The Analytics Engineering Podcast · 2026-01-11 · 54 min
Tristan talks with Lauren Anderson, Senior Director for Okta's Enterprise Data Platform. Lauren shares how identity sits at the center of two seismic shifts in data - AI agents and the open data lake - and why central governance and a shared semantic layer are critical. Lauren lays out how analytics engineers and data engineers should divide responsibilities as agents begin to write a growing share of analytical queries. For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to . The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.
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