Top Quark Prospects at LHCb

The LHCb detector at the LHC offers an exciting and unexplored region of phase space for top quark measurements. The detector's unique coverage, along with its excellent vertexing and particle identification capabilities, pave the way for a host of interesting measurements. Tevatron experiments have reported 2-3 sigma deviations from SM expectations in the ttbar forward-backward asymmetry, and it is hoped that the LHCb detector can offer a new way to explore these sectors. This talk documents some of the latest top measurements, and the potential impact that LHCb could have in this sector, as well as the steps necessary to achieve these. Finally, a preliminary cross-section measurement performed on a 2 fb-1 sample collected in 2012 at a collision energy of 8 TeV is presented.