All Things AI 2026

Igor Jablokov & Mark Hinkle

Founder at Pryon

Igor Jablokov is the founder and chairman of Pryon, a Raleigh-based AI company focused on making enterprise knowledge accessible through natural language systems. Before Pryon, he built Yap, one of the earliest cloud speech platforms, which was acquired by Amazon and helped shape the technology behind Alexa.Earlier, as a Program Director at IBM, he led early work that foreshadowed Watson and co-developed an early multimodal browser. Jablokov holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Penn Stat...