PyData London 2026

Carol Chen

Carol Chen is a Community Architect at Red Hat, having led several upstream communities including InstructLab, Ansible and ManageIQ. She has been actively involved in open source communities while working for Jolla and Nokia previously. In addition, she also has experiences in software development/integration in her 12 years in the mobile industry. Carol has spoken at events around the world, including AI_Dev in Paris and OpenSearchCon in Shanghai. On a personal note, Carol plays the Timpani in an orchestra in Tampere, Finland, where she now calls home.


Session

06-05
09:00
90min
Learn to Unlock Document Intelligence with Open-Source AI
Mingxuan Zhao, Abby Tse, Carol Chen

Unlocking the full potential of AI starts with your data, but real-world documents come in countless formats and levels of complexity. This session will give you hands-on experience with Docling, an open-source Python library designed to convert complex documents into AI-ready formats. Learn how Docling simplifies document processing, enabling you to efficiently harness all your data for downstream AI and analytics applications.

Doddington Forum