AI for Growth: Sales, pipeline and customer acquisition

Liz Rhodes is CEO at Leeds-based Art of Cloud, a dynamic technology consultancy, specialising in all areas of the Salesforce platform. She is an experienced business leader who has spent her career in tech promoting the sector and supporting others. Her team works with a growing roster of clients - helping them harness the power of AI to achieve greater efficiency and commercial success.

Mark Taylor is founder and CEO of British Ai company Automated Analytics. The 8th fastest growing tech company in Europe according to the Financial Time, their software solution solves attribution for marketing, sales and customer service team. Based in Doncaster, Mark is very proud his company will be the first tenant of the new Gateway One Building in Doncaster.

Mehrdad Sadraei is the proud migrant Co-Founder and CEO of SWAI, an AI-native platform designed to close the gap between marketing and sales strategy and execution.
Mehrdad brings both technical and commercial experience to this space. He spent several years working hands-on in performance marketing and growth, gaining first-hand insight into the inefficiencies and cost structures that limit how companies scale.
His work today focuses on helping businesses move from slow, tool-driven execution to faster, more integrated systems that improve conversion, reduce customer acquisition costs, and create more predictable growth.

Sara founded NoCodeLab in May 2025 to address a persistent gap in AI adoption among non-technical business leaders and training programmes that consistently fail to deliver lasting capability and impact. While most consultancies deploy tool stacks and conduct workshops before leaving teams behind, still confused, NoCodeLab embeds operational expertise that confidently remains within client organisations. Sara brings two decades of business and operations intelligence experience from WPP, Dentsu, Vistaprint and Oriflame. Since May 2025, she has trained more than 3,000 business leaders and worked directly with C-suite teams at small and medium-sized enterprises and agencies across the UK and Europe. Previously, she led a Web3 start-up backed by Animoca Brands, Brinc and Cointelegraph. She has mentored hundreds of start-ups through international accelerator programmes and has served as a lecturer on digital strategy at Manchester Metropolitan University and blockchain at Medieinstitutet (to present day). Sara Simeone is recognised to be among the Top 100 Women of the Future, Innovate Finance's Top Senior Leaders, and Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in Tech.