Name: 4th Annual International Women's Day Luncheon
Start: 2026-03-06T11:30:00-03:30
End: 2026-03-06T14:00:00-03:30
Location: Delta Hotels by Marriott St. John's Conference Centre

4th Annual International Women's Day Luncheon

This event will directly support feminist charitable work in our community.
Featuring a keynote address from Sister Elizabeth Davis - WOMEN AND AI: ADVOCACY FOR INCLUSION.
We live in a world becoming increasingly influenced by and dependent on Artificial Intelligence (AI).
While AI has the potential to be a democratizing resource for women and other marginalized groups, it also has the potential to intensify gender biases and other inequities in our world and to further endanger our environment.
Presently, women are significantly underrepresented in the ownership, research, programming, training and shaping of AI.
In this session, we will explore together today’s realities and imagine more creative and effective ways to ensure that AI is imbued with women's perspectives, experiences, and values – that AI becomes a resource to shape a safer, more peaceful and more just world.
TICKETS:
$88.84 per person (includes $11.25 in HST and $25 charitable tax receipt)
Tables of 10 are available for $888.48 (includes $112.50 in HST and $250 charitable tax receipt)
MENU:
Roasted Chicken Supreme with Mushroom Sauce (no garlic in sauce) and Seasonal Veg and Potato followed by Dessert Squares for the table with Coffee/Tea.
*Vegan/GF/DF option: Vegetable Stir Fry upon advance request
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Elizabeth Davis is a Sister of Mercy from Newfoundland and Labrador. She has been engaged in ministry in education, health care administration, public policy, facilitation, governance, and leadership in religious life. She was Co-Chair of Health Accord NL(2019-2022), a visionary and directional study that guides Government to improve health through interventions in the social determinants of health and a rebalanced health system. Following one of the Health Accord recommendations, she carried out a study on “Data Governance and Artificial Intelligence” for Government (April 2024). She is chair of the Board of The Gathering Place (a community-based centre that provides health and social supports in an inclusive, low barrier setting to persons who are homeless or precariously housed).
She is a member of faculty for Biblical Studies at Queen’s College, St. John’s, NL. She is one the fifty-four women who were voting delegates for the Catholic Church’s Synodon Synodality at its sessions in October 2023 and October 2024 (the first group of women to be allowed to vote at such a Synod). She has a doctorate in theology (biblical studies) from the University of Toronto and Masters’ degrees from the University of Notre Dame (biblical studies) and the University of Toronto (health administration). She has received the Order of Canada, the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, and four honorary doctorates.