Beauty97 conference summary

CP-violation is one of the least understood phenomena in our field. There are major experimental programs in all high-energy laboratories around the world which will hopefully remedy this within the next decade. The study of CP-violating effects in B meson decays will allow stringent tests of the Standard Model to be made and may point the way to New Physics. The Beauty97 conference provided a forum for these experiments to discuss their physics potential and experimental challenges relating to these studies. This paper reviews the ongoing and future experimental B-physics projects. I will summarize the status and future plans of these projects, as well as the highlights of the physics and key R&D results presented at the conference. At the end, a critical comparison of the CP-violation B experiments will be given.