Oct 9–11, 2026
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New York City
First time in San Francisco. The room doubled. The Golden Gate group photo became the era's defining frame.
MACF became MNG Summit. The three-day template was born — tours Friday, panels and NHUB Saturday, keynote and career fair Sunday. Every summit since traces back to this format.
SAN FRANCISCO — March 18–20, 2016. The 2016 gathering rebranded from "MACF" to "MNG Summit" and adopted the three-day model that has anchored every subsequent edition: company tours on Friday, panels and NHUB on Saturday, keynote and career fair on Sunday. The organizing team was led by Nominsuren Munkhuu, who would be elected the first formal president that September.
The flagship keynote came in by video from Ulaanbaatar across a fourteen-hour time difference. D. Khulan, founder of Lhamour and director of Natural Essentials LLC, opened with three threads on starting a venture, expecting hurdles, and staying true to the dream. Saturday's “Employment in Mongolia” panel brought together T. Bilegee (CEO, Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi), G. Gerelmaa (Capital City Department of Labor), Ts. Erdenebaatar (Mongolian Employers' Federation), and B. Belgutei (Youth Employment Central Bureau) for a frank conversation across state, private, and public sectors.
The sixth edition of NHUB ("Надад Хэлэх Үг Байна") crowned E. Saruul of Indiana University with 191 of 200 points across eight scoring criteria. Cisco and Facebook opened their Bay Area campuses on Friday; twelve employers worked the career-fair floor Sunday, with Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi serving as title sponsor. The 2016 weekend established the template the organization still uses a decade later.
