On September 13th at 12:00 PM, a public lecture will be held in the conference hall of Caucasus University titled "2025-26 Trends for Entrepreneurs, Innovators, and Investors“.

The lecture will be delivered by Bret Waters, founder and former CEO of three Silicon Valley software companies. Now he teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University and is an active angel investor.

The lecture will cover the following topics: What are the trends that startup founders and investors should be thinking about, all over the world? (It’s not just AI). In this view-from-Silicon-Valley talk, Bret discusses what he sees as the key trends. This is not a list of technology trends, per se, it’s a list of global trends across several dimensions including sources and structures of capital, organizational structures, and marketplace trends. We are in a whole new era now, and the next decade will be filled with opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors, all over the world.

Bret Waters is the author of the new book, The Launch Path, Getting from a startup idea to a launched and funded venture.

Previously he spent six years on the advisory board of the Stanford University Graduate  School of Education, was interim CEO at Stanford New Schools, and served as Chief Mentor with the European Innovation Academy, teaching Silicon Valley innovation methodology to engineering students from around the world.

He received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He’s delivered guest talks at more than 20 universities around the world.

Those who wish to attend the public lecture are kindly requested to register at the following link.