CP Violation at LHCb: early results and prospects

The LHCb experiment is designed for flavor physics in the charm and beauty quark sectors, aiming to unveil indirect New Physics effects by means of precision measurements of CP-violation and rare decays of heavy hadrons. Hadrons containing c and b quarks are abundantly produced at the LHC, thanks to the large production cross sections, even at the reduced energy s = 7 TeV of the 2010-2011 LHC run. We will give a concise presentation of the LHCb CP-violation physics program, with some emphasis on the early measurements with heavy flavors.