Turlif Vilbrandt attended The Pittsburgh Filmmakers' School of Film, Video and Photography. He has worked as a production assistant for major Hollywood films, a videographer for the World Wildlife Fund in South America, and, for the last ten years, as a digital media consultant in his own company, Applied Vector Modeling, as well as lead programmer for the Oregon Center for Applied Science in Eugene, Oregon. He has traveled in South America, Antarctica, Alaska, Japan and Southeast Asia with a view to preserving and documenting history and nature.

Turlif will present Making It Realtime: Exploring the use of optimized realtime environments for historical simulation and education.