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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
312 Comments

Hello Asha,

To clarify:

1. This event is for users of Customer Academynot Partner Academy.

2.  All of the incentives will be distributed after the event has concluded on February 6.

3. Each participant is limited to one certification voucher per event, irrespective of whether multiple learning paths are completed during the timeframe.

joedigeronimo
Visitor II

Is it to late to participate?  If it isn't, how do I sign up?

It's not late, you can still join an complete any one LEARNING PATHWAY.

You can follow the enrolment links within the original post 🙂 

PabloCSD
Valued Contributor II

Salutations, is there an equivalent for partners?

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Can't access to the elegible courses

Unfortunately this event is exclusively for Customer Academy users.

Kalpanas
Visitor II

where can i check completed tasks?

This is only video access course. If you want to play with databricks take a look on databricks free edition and you can play with your own data.

If you select the 'My Transcripts' option within the user menu in the upper left, you'll be able to confirm that all necessary modules have been logged as completed.

LaVernW
New Contributor

I cant access any eligible courses upon login. 

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Does the error message state "You are unauthorised to access Customer Academy?" If so, then this will be since you have a Partner Academy account. Please note, this event is exclusively for Customer Academy users.

vizaard
Visitor

Hi Databricks,
The idea of this self-paced learning festival is awesome!

I have 2 questions:
1) Will these courses be available after 30th January? (Of course without being eligible for the discount).
There is a lot of interesting courses, but I won't make all of them before 30th January, so I'd like to continue learing afterwards.

2) Currently, I'm doing the "Data Ingestion with lakeflow Connect" course.
I see that the person who is doing demos uses some notebooks SQL, Python code, etc...
Is this code available somewhere to download and train on my own?
Not only for this particular course but also for other courses?

Thank you,
Bartek

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Hey Bartek, thanks for sharing! To confirm:

1) Yes, the self-paced courses are free to access at anytime, so please feel free to continue your learning after the event has concluded.

2) If you'd like to get hands on experience with the lab exercises, then we also offer Databricks Academy Labs which provides unlimited access to all of our lab materiel for a year for $200. We'll actually be providing a 20% discount code to all participants within this event on February 06 if you'd like to explore this further.

Venkatesh_an16
Visitor

Please complete both modules from the Data Analyst Learning Plan. Where can I find

Both modules are hyperlinked within the table of the original post 🙂 

darsu144
Visitor

How to access the free training in data brick 

Please follow the hyperlinks within the original post 🙂 

sharma_vishal
New Contributor II

Quick question :If I have already completed one module not in the mentioned window, do I need to retake it?

vishal sharma

Hi Vishal - to confirm, you just need to complete the remaining modules from the learning pathway before January 30 to qualify.

Reddaiah_K
Visitor

I have completed the one course.