AI and the data lake (w/ Lauren Anderson)

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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AI and the data lake (w/ Lauren Anderson) is an episode from The Analytics Engineering Podcast by dbt Labs, Inc..

This episode is 53:44 long.

This episode was published on Jan 11, 2026.

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