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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! 📚🎓🧑‍💻🧑‍

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Starts:
Fri, Jan 9, 2026 04:00 AM PST
Ends:
Sat, Jan 31, 2026 04:00 AM PST
513 Comments
Srishti_12
Visitor II

i have completed module data analyst,where can i find the certificate for the same?

vishnuvreddy
New Contributor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson, I have completed the Learning pathway 2: Professional Data Engineering. Please find the attachment for your reference. Thanks for the opportunity to learn and grow. 

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Thanks for participating! I hope you enjoyed the course. 

Please note there is no requirement to attach any evidence - we’ll be distributing the incentives to all eligible participants on February 06. 

amangujral
New Contributor

Can anyone here help me get about the issue how to get access to customer academy. 
I am facing issue in that. And cannot start learning. 
let me know if anyone can help me out. 

From the following link, hit login under "Customers and Prospects":

https://www.databricks.com/learn/training/login

Akshay_Shah
Visitor II

can you retake course ?  I completed earlier but my coupon was expired.  Can i retake course to get another coupan ?

No, please take an alternative learning pathway during this event to qualify

Sabarishv
New Contributor

Hello Jim,

I have completed 4 modules under ASSOCIATE ML PRACTITIONERS. Am I eligible to opt the voucher? Is there anything else I need to complete.

Thanks,
Sabarish

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Sabarish Venkatesan

Hi Sabarish,

Assuming you completed at least one of theee since January 9 then you’ve met the qualification criteria and will be included in the voucher distribution on Feb 06

Hariiharasudhan
Visitor II

hello @Jim_Anderson , i am trying to login to the customer academy using personal mail id, but i couldn't able to do that

Could you elaborate? If the error is something like “You are not authorised to access Customer Academy” then it’s likely you have a Partner Academy account instead. 

Shravani796
Visitor II

I have completed all the modules of professional Data engineering course. But I dint receive any email or confirmation on completion of the course and eligibility of the offer. Please help me through this

 

 

Hi, Databricks has mentioned following : "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."

So you should be getting an email to your Databricks Academy account on the 6th February.

As per the post, all vouchers will be distributed on Feb 06

sudikshakalepu
New Contributor II

hi @Jim_Anderson,

do we get 90 days from 6 February to sit for the exam before the voucher expires? or do we have to take the exam before 30 January and reimburse 50% using the voucher?

You will need to leverage the discount code provided on Feb 06 to take an examination before May 02

RishavJha
Visitor II

any module is fine right?? and we can do any certification even if it's not aligned with what courses we have accomplished.
Like if we did data analysts one we can go for genai cert. correct ?

Yes, so long as you complete a learning pathway, the discount can be applied to any Databricks Certification exam

Alexander5
Visitor II

Hi, I want to know if I can get vouchers for both Associate data engineer and Gen AI ,post completion of both, or only 1 voucher is eligible for one account. Will complete both courses then .

each participant is limited to one voucher.