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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
690 Comments
vizaard
New Contributor II
2 weeks ago

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
In response to vizaard
2 weeks ago

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 II
2 weeks ago

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

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Venkatesh_an16
2 weeks ago

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

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darsu144
Visitor II
2 weeks ago

How to access the free training in data brick 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to darsu144
2 weeks ago

Please follow the hyperlinks within the original post 🙂 

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sharma_vishal
New Contributor II
2 weeks ago

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

vishal sharma
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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to sharma_vishal
2 weeks ago

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

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Reddaiah_K
New Contributor II
2 weeks ago

I have completed the one course.

azizaliazure
Visitor II
In response to Reddaiah_K
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks ago

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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to ShirsenduManna
2 weeks ago

No, please ensure you complete one of the alternative learning pathwas by January 30 to qualify for the incentive as part of this event.

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Jaideepkumar
New Contributor III
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks ago

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

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Jaideepkumar
2 weeks ago

It looks like you have a Partner Academy account. Please note, this initiative is exclusively aimed at Customer Academy users.

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cloudnine
New Contributor
2 weeks ago

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

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