MNG Summit 2023

Building Resilience

March 4-5, 2023 | The Bass, Miami, Florida

MNG Summit 2023

 
  • At the MNG Summit 2023, you'll have the opportunity to hear from keynote speakers, engage in panel discussions, participate in interactive workshops, and network with like-minded individuals. Our goal is to provide a space where you can gain insights, skills, and confidence to build resilience and achieve your career goals. The event will take place on March 4-5 at The Bass in Miami, FL.

  • MNG Summit is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing the next generation of Mongolians worldwide. We focus on career development, networking, and bridging employment gaps. At our annual summit, we encourage ambition, celebrate successes and failures, and inspire all attendees and speakers alike through a highly curated program.

  • The Bass is Miami Beach's renown contemporary art museum. Replete with historical significance, The Bass was founded in 1964 by the City of Miami Beach, the museum was established after the donation of a private collection by residents John and Johanna Bass and opened in what was formerly the Miami Beach Public Library and Art Center, a 1930s Art Deco building designed by Russell Pancoast.

Theme: Building Resilience

 
  • Join us for an empowering and exciting two-day in-person event, the MNG Summit 2023 "Building Resilience". This year will provide practical strategies and techniques for building a professional network, navigating cultural transitions, and maintaining a positive mindset.

    At the MNG Summit 2023, you'll have the opportunity to hear from keynote speakers, engage in panel discussions, participate in interactive workshops, and network with like-minded individuals. Our goal is to provide a space where you can gain insights, skills, and confidence to build resilience and achieve your career goals.

  • You'll have the opportunity to reflect on your journey and identify your personal strengths and weaknesses through interactive workshops, keynote speakers, and panel discussions. You'll also learn about the important role of NHUB in supporting young Mongolian professionals and early graduates. You'll learn how to reframe challenges as opportunities and develop your communication and negotiation skills.

  • You'll recharge your mind, body, and spirit with workshops on self-care, mindfulness, stress management, and diversity and inclusion in the workplace. You'll hear from keynote speakers on resilience, perseverance, and leadership and participate in interactive workshops that will help you restart and take action toward achieving your career goals.

    This is a unique opportunity to network with like-minded individuals, gain new insights and skills, and take your personal and professional development to the next level. Register now and start your journey toward a more resilient and prosperous future!

 

Agenda

Day 1
Reflect & Reframe

Saturday, March 4

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Registration

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Welcome & Introduction

Reflect

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction meditation by Surenmaa

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Panel discussion on navigating cultural transition with Panelist - Ideruugan G, Sodontuya N, Badmaa P

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Contortionist Performance

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Picnic Lunch & Networking

Nadad Heleh Ug Baina “NHUB” team distribution

Reframe

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Keynote speaker on resilience and perseverance - Bolor B (joining remotely)

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Reframing Challenges as opportunities - Tulgat V

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Tour of The Bass, art workshop

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Group networking game

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Break

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Time for dinner

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM: Networking happy hour

Day 2
Recharge & Restart

Sunday, March 5

Recharge

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Yoga in the park - led by Anna

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Keynote speaker - Tserenna E

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Investing in Mongolia - Jim D

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Picnic Lunch & Networking

Restart

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: NHUB Team Presentations

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Interactive workshop on effective communication and negotiation skills - Saraa B

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Closing Remarks and Networking

*Agenda details subject to change

We are ending earlier on Sunday to accommodate attendees flying out that day.

Pre-Summit
Optional Miami Tour

Friday, March 3rd

12:00 - 7:30PM: Tour of Miami

  • Brickell

  • Downtown Miami

  • Bayside

  • South Beach

  • Boat Tour departs at 5PM

Tennis class led by Jargal in the evening

*Tour will be led by local volunteers and participants will cover their own food, drinks, boat tour ticket ($35), and uber ride (~$10).

Speakers

 
  • Tserennadmid is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, a premier global bank headquartered in the United States. Tserennadmid joined the Firm in 2002 and is currently the CFO for the global Institutional Equity Division. Tserennadmid earned her Bachelor’s degree with a major in Accounting from Baruch College in 2001 and earned an MBA from New York University in 2006. She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with her husband and two young sons.

  • Mr. Dwyer is an Independent Director of several Mongolian-based finance sector entities – Golomt Bank JSC, Mandal Daatgal JSC, Mongolian Fintech Group and Mongolia Growth Group. He is Partner/Board Member of Mongolian Business Database and Director of Mongolia Education Foundation.

    Mr. Dwyer was a New York-based investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions for 30 years and completed over 100 M&A transactions. In addition, he founded and managed M&A departments for two major investment banking firms: Shearson Loeb Rhoades and UBS-North America.

    Mr. Dwyer first visited Mongolia in 2001 to represent the Government of Mongolia as lead investment banker for the privatization of its largest bank, Trade & Development Bank. Thereafter, he served as lead investment banker for the privatization of the largest Government-owned largest retail bank, Khan Bank. He co-founded the Business Council of Mongolia (BCM) and served as Executive Director from its formation in 2007 to April 2016.

    Mr. Dwyer received his MBA from Columbia Graduate School of Business (Columbia University) and served as Chairman of Columbia Business School Alumni Association.cription text goes here

  • Bolor-Erdene Battsengel is a Policy fellow at the University of Oxford and Former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications of Mongolia. She worked as State Secretary for the same Ministry and Chairwoman of the Government of Mongolia’s Communication and Information Technology Authority. She is youngest female Vice Minister to have appointed in the history of the Government of Mongolia.

    As the youngest leader in the current Cabinet, she crafted the four-year plan to transform Mongolia into a “Digital Nation”. In the first year, Ms.Battsengel launched the ‘E-Mongolia’ platform that transformed the country by introducing 1800 government services available online. As result, the platform notably reduced red-tape bureaucracy and corruption while ensuring inclusiveness to serve those live as nomads in the countryside as well as vulnerable communities of the countries. Now she is sharing this platform and experience with many other developing countries and helping them to deliver government services during the pandemic.

    Raised in the countryside herself, Ms.Battsengel started the “Girls for Coding” program which trains girls from vulnerable families in remote areas who do not have computer or internet access. So far, the program trained 80 girls who already offered jobs at varies companies.

    She studied public policy at Oxford and previously worked at the World Bank, United Nations, Asian Development Bank, and Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom. She was currently selected as Next Generation Leader by the TIME Magazine, Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 and Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

  • Badmaa, CPA, is an Assurance Manager at PwC based in Chicago. She has 6.5 years of experience in providing assurance services to clients in the Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences, Financial Service, and Industrial Product Sectors. She serves public and private companies with well know brand and broad international reach and specializes in audit of financial statements and internal controls under AICPA and PCAOB standards.

    Badmaa works with her team to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. She oversees assurance teams and focuses on leveraging the latest technology to reduce manual testing. She led training sessions targeting junior auditors and coaches others ongoing basis.

    She holds Master of Accounting Science (Leadership) and Bachelor of Science in Accountancy degrees from Northern Illinois University.

  • Tulgat is a two-time brain cancer survivor with a mission to help as many people as he can in his lifetime and beyond.

    His purpose for helping others led to him becoming a well-known Hip-Hop artist in Mongolia from his movie, "Margaashgui" played by Rokit Bay, and a hit song released about a decade ago called "Microphonii Ard". As a struggling artist, he fell in love with sales and personal development, which paved the way to open his own business called, Chirpish, a Customer Service agency for eCommerce brands, today operating with 75 employees.

  • In 2010 Paloma created PalomARTS Inc, encompassing the multidisciplinary aspect of her artistry into all the different services and possibilities of her art work. Paloma works in music therapy to children of all ages and has been a dedicated educator at The Bass for over 9 years.

  • Ideruugan Galbaatar is a second-year Master of Public Policy student at Georgetown’s McCourt School for Public Policy and a consultant at the World Bank. Before Georgetown, Ideruugan worked at the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Mongolia, where he implemented multiple projects to advance U.S. foreign policy in the East Asia Pacific region. He is interested in organizational strategy navigating international circumstances, and building external relationships to advance strategic positions. Ideruugan holds a B.S. degree in aircraft maintenance engineering from the Mongolian University of Science and Technology and a B.A. in business administration from the University of Finance and Economics of Mongolia.

  • Saranbyamba B is a Candidate Channels Advisor and Contingent Workforce Assignment Manager at Meta (formerly Facebook) and author of "Цахиурын хөндийд хүрэх зам." She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2018 with Env Econ & Policy B.S. degree and joined Meta in 2019. Previously, she worked as a full-cycle recruiter and helped build talent pipelines for startups and major tech companies such as Facebook, Samsung, Airbnb, and Sapient. Between 2018 and 2022, she acted as a board member and referrals program manager at 501(c) non-profit organization MITPU (Mongolian I.T. Professionals in the U.S.). She hosted Season 4 Humans of MITPU Podcast. In December 2022, she published her very first book "Цахиурын хөндийд хүрэх зам," focused on navigating others to start their career in tech.

  • Tara Strickstein-Lewis is an artist and scholar with over 15 years of experience in museum education and programming. She holds a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, an MFA from University of Chicago, and completed a PhD program at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied viewer experience and the efficacy of mindfulness in social practice.

  • Sodontuya is an entrepreneur, a CFA charterholder, and a MBA graduate. She was named one of the 100 Best & Brightest MBAs worldwide by Poets & Quants in 2022. She has published four books in Mongolia. Now she works as a Vice President at the Risk and Compliance department of Bank of New York Mellon.”

  • Surenmaa is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction meditation teacher certified by Brown University Mindfulness Center. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Public Health in epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health. Before graduate school, she worked at Kaiser, Gilead Sciences and UCSF mostly working on gene therapy clinical trials and mental health research. Her current academic research focuses on the effects of mindfulness interventions on individuals with high blood pressure. She has been practicing mindfulness meditation and yoga for over a decade and she is passionate about helping people live life more mindfully.

“I Have A Voice”

 

About “NHUB”

One of the key events that is organized at MNG Summit is the annual “Надад Хэлэх Үг Байна”/ “I Have a Voice” competition, a platform for Mongolian students and young professionals across the United States to bring forth ideas to help solve issues affecting Mongolia.

How to sign up for it.

To participate, you will need to compete as a team. Up to 4 teams with 4 members are allowed to compete. To register for the competition, you may indicate your interest when you register online or sign up at the event. If you do not have a team or need more members to join your team, you can join a team and recruit members on the day of the competition. No need to submit prior research or abstracts.

Proud to Partner with Carib Sales, LLC.

We are thrilled to have Carib Sales, LLC. as our sponsor for MNG Summit 2023 in Miami. Serving customers for more than four decades, Carib Sales, LLC. is a family-owned wholesaler of personal care products, providing an array of products that address not only Ethnic Hair & Skin Care, but also a variety of General Market items for personal care as well as household needs. We are grateful for their support and look forward to a successful event together. Carib Sales is hiring for a number of roles. If you would like to be considered for a position, please email your resume to jmudgil@caribsalesllc.com.

Miami Tour

(Optional)

 

Friday, March 3

12:00 - 7:30PM: Tour of Miami

  • Brickell

  • Downtown Miami

  • Bayside

  • South Beach

  • Boat Tour departs at 5PM

Tennis class led by Jargal in the evening

*Tour will be led by local volunteers and participants will cover their own food, drinks, boat tour ticket ($35), and uber ride (~$10).

Lodging

 

Finding Roommate

Do you need help finding a roommate to split the costs of lodging? Please fill out this form and we will help pair you with another attendee who is looking for a roommate as well. Note, below lodging options are just suggestions. If you feel comfortable booking elsewhere at a hotel or airbnb, please feel free to make your own accommodations.

https://forms.gle/we3raq9RPFGcR73E6

SBH South Beach Hotel

South Beach Hotel is a boutique hotel located in historic Collins Park. They are closest to our venue, The Bass Museum. We recommend attendees book this hotel for convenience.

Price: Standard double room (two full beds) for Friday 3/3 and Saturday 3/4 comes out to ~$725. If four people stay, it will be around $90-100 per person, per night.

Freehand Miami Hostel

The Freehand Miami hostel is about 15 minutes walk from our venue, The Bass. they offer quad style bunk beds as well as suites.

Price: This is the lowest cost option at ~$75 per person, per night.


MNG Summit 2023 T-shirt

Pre-purchase ahead of the event here: $20

MNG Summit Memories

We started off in 2014 and have been hosting MNG Summit annually across major cities including Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. We have had the pleasure inviting speakers from all walks of life to share their learnings with our guests. The MNG Summit includes an educational tour day where we visit top companies and unique local attractions with history in the hosting city. Below are some photos from past events: