Our objective is to provide the forum for presenting strategic information on merging technologies, market trends, research findings, operating applications and technical solutions for a wide variety of industries. We have a particular concentration on technologies that fall within the broad category of automatic identification.

CB Conferences is part of the CB Group USA that provides technical/marketing consulting and conferencing/trade show services for products and services that are associated with emerging technologies in the automatic identification industry.

The company has focused on the automatic identification industry since 1985 when it produced its landmark industry report on the North American Bar Code Market. Since then, CB Group USA has conducted numerous market studies and related conferences/trade shows worldwide with a concentration on the North America and Europe regions.

CB staff members are selected for their specific knowledge and experiences with the various technical topics under consideration. George Gilfoil is the managing director of CB GroupUSA. . His strategic insights have been quoted in many leading trade journals, including Automatic ID News, Beverage Aisle, Grocery Marketing Magazine, Industry Week, Labels & Labeling, Managing Automation, Modern Materials Handling and Packaging Technology & Engineering.

For the past twenty years George has consulted for Fortune 1000 firms in the areas of strategic planning and technical/marketing analysis with emphasis on automatic identification technologies  CB GroupUSA clients for consulting and conference programs are located in No. America, Europe and the Far East. 

George graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an MS degree in Industrial Management (Sloan) and from Tufts University with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering.