Two days of classes, speakers, and social events, all focused on growing your network and building your skills. Learn more about lasers, design, and project techniques. Get a preview of LightBurn’s development roadmap and future plans. Show off your work to LBX attendees and the public. Meet fellow makers, and the LightBurn team! LBX 2025 will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City, New York, from July 19th – 20th.
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Two days of events, LBX T-Shirt, badge, and one-year LightBurn license renewal.
You must register for the sessions you wish to attend at LBX 2025. You may select one session for each time slot below. If you do not wish to attend any session in a given time slot, select "No Session".
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Emily Caroline | LightBurn Pro Tips: Hacks to Enhance Your Workflow
Emily will share her top strategies for getting the most out of LightBurn. Whether you're looking to streamline your process, tackle complex designs, or unlock hidden features, these tips will elevate your laser projects. Join Emily to discover practical hacks that will save you time and boost your efficiency in unexpected ways.
Bradford Woodson | Materials Testing and Procedures
Brad will lecture on material testing and procedures: best practices for testing materials, safety protocols, how to be consistent with material testing, and the development of the perfect library. He'll explain how he got into material testing and how it's helped him, then cover his step-by-step process for using LightBurn to achieve quality tests with consistency.
Mayra Aguilar | Leveraging Laser Technology to Diversify and Scale Your Business
Mayra will share how she successfully used her laser to branch out into new materials, offering new products that have helped scale her business. She'll cover how she's identified new market opportunities and customer needs that aligned with my new product offerings, leading to increased sales, new customer segments, and expanded market reach, all because of the new products that were made possible with her laser.
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Mark Garetz | LightBurn Text From A-Z
This class will cover everything you ever wanted to know about using text in LightBurn. All the controls and tips to get the most of LightBurn's extensive text capabilities, from the basics to the most advanced controls and techniques.
Bail Ansari | Mixed Media Mastery: Integrating Sublimation and Laser Techniques
Incorporating sublimation and laser cutting/engraving into your projects can open up a wide range of creative possibilities. In this class, attendees will learn essential materials, design considerations, and techniques for integrating sublimation into their laser projects. Attendees will learn the creative benefits of combining these methods, along with the functional advantages. Additionally, the session will address common challenges and solutions for integrating these techniques into projects.
Josh Malavolti | Transforming Artwork Into Precision-Cut Designs With LightBurn and MillMage
This presentation will demonstrate one method of transforming hand-drawn artwork into precise, manufacturable designs using LightBurn and MillMage. By focusing on a large-scale Beetlejuice prop replica, we'll explore the process of vectorizing, node editing, and cleaning up designs for cutting. While this is just one approach, attendees will gain insights into transitioning from creative concepts to production-ready files for laser cutters and CNC routers/mills.
Jason Dorie | LightBurn Tips and Tricks
Join Jason as he shares tips and trick for using LightBurn. As LightBurn's Founder and Lead Developer, no other brain on Earth contains as much LightBurn knowledge as his. Attendees will learn time saving tips and advanced techniques that will take them one step closer to becoming LightBurn pros.Note: this session will repeat on Sunday, 10 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Heather Lynn | From Screen to Beam: Mastering the Use of Procreate With LightBurn
Heather will teach the step-by-step process of importing a photograph of a house into Procreate, tracing and exporting it as a PNG, then importing it into LightBurn. Next, she'll go over the process of setting up the engraving settings in LightBurn, creating a cut path, and sending the project to the laser.
Brodie Fairhall | Boutique Business to Boutique Factory
Brodie will give a talk about different ways to take a mostly manual process in a small business and automate it, allowing the business to scale without losing its charm. Deciding what to do by hand and what to delegate to machines can be tough, and turning it into a process that does this efficiently can be even harder. He'll walk through an example of using Laser cutting, 3D printing, and specialized 3D CAD to improve the manufacturing process for custom shoes.
Billie Ruben | How to Fix a File: Making Designs Laser-Ready
Struggling to laser logos sent to you by customers? Or files you bought online? Many common practices in graphics and print media cause havoc when it comes to lasering. In this class, Billie draws on her experience facilitating publicly-accessible laser cutters to run you through common design errors, and teach you how to fix them — quickly, easily, and while maintaining high quality.
Sumita & Anuj Patel | Dominating Your Local Market With B2B Sales
In this presentation, we’ll explore proven strategies to establish and grow your laser engraving business in your local market. We’ll cover how to identify your ideal customers, differentiate your services, leverage local marketing channels, and build strong relationships that drive repeat business. Whether you're just starting out or looking to scale, this session will equip you with the tools and tactics to increase sales and become the go-to engraving service in your area.
Ben Maxwell | Batch Galvo Production
Ben will cover the ins and outs of batch production using a Galvo laser and a rotating or linear axis table. This class will cover jig use, Repeat Marking, Variable Text, QR Codes, and more, all in the context of Galvo lasers.
Ryan Priore | Laser Material Safety
In this presentation on Laser Safety, the primary focus will be on the importance of material safety, particularly the hazards associated with the combustion byproducts generated during laser cutting. Different materials can release toxic fumes, requiring proper ventilation and protective measures to ensure a safe working environment. The presentation will also cover the necessity of understanding the material properties before laser cutting to prevent fires or harmful chemical reactions. Additionally, a brief overview of laser eye safety will be provided, highlighting the risks and precautions needed to protect vision during laser operations. The goal is to emphasize the critical safety protocols that must be followed to minimize health risks and ensure safe laser usage for oneself and others.
Chelsea Sauder | Elevate Your Acrylic Designs
Have your acrylic projects ever felt... well, flat? With so many styles, acrylic is a popular material for laser crafters, but it is still just a sheet of plastic. Join Chelsea from Houston Acrylic, as she goes over different techniques and trends you can use to make your acrylic projects stand out. From dual engraving to heat forming, discover how to craft your acrylic into art.
Joe Spanier | Laser Skills to CNC Routing and Beyond
Joe will cover things like terminology changes between the device types, how operations change, and workflow changes. We will also touch on combination projects and how lasers and CNC machines complement each other.
Alan Puccinelli | LightBurn Developer Panel
Alan will host a panel discussion with the LightBurn Development Team. This session will feature a Q&A with the audience.Note: this session will repeat on Sunday 2 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Hope Yoder | Engrave and Embroider
Learn how to mix lasers and embroidery for hats, hoodies, and flats, score points with realtor gifts, and ditch the overwhelm of picking the right embroidery machine. Plus, some clever ways to bundle for maximum profits.
Jeff Stockton | Whale Hunting: Going After Large Corporate Orders
Jeff will convey the teachings and techniques he's learned along the journey of trying to get large orders from large corporations and companies. The deadlines, the insurance, the logistics, the volume, and, above all, the pricing structure he's created. This valuable information will help any new laser business succeed.
Laura Mathews | How I Made My Dragon
Laura will tell the story of how she created the large laser-cut LightBurn Dragon, from the initial design stages to the final creation. She'll show early sketches, the technical drawings for articulating pieces, the process of testing, maquette-making, and all the highs and lows along the way!
Join Jason as he shares tips and trick for using LightBurn. As LightBurn's Founder and Lead Developer, no other brain on Earth contains as much LightBurn knowledge as his. Attendees will learn time saving tips and advanced techniques that will take them one step closer to becoming LightBurn pros.
Jeremy Lee | Machine Vision: Measuring Ground-Truth When Cameras Are Full of Lies
Jeremy will provide an overview of the current state of machine vision tools in LightBurn and what they do. He'll explain how to choose and get the best out of your camera, what lens calibration and alignment are, and how to do them well. Finally, he'll give guidance on constructing a high-quality calibration target using office supplies, explore the newest features, and discuss what's coming next.
Scott Pilutik | Sourcing Laser Files and Understanding IP Law
Scott will cover how and where to get stock photos and stock vectors for lasering, including rights and licensing issues associated with stock photos and vectors. He'll explain the advantages and disadvantages of paying for files, what terms like "royalty free" actually mean, and the difference between standard and extended licensing for files. Finally, he'll discuss the ethics of using versus abusing files on the internet, including AI-generated files, and answer audience questions.
Robert Kofoed | Jig Making in LightBurn
Robert's presentation will cover the creation and use of jigs — when and why they're beneficial, and how to make them using LightBurn.
Max Lopez | Dragging Stop Motion Into the 21st Century: Advanced Manufacturing in the Animation Pipeline
This presentation will discuss how CGI previs, coupled with laser cutting and 3D printing, has allowed Apartment D to push the envelope of what can be achieved with stop motion animation on an indie budget. Through examples from past projects, you'll see how we've used this pipeline to: strengthen communication with our clients, empower our artists to be more ambitious with the medium, and unlock new design languages for our projects. From there, we'll discuss the frontier of what is and will be possible by leveraging existing technologies in conjunction with this pipeline. Expect very cool stop motion behind-the-scenes images.
Alan will host a panel discussion with the LightBurn Development Team. This session will feature a Q&A with the audience.
Marc Hammons | Designing and Making Puzzles in LightBurn
Dive in to the world of laser cut puzzle development, from concept through product. This session hosts an overview of artwork, puzzle cut, materials, production, and packaging, with emphasis on the features of LightBurn for puzzle cut design and product manufacture. We'll touch on various cut styles, including classical, tessellations, computer generated, and freeform designs. The session will also explore nuances and secrets of the overall laser puzzle manufacturing process from printer, to laser bed, to workbench. If you've ever wanted to get deeper into laser-cut puzzle making, this is the session for you.
Alisha Pate | Demanding Shaping Your Products in the Laser Industry
Demand shaping involves steering customer demand to better match a company’s supply and strategic objectives. In short, demand shaping is a company’s strategy to manage customer demand to match its supply capabilities and objectives. It can help laser businesses reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction, and increase market share. Additionally, it can support increased margins by leveraging scales and scope of economies of increased volumes of existing product offerings. Alisha will talk about why a company should think about doing this and how she has transitioned her business this way.
Mumtaz Cooper | Empowering Communities Through Innovative Laser Technlogy
In this talk, Taji will examine how laser technology can be harnessed to drive social justice and community development. By showcasing real-world examples and sharing actionable insights, she'll aim to demonstrate how attendees can utilize laser technology to effect positive social change and empower their communities.
Jason Rife | Everything Rotary
Jason will lecture on everything rotary related: from setup to use with LightBurn and lasers. He'll go over tips and trick on how to better-use all aspects involve with rotary engraving, and include a brief Q&A with the audience.
Stan Altshuller | Spin Up a Profit With Rotary Engraving
This talk will be an overview on why makers need a rotary and the three proven strategies to make money today even if the markets are slow. We will dig deep into the actual steps you need to take to maximize the return on investment of your laser.
Gil Poznanski | LightBurn for Learning: How to Engage Students of All Ages
Lightburn allows amazing access to laser technology. Join Gil as he discusses how you can engage students of all ages in learning LightBurn and lasers, using real world examples from primary, secondary, and tertiary classrooms and Makespaces around the world, allowing anyone to harness power of LightBurn safely and effectively.
Dominic Morrow | CO2 Laser Cutter Alignment: Tips and Tricks
Dominic will explain how to approach the alignment of large CO2 Laser cutters, and stay safe in the process!
Jessica Trueblood | How To Be an Etsy SEO Master
Ready to take your Etsy shop to the next level? Join Jessica for a deep dive into the "secrets" of mastering Etsy SEO. Learn how to boost your shop's visibility, optimize your listings for search, and drive more traffic — all using proven, up to date strategies. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned seller, this session will give you the tools you need to stand out on Etsy's competitive marketplace. Don't miss it!
Katie Devlin | Mastering Variable Text in LightBurn
In this presentation, you'll discover how to use Variable Text in LightBurn to streamline and enhance your CO2 laser projects. We'll cover the step-by-step process of setting up and using Variable Text, making it easy to personalize each project efficiently. Learn how to automate text changes, save time on repetitive tasks, and keep your work consistent across multiple items. Whether you're just starting or looking to refine your skills, this session will provide valuable insights and techniques to elevate your laser crafting business.
LightBurn Live Q&A
Members of the LightBurn team will take questions from the audience. Have a project you've been struggling with? A tool you can't wrap your head around? Now's your chance to ask!
Lis Olson | The 5 Keys to SVG Selling Success
Diversifying your income with SVG sales is easier than you think! Join Liz as she reveals the patterns and trends she's discovered from generating multiple six figures from her own SVG file shop. In this no-holds-barred session, she'll walk you through the 5 keys to SVG selling success, providing you with actionable insights and proven strategies to start or grow with file sales. By the end of this talk, you'll have a clear roadmap to creating a full-time income from SVG sales.
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