Oct 9–11, 2026
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New York City
The original MNG Summit. A career fair that became a movement.
No name, no nonprofit, no sponsors. Five Mongolians decided to start something. The Mongolian-American Career Fair was born — a one-day room of real employers and real conversations.
CHICAGO — Spring 2014. Five Mongolians from four continents convened the first Mongolian-American Career Fair (MACF) in Chicago, an event built less on infrastructure than on conviction. There was no formal nonprofit, no board, and no corporate sponsorship behind the inaugural gathering. There was a venue, a recruiter panel, mock interviews, and a small room of Mongolian students and early-career professionals who had spent years working in isolation across the United States and beyond.
The founding team, anchored by Batchimeg Ganbaatar, Temuulen Tumurbat, and Bolormaa Tumurbat, ran the day themselves. The keynote speaker's name has not survived in the organization's records, and the recruiter panel's full lineup is still being reconstructed. What did survive is the format: a one-day career fair built around real employers and real conversations, run by Mongolians for Mongolians. Every summit that followed traces back to that first afternoon in Chicago.
In 2014, NHUB ("I Have Something to Say") was still operating as an independent competition outside the MACF format. The first MNG Summit happened this year, but NHUB would not formally join the format until 2016. If you participated in this era, please contribute records at archive@mngsummit.org.
