The phrase "in reference to the conversation" is correct and usable in written English.
You would use it when referring back to a prior conversation that you had with another person. For example: "I wanted to thank you again for the advice you gave me in reference to the conversation we had last week."
"When you start to talk to strategics it becomes a different conversation," he said in reference to the size of the round. .
Sophist contains, in its opening pages, a reference to the conversation of Parmenides and perhaps Plato is thus signaling to his readers that they should bring to bear on Sophist the lessons that are to be drawn from Parmenides.
Update: I was in touch with Alfred Lin this morning, and he noted, in reference to my conversation with Andreessen, that he has never said expressly that Airbnb won't reach the valuation of Uber.
I told him we don't really have any direct contact with Israel," Congregation Gates of Heaven's employee Karthryn Laws said in court on Monday in reference to her April 2012 conversation with Crawford.
Details of the schedule follow and then, in an apparent reference to the earlier conversation, the memo says: "Everything should be monitored and checked back if need be.
"I had several conversations," Cashman said in reference to Pavano's agent, Tom O'Connell.
In his now notorious conversation with Billy Bush, Trump said, in reference to actress Arianne Zucker, "I've got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her" suggesting the Don is more concerned about his breath than being thought of as a sex pest.
At one point in their taped conversation, Evans told Miner, in reference to recordings involving Strickland, "I just don't understand why we shouldn't say they've all been recycled".
"We've had this conversation in past years," she said, in reference to concerns about a dip in applications and enrollment, "and then it didn't happen.
Create an "in" to the conversation.
He slipped in a reference to his conversations with world leaders at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, an exclusive event where he used to be a regular attendee.
