The Annual meeting was attended by AEB CEO Tadzio Schilling and Bogdan Plakhotnikov, Deputy CEO and GR Director.

Tadzio Schilling highly appreciated the competence of the SRC member companies in the field of regional GR, localization, business service centers and the work of business schools in key universities of the Krasnodar region. He noted that the theme of sustainable development chosen within the framework of the "Time for New Strategies" program 2021 is close to the issues of the AEB "Green Initiative".

Oleg Zharko made a report on the activities of the AEB  Southern Regional Committee Steering Group in 2020 and told about planned committee activity for 2021. During the 2020th, all the committee's events and meetings were transferred into an online format, the Business School continued its work, cross-committee events were held with other AEB committees, and the number of publications about the committee's activities in the media increased by 2 times.

The participants of the meeting supported the development of the committee's activities in the Rostov region and noted the close cooperation with the administration of the Krasnodar region.