The forum held in partnership also with the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) and Saudi Taekwondo Federation.

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue delivered an opening speech as well as IOC President Thomas Bach and President of the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee H.R.H. Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki Al Faisal Al Saud.

In his speech Choue spoke about the development of women’s sports in Saudi Arabia, highlighting the country's female taekwondo athletes who have won nine international medals.

He also indicated that Saudi Arabia would organize the first open women’s taekwondo championship in February 2021.

During his speech Bach spoke of the IOC's drive to achieve gender equality in sport, as well as praising the conference saying it "represents evidence, leadership and a spirit of innovation to enhance the role of women in sporting societies."

Al Saud was the next speaker and talked of how he believed it was necessary "to include sports in recovery plans against the various crises that the world faces" adding that sports had shown the "diversity of benefits and contributions that could be offered to human societies

Al Saud also highlighted sporting initiatives that had empowered female participation in the Kingdom saying that: "We now have more than 25 federations that have women’s national teams, and 30 federations have at least one woman holding the position of director on a Board of Directors.

The second day of the forum featured seven sessions which started with Adwaa Al-Arifi, Board member at SAOC, doing a talk entitled "Women Leaders in Sports Organisations."

Al-Arifi spoke of how her sports journey began with small dreams of practicing sports with her friends and how she went on to establish the first Saudi women's sports team in the Kingdom in 2006.

She also highlighted the benefits of Vision 2030, which she said "is paving the way for many girls to achieve their ambitions."

The second session of the day was entitled "My Experience with Taekwondo", led by IOC Athletes Commission member Miriam Pavril.

Pavril spoke of how she had practiced many different sports starting at the age of six, and had been training for four hours a day when she was 15 years old, which she said helped her to become an Olympic champion in later life.

Among the other sessions was one entitled "Women in Para Taekwondo", where Lisa Gjessing, a four-times para-taekwondo world champion, spoke of her transformation from being an Olympic athlete to a Paralympic athlete.

Gjinseng said her ambition did not stop when she lost an arm to cancer in 2012, and told of how she continued her passion for sports until she achieved success.

In one of the other sessions entitled "Empowering Women in the International Taekwondo Federation", Sarah Stevenson, chair of the World Taekwondo for All Committee talked about how training, continuous development and patience, helped her become Britain's first ever Olympic taekwondo medalist, when she won bronze at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.