September 18, 2025

EDGES 2025

​EDGES by RIL is an intimate, invite-only gathering of leaders at the frontiers of technology, startups, and human achievement. This is a space to be curious, push yourself (and be pushed by others), and connect with optimistic, rational, and down-to-earth technologists.

EDGES 2025

Responsible Innovation EDGES Summit 2025

Startups are brutally hard. The really interesting problems live out on the edges. Most tech conferences are designed to sell you something or put you in a room to be sold to. This isn't that. You can't predict the future, but you can push yourself to prepare.
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What You'll Experience:

  • Unfiltered stories about hard decisions from founders who've been there
  • Insights from technologists building at the edge of technical and ethical frontiers
  • Lightweight frameworks for navigating competitng priorities when there's no clear answer
  • Find peers working on similar problems who get the pressure of startups

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Speakers Include:

  • Matt Rogers, Co-Founder & CEO, Mill
  • Brad Porter, Founder & CEO, Cobot
  • Lan Xuezhao, Founder and Managing Director, Basis Set
  • Baron Davis, 2x NBA All-Star, Investor + Entrepreneur
  • Ernestine Fu, Founder & Managing Partner, Brave Capital
  • Maulik Shah, General Counsel, Hippocratic AI
  • Melody Meckfessel, Founder & CTO @ Stealth (xCTO Jasper)
  • More to be announced.

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Key Conversations Include:

  • The AI Horizon: Enterprise adoption, policy shifts, and technical breakthroughs shaping what today’s AI builders need to act on.
  • How Great Founders Think: A founder’s story of staying clear and grounded through high stakes decisions.
  • Building and Scaling in a Fractured World: Navigating geopolitics, regulation, and scale.

Tools + Frameworks for Founders

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Tools + Frameworks for Founders

Let’s face it: this is a challenging time in the technology industry, but if history is any guide, we know that downtimes like this are also when many of the most important businesses get started. The Responsible Innovation EDGES Summit provided resources for intrepid entrepreneurs to build and scale companies responsibly.

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Here are some examples: 

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  • Responsible Innovation Primer for Founders
  • Consequence Scanning
  • Ethical Explorer
  • 5 Tips for Building an Equitable Early Stage Company
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