The Analytics Engineering Podcast

The Analytics Engineering Podcast goes deep with the practitioners and builders leading the shift in how data work gets done. Hosted by Tristan Handy, founder and CEO of dbt Labs, each episode is a conversation with the data engineers, analytics engineers, and technical leaders building in the agentic era. Topics include data transformation, AI in analytics, data architecture, and what it means to work with data at scale. For full show notes and transcript, head to roundup.getdbt.com. To reach our team, drop a note to podcast@dbtlabs.com.

The context engineering playbook (Claire Gouze) 07/02/2026

DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani) 06/18/2026

The Iceberg ecosystem today (w/ Anders Swanson) 03/08/2026

Apache Iceberg and the catalog layer (w/ Russell Spitzer) 01/25/2026

AI and the data lake (w/ Lauren Anderson) 01/11/2026

Inside Snowflake’s AI roadmap (w/ Chris Child) 12/14/2025

Building a multimodal lakehouse for AI (w/ Chang She) 11/23/2025

Agentic coding in analytics engineering (w/ Mikkel Dengsøe) 09/07/2025

Under the hood of Apache Iceberg (w/ Christian Thiel) 08/24/2025

The pragmatic guide to AI agents in the enterprise (w/ Sean Falconer) 08/03/2025

How Amazon S3 works (w/ Andy Warfield) 07/20/2025

From Docker to Dagger (w/ Solomon Hykes) 06/22/2025

The history and future of the data ecosystem (w/ Lonne Jaffe) 06/08/2025

Everything terminals (w/ Zach Lloyd) 05/25/2025

Why compilers matter (w/ Lukas Schulte) 05/11/2025

The evolution of databases (w/ Wolfram Schulte) 04/27/2025

Building a data team from the beginning (w/ Daniel Avancini) 01/26/2025

Data engineering at Snowflake (w/ Rahul Jain) 01/12/2025

The intersection of UI, exploratory data analysis, and SQL (w/ Hamilton Ulmer) 12/22/2024

Making data movement as reliable as electricity (w/ Taylor Brown) 12/08/2024

Data as an assembly line (w/ Cedric Chin) 11/17/2024

The data jobs to be done (w/ Erik Bernhardsson) 11/03/2024

Coalesce 2024 edition: What’s next for data teams? (w/ Scott Breitenother) 10/20/2024

The current state of the AI ecosystem (w/ Julia Schottenstein) 10/06/2024

Creating value from GenAI in the enterprise (w/ Nisha Paliwal) 09/22/2024

Developer productivity on GitHub Copilot (w/ Eirini Kalliamvakou) 09/08/2024

The rapid experimentation of AI agents (w/ Yohei Nakajima) 06/09/2024

Funnel analytics and AI models for event sequences (w/ Misha Panko) 05/26/2024

From Moneyball to Gen AI 05/12/2024

Being Pro-Human in the AI Era 04/21/2024