Vijay Sikka is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sikka Software Corporation. Under his
leadership, Sikka Software has grown from a start-up to have over 35,000 practice installations and 120m
patients on its platform for healthcare on the demand side and over 50 companies which have built
applications on the supply side. Prior to Sikka Software, Vijay has worked in Artificial Intelligence and
decision systems for more than 25 years of experience with large scale projects at Intel Corporation,
National Institutes of Health, Glaxo Smith Kline, Roche and UCSF affiliates. In 1996, Vijay founded IBrain
Software, Inc. that used to compete with Informatica, Hyperion and Cognos and served as its CEO until its
acquisition in 1998 by Entigen Corporation, a healthcare information company that later became part of
Roche. After that Vijay co-founded Bodha.com that was acquired by Peregrine Systems/Remedy that later became
part of BMC Software. Vijay holds an M.S. degree in EE and AI from Syracuse University, New York, pursued
doctoral studies in neurosciences at Stanford University (incomplete Ph.D), and is a Registered Continuing
Education Provider in California. He is a frequent speaker at big data, AI, healthcare, technology and
quality meetings. Vijay’s book on Maximizing ROI on Software Development was published by Taylor and Francis
International and earns him a proud royalty check every few months.
Vijay was invited keynote speaker at the Digital Health World Conferences in 2019 and 2020, AI Global Forum
2020 and Biohacking Congress in London in 2020. He has published and presented in many artificial
intelligence and neural network meetings and conferences including International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, SPIE, IEEE, AAAI and CHMT and the precursor of NeurIPS.
