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After leaving [[Canada Post]] in 2007, Laporte was hired as Chief Informatics Officer for [[Industry Canada]].<ref name="auto"/> Laporte held this role for two years before becoming Executive Director, Integrated Technologies Office within Industry Canada.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://montrealspace2019.sched.com/speaker/sylvain_laporte.2046q9fz |title=Sylvain Laporte's schedule for Montreal Space Symposium 2019 |website=montrealspace2019.sched.com |access-date=2020-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605220033/https://montrealspace2019.sched.com/speaker/sylvain_laporte.2046q9fz |archive-date=2020-06-05 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In April of 2011, Laporte was hired as [[Chief executive officer]] of the [[Canadian Intellectual Property Office]], which he held for 4 years until March of 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://2016.spacesymposium.org/speakers/sylvain-laporte.html |title=Sylvain Laporte | 32nd Space Symposium |website=2016.spacesymposium.org |access-date=2020-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605204448/http://2016.spacesymposium.org/speakers/sylvain-laporte.html |archive-date=2020-06-05 |url-status=live }}</ref> In March 2015, Sylvain Laporte was appointed as the 11th [[President of the Canadian Space Agency]], taking over from Luc Brule who was serving as Interim President. On October the 21st 2019, Sylvain Laporte appeared at the International Astronautical Federation alongside representatives from the [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]], [[European Space Agency]], [[Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency]], [[Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre]], [[Roscosmos]] and the [[Indian Space Research
He announced in 2020 that he would leave the role of President of the Canadian Space Agency.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://spaceq.ca/canadian-space-agency-president-sylvain-laporte-is-leaving-after-serving-one-term/ |title=Canadian Space Agency President Sylvain Laporte is leaving after serving one term |date=March 13, 2020}}</ref> When having a conversation about leaving the role of President of the Canadian Space Agency, he said that it was “was probably one of the most difficult conversations that took me the longest to figure out.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spaceq.ca/sylvain-laporte-on-why-hes-leaving-the-canadian-space-agency/|title=Sylvain Laporte on why he’s leaving the Canadian Space Agency|date=April 14, 2020}}</ref>
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