Parléview served as the event planning and operational delivery lead for the Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (Urban) detection trials Sandbox, delivered in downtown Ottawa in proximity to Parliament Hill as part of the IDEaS program. The week-long program required the transformation of an active, high-density urban environment into a tightly controlled, scientifically valid testing site—without disrupting public life or compromising safety. Parléview coordinated the end-to-end planning and execution of multi-location testing across two ground-level sites, mid- and high-rise balconies, and rooftops within the Kent, Queen, Sparks, and Wellington Street corridors. This included access control, scheduling, and deconfliction across multiple buildings and elevations, ensuring that innovators, defence scientists, Canadian Armed Forces personnel, police, and security partners could operate within a synchronized and secure framework.

 

Working in close coordination with the City of Ottawa, Ottawa Police Service, Transport Canada, and federal stakeholders, Parléview supported the operationalization of a detect-only testing model, ensuring all trials complied with regulatory, airspace, and public safety requirements. Drone operations were fully registered and conducted under approved conditions, with testing limited to safe detection demonstrations suitable for populated urban settings and future public-event protection scenarios. The event brought together 22 national and international Innovators to demonstrate urban drone detection technologies in a controlled, real-world environment, while safely integrating defence, security, government, and international stakeholders within an active city core.

 

Parléview held full accountability for the end-to-end management of innovator participation, overseeing the coordinated international and domestic shipping, customs clearance, brokerage, and secure handling of sensitive and proprietary technologies. This included advance logistics planning with each innovator, compliance with cross-border and controlled-goods requirements, real-time shipment tracking, contingency planning for delays or inspections, and secure on-site receipt, storage, and deployment of equipment. Parléview ensured all technologies were delivered, staged, and operated accordingly.

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The program hosted more than 500 attendees across a highly distributed footprint, including the rooftop of the C.D. Howe Institute (a government-controlled facility), four dedicated floors and rooftop activations at the Ottawa Marriott Downtown, and two outdoor test sites located at the National Archives grounds and an Impark parking facility. Outdoor activations included 10 tents, 12 mobile trailers, privacy fencing, 3 generators, 2 scissor lifts, and 3 sets of mobile washroom infrastructures, all planned and deployed by Parléview.