Jake Slatnick, CEO and founder of FreePower, a manufacturer of wireless charging for surfaces, shares how KBIS has been a game-changer for his company.
By Nicholas Tamarin
“The magic countertop for charging my phone with no power—love that!,” NKBA Design Council founding member Thom Filicia said when he first encountered FreePower at NKBA’s The Tent during the Fall 2024 High Point Market in North Carolina. Far from fortuitous, the seed of that encounter was first planted earlier in the year at KBIS (register here for 2025 now), when FreePower’s CEO and founder Jake Slatnick first discovered NKBA’s potent value proposition. That story is now being told in a brand new video titled The Power of KBIS: Building Business Through Connections.
Give it a watch to discover how KBIS has elevated FreePower’s visibility and fostered meaningful business relationships, and why the show is the ultimate platform for innovation and connection in the design world. FreePower for Countertop, which turns any surface into a wireless charging one, debuted at KBIS 2024–after the second-generation FreePower launched with Tesla in 2023–where the company took home the Best in Show Award while providing demos of the technology and shared details with designers and fabricators on how to get started. Now, from bar tops at a restaurant to kitchen islands and home offices, this embedded technology seamlessly integrates into surfaces of all kinds. “Never having been to KBIS before, not knowing much about it, it was the best thing that we’ve done for the company,” Slatnick says. “We had an incredible show. We made thousands of contacts, we met some of the most interesting people in the industry, influencers, and executives of companies. The biggest thing that’s now come from it is we have this incredible partnership with Cosentino, one of the most inspiring businesses in the industry for me and one of the largest companies, and that would have never happened if we didn’t go and exhibit at KBIS and meet all these great people.”
So if you haven’t already registered for KBIS, don’t miss out and do it now!
