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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
384 Comments
Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to SabesanJeyaprak
Thursday

We'll be distributing all vouchers to eligible participants via email on February 06. This will be sent to email associated with your academy account

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LakshmiRajendra
Visitor II
Wednesday

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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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to LakshmiRajendra
Thursday

Our hands on labs are available through the Databricks Academy Labs subscription. We'll be providing a 20% discount code on this for all eligible participants in this event on February 06 via email

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dpc
Contributor
Wednesday

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

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to dpc
Thursday

Yes, we typically run these initiatives every couple of months 🙂 

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DinahS
New Contributor II
In response to dpc
Thursday

dpc - you also still have time to complete this one.  The event only started a week ago, so you still have through the 30th to complete a set of modules.  Even with taking a lot of notes I'm through the 3rd (of 4) in the DE path.  

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Franzante
Visitor II
Wednesday

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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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Franzante
Thursday

You cannot reset the course completion. Please complete an alternative learning pathway in order to qualify.

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Sravani1
New Contributor II
Wednesday
I completed the Data Analytics course in the previous Learning Festival. If I redo it, can I get the discount voucher again? Also, can you please let me know how to access the labs for hands-on experience?
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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Sravani1
Thursday

No, please complete a alternative learning pathway to qualify for the incentives.

To confirm, there is no requirement to complete the hands-on labs, but these are available within the Databricks Academy labs subscription. We'll be providing a 20% discount code to all eligible participants on February 06.

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pgopi
New Contributor II
Wednesday

 Hi @Jim_Anderson,
I’ve just completed the Apache Spark Developer learning plan (all 4 modules). It was very good and useful for real-time scenarios.

 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to pgopi
Thursday

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the course! Thanks for participating 🙂 

pgopi
New Contributor II
Wednesday

 Hi @Jim_Anderson,
I’ve just completed the Apache Spark Developer learning plan (all 4 modules). It was very good and useful for real-time scenarios.

 

Trav555
Visitor II
Wednesday

Is this automatic? like if i go to databricks learn and finish the modules, does it automatically apply, or must i then fill in some application form?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Trav555
Thursday

Yes, to confirm you'll automatically qualify if you complete all of the modules within one of the listed learning pathways before January 30 - no additional application form required 🙂 

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Koti_Baddam
New Contributor
Wednesday

Getting started

 

maitrayi
Visitor II
Wednesday

 I have started last week. but can someone tell me how do I know that I have been registered for this festival? I don't want to miss the discount because I missed some steps. please help

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to maitrayi
Thursday

Inside academy, if you click on the My Transcript option under the user menu in the top left, you can check which modules are logged as completed to ensure a learning pathway has been fully completed by January 30

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AstonL831
New Contributor III
Wednesday

I just finished LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING. 

janssen135
New Contributor
Thursday

Hi, I am trying to register for the exam, but the price is still the same even though I have already completed all four modules and received the email notification confirming that I finished the learning path (example: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING)

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