As Santa and his reindeer call it a night, many showrooms slip into a brief post-holiday quiet period—and that means KBIS is just around the corner. This annual Las Vegas event, one of the largest and most influential in our industry, prompts one of the most popular questions on everyone’s mind: What trends will the show introduce that we’ll be talking about all through 2025? And the answer? In all likelihood—none.
To get a perspective on what the media said about last year’s 2024 show, I asked Microsoft Copilot for a summary of the top five KBIS reviews. Here’s what I got: