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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
315 Comments
azizaliazure
Visitor
In response to Reddaiah_K
10 hours ago

@Reddaiah_K  during course did you do  any lab .If yes how to connect to lab profile.share the steps

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to azizaliazure
10 hours ago

To reiterate, there is no requirement to complete the labs for the self-paced learning pathways. If you would like to, then please feel free to leverage the Databricks Academy Labs subscription to do so (but please note, we'll distribute a 20% discount code for this to eligible participants after the event has concluded, on February 06).

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PawanDubey2026
Visitor II
yesterday

Can we get this slides also it is very brief but a good preparation material for interview.can we download it

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to PawanDubey2026
10 hours ago

Unfortunately we don't offer downloadable content, but you'll always be able to access the latest version of the self-paced content through Databricks Customer Academy 🙂 

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ShirsenduManna
Visitor II
7 hours ago

Hi Databricks team,

Nice initiative! New learner can show their credibility through these certifications with the added discounts. I have query I already completed Associate Data Engineering on the month of October 2025. Do I eligible for this event. Please clarify.

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Jaideepkumar
New Contributor III
7 hours ago

Hi , 

When trying to login from learning festival portal, getting below error. 

Jaideepkumar_0-1768391438941.png

can you please help to resolve this issue?

Note: We are using our partner login, its working fine with individual account.

Doubt: If we take using individual account, will that be consider for taking exams in partner login. 

apuskarcik
New Contributor
In response to Jaideepkumar
6 hours ago

I have exactly the same issue. Already dropped a message to Jim Anderson.

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PabloCSD
Valued Contributor II
In response to Jaideepkumar
3 hours ago

@Jim_Anderson answered the following: "Unfortunately this event is exclusively for Customer Academy users."

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cloudnine
New Contributor
5 hours ago

Is this open to Databricks Partners as my Partner login isn't working - just keep getting "Service is Unavailable"

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vivek_munnaa_d
New Contributor II
5 hours ago

Will learners from partner academies receive coupons if we complete one of these learning paths?

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PabloCSD
Valued Contributor II
In response to vivek_munnaa_d
3 hours ago

@Jim_Anderson answered the following: "Unfortunately this event is exclusively for Customer Academy users."

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byramnarayan
New Contributor
5 hours ago

If I complete the Data Analyst Track,
will I be eligible only for the Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate exam voucher?
Or will I receive voucher codes for other exams as well?
Also, what will be the validity period of the voucher code(s)?

SabesanJeyaprak
Visitor
4 hours ago

Hi Team, I have completed all the 4 modules assigned for professional data engineering. what should be next steps??

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LakshmiRajendra
Visitor II
4 hours ago

Databricks Connections, Please tell me, from where I can access all the Demo Programs done in the video? for practicing. 

How to get access to Vocareum environment or traning environment in Databricks?

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dpc
Contributor
3 hours ago

Will you be doing this again? I've only just found out about it. Thanks

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Franzante
Visitor II
an hour ago

Hi, I already taked the courses before this event. How can I reset the course in order to take again and acomplish the requeriment to obtein the 50%?

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