"convening a workshop" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to organize and host a workshop. Example: The company's HR department is convening a workshop on effective communication skills for their employees next week.
On 12th March 2008, the Biotherapy Development Association convened a workshop to discuss issues faced by scientists and clinicians involved in the development of cancer vaccines.
On November 13 , 2013 the law library and law teaching series co-convened a workshop on tracking and promoting scholarship.
In April, Mr. Beilin convened a workshop here where Israeli and Palestinian officials traded insights with Irish and British experts in the Ulster conflict.
And so Cornell convened a workshop that I organized in June of 2012, where we drew a group of experts who all prepared assessments of what were the real drivers.
In April 2015 Mary Ann Smart convened a workshop at King's College London on her forthcoming book, Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy.
In fact it was an unofficial group.In an effort to help bridge the media divide, the Institute of South Asian Studies at NUS in May convened a workshop on the role of the press in India-China relations.
The Department of Agriculture in America this week convened a workshop of apiarists and federal and university scientists to suggest some answers.Colony collapse disorder, as the phenomenon has become known as, was first reported in America in mid-November 2006.
Ducking for cover, the cancer institute removed the fact sheet from its Web page and convened a workshop and two expert panels to re-evaluate the evidence, along with other reproductive issues.
The NCI convened a workshop to look at the evidence in February 2003, and concluded that the hypothesis was devoid of any supporting evidence and was political rather than medical in nature.
