And the keynote speaker at KBIS 2009 is...
Every year, my industry holds an enormous trade show we call KBIS. KBIS stands for the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show. Every year, KBIS takes place in a different city. Though due to it million-ish square feet of floor space requirements, those cities are pretty much restricted to Orlando, Chicago, Las Vegas and Atlanta.
KBIS is not just a alternate show, it is also an opportunity to wait seminars and community with fellow visitors. HGTV publicizes from the show ground and the rest of the regular press is in attendance too. The new merchandise that debut at KBIS become on sales flooring inside weeks, and that show is regularly the handiest opportunity design execs need to kick the tires on stuff they may be specifying inside the yr ahead.
KBIS starts with a keynote deal with given through a person all of us admires and whose opinion counts for something. This year, with the enterprise on its knees and designer-kinds searching out some thing, some thing to tell them that matters gets better; the want for a rallying speaker could not be greater suggested. Instead, the committee picked Mike Huckabee. Yes, THAT Mike Huckabee. The failed presidential candidate and creationist extraordinaire.
Now Mike Huckabee has what to do with the Kitchen and Bath Biz precisely? I might not anticipate a solution. But geez, can we please get someone with an information of the enterprise subsequent time?