Christian Schmitz from SALTO interviewed Ashley Proctor on the occasion of her marking two decades in the industry in addition to the upcoming Coworking Alliance Summit. Beginning with Xpace in 2004, one of Canada’s first coworking spaces, Proctor went on to found Creative Blueprint, develop multiple coworking alliances, and launch significant projects including the world’s first Coworking Health Insurance Plan and the 105,000-square-foot 312 Main community hub in Vancouver.

As co-founder of the Coworking Alliance Summit, she reinforced the importance of maintaining the movement’s core values of community, collaboration, openness, accessibility, and sustainability while adapting to accommodate both independent workers and corporate teams in this evolving landscape of flexible work.

Ashley Proctor the force behind things like Coworking Canada, Creative Blueprint and The Coworking Alliance Summit joined Sophie Wade on the Transforming Work podcast, digging into what coworking is and how it’s evolved over the last 2 decades.

Sam Poler digs into coworking alliances, and the Coworking Alliance Summit, with Bernie Mitchell on the Coworking Values Podcast.

Save the date: The Coworking Alliance Summit is back in 2025, on the 12th of March.

I shared a summary of what was discussed at the 2024 Coworking Alliance Summit, and who was "in the room" if you will.

In short, we dug into land trusts, building multi-brand private/public partnerships, what the opposite of loneliness is, hacks for owning the coworking narrative outside our bubbles, IDEA playbooks, ending the lack of diversity on industry stages, and so much more.