Exactly 20 years ago,today,I officially started the First International Conference on Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy(LIBS),in Pisa,Italy.This event gathered,for the first time,the LIBS com-munity in an International Conference and gave a sub-stantial boost to the research on the spectroscopic study of Laser-Induced Plasmas[2],as well as to a number of applications,ranging from industrial diagnostics[3],en-vironmental studies[4],biomedicine[5],cultural heritage[6],etc..