11# June Dershewitz (Co-founder: InvestInData, Web Analytics Wednesdays, Former President: Digital Analytics Association) on 25 Years of Watching Analysts Reinvent Themselves, Why Data Leaders Are Betting Their Own Money on the AI ​​Stack, and What Community Building Taught Her About the Skills That Actually Survive Every Disruption

In this episode of Knowledge Distillation, Katrin Ribant talks with June Dershewitz – a pioneering analytics leader who has been at the center of the data community for over two decades. June started her career in web analytics in 1999, co-founded Web Analytics Wednesdays (the industry gathering that launched a thousand local analytics communities), served as President of the Board of the Digital Analytics Association, and has led analytics and data governance teams at some of the largest media and entertainment platforms in the world. Now, as co-founder of InvestInData – a collective of 50+ Chief Data Officers and VPs of Data who angel invest in early-stage data startups – she sits at the unique intersection of practitioner, community builder, and investor. Together they explore what 25 years of analytics evolution teaches you about the current AI transformation, how angel investing from the practitioner seat gives you a fundamentally different lens on which AI tools will actually matter, and why the community-building instinct that drove Web Analytics Wednesdays is more relevant now than ever as analysts figure out what the AI ​​Analyst role actually looks like. June shares her perspective on scaling data teams through every major disruption – from the early days of web measurement through big data, real-time analytics, and now agentic AI – and what she’s learned about the human skills that no technology cycle has managed to automate away. All episodes on our website: www.ask-y.ai/knowledge-distillation-podcast Learn more about ASK-Y: www.ask-y.ai