Notebook Slides (with remote control for having high quality slide image)
- 1x Notebook local speaker / moderation
- 1x Notebook video player (for standby videos)
The 2 Atem minis and OBS, this setup realised a continuous live stream and in parallel single streams per talk. We had remote audience via Zoom and YouTube, Facebook, Twitter. In addition, remote speakers and local speakers as well as local audience.
The video explains the setup more in detail. Enjoy, and comment how you like it!
Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (https://germany.acm.org/), he leads the axis Future Education of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (https://future-industry.org/). He is continuously co-organizing scientific conferences since 2015. Until 2/2021, Marc-Oliver was co-leading a research team of more than 20 permanent researchers in the CNRS UMR LAB-STICC at IMT Atlantique. Until 10/2019, he headed a research team with 5 PhD students at Technical University of Munich.
Marc-Oliver’s research domains are cybersecurity, distributed networked systems, Internet of Things, data and service management. In addition to ethical aspects of computer science, Marc-Oliver promotes continuous exchange between business, academia and the public in the field of cybersecurity (https://future-iot.org/, https://talk.cybercni.fr/, https://being-human-with-algorithms.org/).
Besides his research around the Internet of Things and cybersecurity, Marc-Oliver loves teaching for a living. He has been continuously teaching Computer Networks and Distributed Systems at German and French universities since 2003. His biggest course is the freely available Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "iLabX - The Internet Masterclass" (https://ilabx.ilabxp.com/).
Marc-Oliver is the recipient of numerous prestigious teaching awards. Among them the Ernst Otto Fischer Teaching Award 2013 and the PhD Supervisory Award 2020 of the Technical University of Munich.
Marc-Oliver conducts research in the national and international arena and has successfully acquired numerous research grants in the millions.