Tom Mainelli manages the Device & Consumer Research Group, which covers a broad range of hardware categories, inclusive of both home and enterprise markets, as well as IDC's growing consumer research practice. The device research includes PCs, tablets, smartphones, wearables, smart home products, thin clients, displays, and virtual and augmented reality headsets. He also manages IDC's supply-side research team that tracks display and ODM production across a wide range of products. IDC's consumer practice, built upon its Consumer Technology Strategy Service, tracks numerous consumer-focused metrics utilizing frequent surveys and IDC-branded indexes. The consumer research also includes in-depth services focused on gaming and video.

Nag Chandrashekar is a veteran Product Manager in the enterprise SaaS space and serves currently as the Chief Product Officer at Atheer - having joined the company in 2019 though the acquisition of Flype, an innovative startup that he co-founded to create compelling customer experiences.

Geof Wheelwright is the Director of Marketing Communications for Santa Clara, California-based Atheer, Inc. Prior to joining Atheer, he had a 10 year stint in technical communications at Microsoft and was a technology journalist for more than 25 years (including work for The Times of London, the Financial Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Guardian and trade publications such as Computerworld and Geekwire). He has written several eBooks for Atheer about the use of AR in industry, covering the aviation, automotive and manufacturing sectors.