Helen Sun

Helen Sun is a technology strategist and thought leader. She is known as an expert in transforming businesses through innovative solutions applying artificial intelligence, cloud, analytics, and architecture. Before joining Facebook as an engineering and AI leader, Helen was Chief Technology Officer at Stats Perform, and CTO at JP Morgan Chase Commercial Banking. Prior to her rising to C-Suite, Helen held various executive roles at some of the most innovative companies including Motorola Solutions, Oracle, and Salesforce. Helen is a published author of highly rated titles in big data and analytics including “The Big Data Handbook”, and "Master Competitive Analytics with Oracle Endeca Information Discovery". Her 3rd title named “Pro Salesforce Analytics Cloud” was published in January 2016. Helen is a frequent speaker at major conferences, including GOTO CTO Summit, IEEE, Oracle Open World, Hadoop Summit, and The Open Group events. Helen was also keynote speaker at The Open Group Big Data Conference. She was the featured speaker at the University of Chicago “Women in Analytics” symposium, and Northwestern University MEM Industry Night. Helen was recognized as Timmy Awards Best Tech Manager of the year 2019, Crain's Tech 50 in 2018, and Chicago Women of influence class of 2016. Helen has strived to mentor women throughout her career. While at Oracle, Helen became the first woman to achieve “Oracle Enterprise Architect” status. She was subsequently honored as “Oracle Enterprise Architect of the Year” for her contributions on critical growth. After this achievement, Helen mentored other women at Oracle, who also achieved this elite status. During her tenure, Helen lead the development of Oracle Information Architecture Framework and Development Process, and published many white papers on Architecture, Big Data, Analytics, and Data Governance. While at Salesforce, Helen was the head of global enterprise architecture. She created an EA framework, training, GTM strategy, certification process, and subsequently mentored architects to achieve certification. Helen also currently serves as board member for P33 and i.c.stars.