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conferences

Kyle Brooks presents leadership session at

Google Government and Education Summit

On November 3rd, Senior AVP Kyle Brooks participated in Google’s “Government and Education Summit,” presenting a live,
30-minute talk entitled “A Clean Sheet for Document Management” during one of the industry event’s Leadership Sessions.

Along with co-presenter Alexis Bonnell, a Senior Business
Executive and the Emerging Technology Evangelist for
Google’s Public Sector, Kyle discussed how, at the onset of
the pandemic, the U.S. Department of State (DoS) looked
for ways to transform their processes and accelerate the
delivery of critical digital resources and benefits to their
global constituents. While many government agencies that
traditionally relied on paper document processing struggled to
automate data capture for document processing at scale, DoS
and others applied artificial intelligence (AI), using tools such
as Google Cloud DocAI, to allow them to make faster data
decisions while maintaining the highest level of data accuracy
to meet and exceed constituent expectations.
Kyle has supported DoS and its federal financial management systems over the past 13 years. He specializes in business process
reengineering, robotic process automation (RPA), and IT-driven project management. Over the past three years, Kyle has been
leading MIL’s efforts at the Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services to establish and grow an RPA and hyper-
automation program.

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