The phrase "trigger the conversation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you would like to start a dialogue between two or more people. For example, "Let's trigger the conversation by introducing ourselves."
As a trigger for the conversation, often.
By triggering the conversations early in the course of the illness, our goal is for patients with serious illness and their families to be able to consider decisions about their lives and choices about medical care with adequate time for reflection and discussion.
Less sophisticated critics decried Columbia's "self-centered Care Bears"; sharper observers objected to how the trigger-warning conversation disguised the larger preoccupations of the text, veiling ethical questions of force and consent in the language of personal harm.
Take the conversation triggered last week by the publication of a study by the University of Manchester and the Migrants Rights Networkk, which showed the power of the "migrant vote".
Last week, Mr. Clapper told a roomful of intelligence contractors that the conversation triggered by Mr. Snowden's leaks "actually needed to happen," and may represent a "good side" to what intelligence officials consider a calamitous security breach.
The Track triggers a process where the conversation flow is reversed, through the conversation hub (FriendFeed) and then back out to Twitter and Facebook for completeness.
Dependent on the participants' responses, further trigger questions were used if the conversation came to a halt or if the participant wandered off the subject of footwear for too long a period of time.
The tentative teleconsultation protocol described in the following paragraph was also used as a trigger for conversation during the interviews.
It is also conceivable that once the promotion has triggered interest in a hashtag, the conversation is sustained by the same mechanisms that characterize organic diffusion.
However, the conversation itself triggered a strong increase of the online gamma power index.
