DISCOVERY CAFÉ Lecture Series – Flying High – Canada’s Future Low Altitude Economy – Dr. Jeremy Laliberté, Carleton University

When: Thursday, November 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Where: Blackburn Community Hall, 190 Glen Park Drive

Admission is free, no registration is required, people of all ages are welcome, and refreshments will be served.

Canada has historically been a leading aerospace country, with one of the largest traditional aerospace sectors relative to population. However, change is coming in the form of “advanced air mobility”, representing one of the most disruptive shifts in the global aerospace sector since the introduction of the jet engine. Advanced air mobility, or AAM, includes well-known technologies such as military and recreational drones, as well as less prominent advances such as pilotless air taxis, wide-scale use of autonomous delivery drones, novel vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and electrically powered aircraft, among others. Dr. Jeremy Laliberté, from Carleton’s Advanced Aircraft Design Laboratory, will share recent advances in this emerging field and discuss the impact on Canada’s traditional aerospace sector and the broader Canadian economy as low-altitude advanced air mobility technologies take flight.

Dr. Laliberté is a Professor and Associate Chair – Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and leads the Advanced Aircraft Design Laboratory. Prior to joining Carleton in 2008, he was a Research Officer at the NRC Aerospace Research Centre from 2001-2008 in the Structures and Materials Performance Laboratory. His research focuses on the design, manufacturing, and testing of advanced aerospace systems, including sustainable aircraft, remotely piloted aircraft systems, and other novel platforms, in collaboration with government and industry partners. From 2019 to 2026, he was Program Director for the multi-university NSERC-CREATE Uninhabited aircraft systems Training, Innovation, and Leadership Initiative (UTILI) with multiple Canadian and International academic, government, and industry partners to train Canadian graduate students in the safe operation of modern drone systems.

Questions & Suggestions? Please email barbara@blackburnhamlet.ca.