Symposium

symposium n, pl -siums or sia 1 a conference or meeting for the discussion of some subject, esp an academic topic or social problem ...

Something that's playing on my mind at work at the moment because I'm in the process of organising our annual symposium and things aren't going as smoothly as they might in terms of finding speakers :-(

(Looks like a simple blip but it actually took me a long time to get the focus on it right. The word above symposium is quite close, so much so that I couldn't find a focus setting that made symposium sharp and the other word blurred. In the end I had to use the GIMP blur tool and do it manually.)