The event at Kingspan Stadium began with a breakfast, followed by a panel discussion about women in the workplace, role models, and female involvement across sport.
Panelists included Catherine Gallagher (Senior Manager, Deloitte), Shane McDermott (Director, Deloitte), Paula Stewart (Chair of IRFU Ulster Branch Women and Girls' Committee), Rebecca Spence and Jenna McCarlie from Queens University Hockey.
All reflected on their own personal experiences in dealing with adversity, inclusion and sexism in life.
Speaking after the event, panelist and the Chair of the IRFU's Ulster Branch Women and Girls' committee, Paula Stewart, said International Women's Day is important to reflect upon successes made, but to also look at improvement.
"It's really important. It's 112 years of International Women's Day today, so it's really good to see how far things have come along. If you look now at the roles that women play in key organisations, including in Ulster Branch. The Ulster Senior Women's team are real role models to young girls with an interest in rugby."
When asked about how she feels Ulster Rugby is progressing the Women's game, she says that steps are being made and seen.
"It's continuing to progress, we see a lot of success stories. We shared Sadhbh McGarth's story this morning and she is a real advocate for rugby and just a really good success story."
Stewart also believes having more major competitions such as the TikTok Women's Six Nations and Vodafone Interprovincial Championship help attract new female followers to the game.
"They have been fantastic. It's great to see the Celtic Challenge this year as a new competition, and we had ten Ulster players selected for that, good numbers and it's positive for our girls. The Six Nations is also coming up, a good competition and it's great that TikTok are supporting and bringing that social media element to it. The more it's shared, gets out there, then the more young girls want to play."
Stewart says that in her lifetime she has seen massive changes to the growth in the Women's game.
"There has been massive changes over the years, as long as I've been involved. Girls want to be involved and join their clubs. The youth structure, there are new leagues developing every year, it continues to grow."
She added that she hoped the event could help inspire and remind women of their achievements adding: "It was good to see a mixture of people from different backgrounds coming together to celebrate women."