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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
321 Comments
Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to germano
Monday

only the elements which are missing 🙂 

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leina
Visitor II
Friday

how can i get the links of the classes?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to leina
Monday

Please note - these are not classes, but self-paced videos. You can access any of them through the hyperlinks in the table of the original post 🙂 

zamaart
New Contributor
Friday

It's free this event?

germano
New Contributor III
In response to zamaart
Friday

Yes, it's. You are going to pay to take the exam, but classes are free.

zamaart
New Contributor
In response to germano
Friday

Thank you so much!

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406597
New Contributor II
Friday

Once the modules are completed, do we need to send an email / screenshot to review our completed activity? Or it would be reviewed automatically after Feb 6?

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to 406597
Monday

It will be reviewed automatically and incentives will be distributed to all eligible participants via the email addresses associated with their Customer Academy accounts 🙂 

psangang
New Contributor
Friday

When trying to start labuser cluster I only see serverless and do not see lab user and where can I get lab content to run those commands? I have registered for free account.

KrishnaS1
New Contributor
In response to psangang
Saturday

hello, how did you start the lab. can u pls tell me. I am taking Data analyst pathway

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psangang
New Contributor
In response to KrishnaS1
Saturday

Even, I was not able too do lab Krishna and thats what im checking or posting questions related to. Even, I need to do lab work.

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to psangang
Monday

There is no formal requirement to complete the labs as part of this event, only the self-paced videos. If you'd like to practice the content within the labs, we'll be providing a 20% discount on the Databricks Academy Labs subscription to all participants on Feb 06.

psangang
New Contributor
In response to Jim_Anderson
yesterday

It doesnt make any sense to have this without access to Lab to be honest Jim. Without hands on whats the point of this pathway.

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to psangang
Monday

Our training content is exclusively available through a Databricks Academy Labs subscription. We'll be providing a 20% discount code to participants after the event has concluded on February 6

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mact35
New Contributor II
Friday

Hi.

I finished the "LEARNING PATHWAY 7:  APACHE SPARK DEVELOPER"

Gowtham_Reddy
New Contributor
Saturday

When I try to click on links provided on the right column. I am getting an error saying

"You are not authorized to access https://customer-academy.databricks.com. Please select a platform you can access from the following list."

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Gowtham_Reddy
Monday

It sounds like you have a Partner Academy account. Please note, Partner Academy is not included within this initiative, therefore please register for a Customer Academy account with an alternate email address.

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paruls21
Visitor II
Saturday

How do we request for the voucher after completion of courses? We would have to fill some form right? else how would we know that we would surely receive the voucher?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to paruls21
Monday

No, we'll monitor eligible completions on the backend of the Academy system. Eligible participants will receive the incentives on February 6 via email. We'll distribute this to the email address associated with your academy account 🙂 

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Amolj
Visitor II
Saturday

Hi,

do we have lab access for practice ? if yes then how ?

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