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Self-Paced Learning Festival: 09 January - 30 January 2026

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Published on ‎12-09-2025 03:56 AM by Databricks Employee | Updated on ‎01-02-2026 02:50 AM

🚀 Grow Your Skills and Earn Rewards! 🚀
 📅 Mark your calendar: January 09 – January 30, 2026

🎉 Join us for a three-week event dedicated to learning, upskilling, and advancing your career in data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. Whether you’re new to the field or aiming to deepen your knowledge, this is a great opportunity to invest in your professional development alongside a global community.

🎟️ Finish all of the modules listed within at least one of the self-paced learning pathways below within Customer Academy during the event window to receive:
 ✨ 50% discount on any Databricks Certification
 ✨ 20% discount on a yearly Databricks Academy Labs subscription

💬 All Incentives will be distributed to the eligible participants on 06 February 2026, after the event has concluded. These incentives will be sent to the email associated with your Customer Academy account.

⚠️ Note: Please ensure every component of the course is marked as completed (including any course introduction sections) during the eligibility window to confirm your learning pathway is properly recorded and to qualify for the incentives.

Start exploring our learning pathways below!

LEARNING PATHWAY

CUSTOMER ACADEMY ENROLLMENT LINKS

LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Data Engineer Learning Plan
  1. Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect
  2. Deploy Workloads with Lakeflow Jobs
  3. Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
  4. DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering

LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Data Engineer Learning Plan
  1. Databricks Streaming and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
  2. Databricks Data Privacy
  3. Databricks Performance Optimisation
  4. Automated Deployment with Databricks Asset Bundles

LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete both modules from the Data Analyst Learning Plan
  1. AI/BI for Data Analysts
  2. SQL Analytics on Databricks

LEARNING PATHWAY 4: ASSOCIATE ML PRACTITIONERS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Machine Learning Practitioner Learning Plan
  1. Data Preparation for Machine Learning
  2. Machine Learning Model Development
  3. Machine Learning Model Deployment
  4. Machine Learning Operations

LEARNING PATHWAY 5: PROFESSIONAL ML PRACTITIONERS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA

Please complete both modules from the Machine Learning Practitioner Learning Plan
  1. Advanced Machine Learning Operations
  2. Machine Learning at Scale

LEARNING PATHWAY 6:  GENERATIVE AI ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Generative AI Engineering Learning Plan
  1. Generative AI Solution Development
  2. Generative AI Application Development
  3. Generative AI Application Evaluation and Governance 
  4. Generative AI Application Deployment and Monitoring

LEARNING PATHWAY 7:  APACHE SPARK DEVELOPER

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Apache Spark™ Developer Learning Plan
  1. Introduction to Apache Spark™
  2. Developing Applications with Apache Spark™
  3. Stream Processing and Analytics with Apache Spark™
  4. Monitoring and Optimizing Apache Spark™ Workloads on Databricks

LEARNING PATHWAY 8:  DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 3 modules from the Data Warehousing Practitioner Learning Plan
  1. Data Warehousing with Databricks
  2. SQL Programming and Procedural Logic in Databricks
  3. Data Modelling Strategies

Happy learning! 📚🎓🧑‍💻🧑‍

#Databricks #MachineLearning #DataEngineering #AI #GenerativeAI #DataAnalysis #Upskill #Certification #TechCareers #LearningFestival #DataScience #AICommunity #DatabricksAcademy #DataSkills #AITraining #LearntoEarn



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Starts:
Fri, Jan 9, 2026 04:00 AM PST
Ends:
Sat, Jan 31, 2026 04:00 AM PST
696 Comments
StephanieAlba
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to HarshaSJ
a month ago

Click the link(s) in the right hand column (CUSTOMER ACADEMY ENROLLMENT LINKS)

Riyaz991228
New Contributor III
‎12-22-2025 10:55 PM

Will i be eligible for two discount coupons if i complete two courses during this period.

StephanieAlba
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Riyaz991228
a month ago

You will not be eligible for two discount coupons if you complete two courses during the Learning Festival. Regardless of how many courses you complete within the festival’s eligibility window, each participant is only eligible for one 50% discount certification voucher and one 20% discount coupon for Databricks Academy Labs.

aswinikanigiri
Visitor II
In response to StephanieAlba
a week ago

Where we can get the links for self paced modules to get the discount 

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tiago_h_dantas
New Contributor II
‎12-23-2025 07:05 AM

Quick questions:
Do we need to finish all the path, or jsut one path (normally the one linked to may day to day activities) is enough?

Each path will be one voucher or is going to be one voucher for one customer? 

tks in advance

StephanieAlba
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to tiago_h_dantas
a month ago

One voucher per customer.  You must "finish all of the modules listed within at least one of the self-paced learning pathways..."

annamalai_0308
Visitor II
In response to tiago_h_dantas
2 weeks ago

Completing one required path alone is enough 

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Reddaiah_K
New Contributor II
In response to tiago_h_dantas
2 weeks ago

I have completed the one course. When will get the discount coupon and also what is the process to claim it.

Racer445
Visitor II
In response to Reddaiah_K
a week ago

At the end of the period. Between Jan 30 and Feb 06

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eareyesga
New Contributor
‎12-23-2025 08:43 AM

I completed two modules during the previous Self-Learning Festival and two modules in the current one. Am I eligible for the coupon discount?

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StephanieAlba
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to eareyesga
3 weeks ago

Yes, as long as you finish the learning pathway during the window.

kp2592
Visitor II
‎12-23-2025 08:51 AM

hi is anyone else facing login issues today on Customer Academy portal with any of the learning links? I am not able to sign in today to the Academy portal to see my enrolled trainings.  

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StephanieAlba
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to kp2592
a month ago

Has this been resolved?

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methasantosa
New Contributor II
a month ago

Hi @Jim_Anderson , last year I joined similar event, and I got 50% discount voucher for any Databricks certification. Am I still eligible to get 50% discount voucher from this event if I complete any learning pathway listed above within Jan 9th 2026 to Jan 31st 2026? 

Thank you!

StephanieAlba
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to methasantosa
a month ago

Yes, you can also participate in this learning festival. 

Jaideepkumar
New Contributor III
a month ago

Hi. Thanks for the another opportunity.

faridganbarli
New Contributor II
a month ago

Hi,

How i can submit my badges to show you the completion of all 4 (for data engineering assoc) subjects?

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to faridganbarli
4 weeks ago

There's no need to submit the badges as evidence 🙂 Upon completion of the event, we'll pull the list of eligible participants who have completed at least one of the learning pathways and email the incentives to the email address associated with each individual's Customer Academy account!

rehansalesforce
New Contributor II
a month ago

Any swags ???

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to rehansalesforce
4 weeks ago

There's no swag for this specific event, but please keep an eye out for swag at future events! 🙂