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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! 📚🎓🧑‍💻🧑‍

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Starts:
Fri, Jan 9, 2026 04:00 AM PST
Ends:
Sat, Jan 31, 2026 04:00 AM PST
141 Comments

Since this is outside of the eligibility window, you would need to complete one of the other alternative learning pathways between January 9 - 30 to qualify for the incentive.

Completed one of four module yesterday. If I continue the remaining 3 modules from 9 Jan - 30 Jan , am I still eligible for the 50% discount ? Or I need to pick another learning path and complete all of the modules within the period? Thank you

kaixiang
New Contributor II

I am thinking, would retake the test that i completed earlier make me eligible for this event?  Since the condition is to have the completion within the duration. Appreciate advise. Thank you.

sheshyo
New Contributor II

How can I access the notebook examples that are demonstrated in these videos?

I think you need to have vocareum lab access to access notebooks and code shown in demos.

Many thanks for the heads up. I notice that its a paid subscription service, which I'll probably only use for this purpose. That's disappointing. Are there any free alternatives?

 

David Clamp

As of now there isn’t one I think. But if you still want to do the code then they walk through whole code in demos so I think one can do it by themself after code walk through.
But there is another limitation you won’t be able to access dataset used in those labs and demos. 

Dhairya39
New Contributor II

Looking forward to learning !!

stevedantas
New Contributor

Excited to be a part of this journey as a data enthusiast and professional. 

AyubkhanNazar
New Contributor II

Does this apply to the Partner Academy? If not, would it be possible to request a 50% voucher for the Spark certification?

No, to confirm this is only open to Customer Academy users. Please reach out to your Databricks Partner representative for further information on partner certification initiatives.

msanand3
New Contributor II

Can i access all these contents on mobile?

Yes

LinhPham
New Contributor

Can I start the course now and finish it within the event timeframe?

Yes, please feel free to start the courses now. So long as you finish the content during the time period, you'll be eligible for the incentives.

pradnyarn
Visitor II

Do we have to register with some link or from customer academy databricks(https://customer-academy.databricks.com/learn/courses) ? we have to complete courses during above window? also link which you share above for customer academy website is down seems.(showing that currently unavailable)

You can follow the course enrolment links referenced within the table of the original post above to directly enrol into the relevant modules within Customer Academy.

Kamma123
Visitor II

Thank you for this opportunity. Could you please confirm whether the voucher is applicable to any Databricks certification exam, irrespective of the learning path completed?

Yes, to confirm the voucher can be applied to any Databricks Certification, irrespective of the learning pathway completed 🙂 

m_timko
Visitor II

If I take an exam using the 50% discount and do not pass, am I allowed to participate in a future Learning Festival and use another 50% discount to retake the exam?