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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
513 Comments
shilpashree
New Contributor
yesterday

Hi, How will I practice the labs in this self paced ;earning journey. Thanks a lot for your support

 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to shilpashree
6 hours ago

We'll be providing a 20% discount on a Databricks Academy Labs subscription to participants on February 06 if you'd like to practice any of the hands-on labs

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BorisVP
Visitor II
yesterday

Hello @Jim_Anderson 
I am doing some courses, and I can see that some of them are not enable and it makes as in progress and not completed.

Example: The Data Skew session was not enabled:

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Could you please explain it to me?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to BorisVP
6 hours ago

It's enabled, just not completed. You need to review all of the slides within this section for it to be recorded as completed.

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maitrayi
New Contributor II
yesterday

I completed the  "LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING" really excited. Happy about my achievement.  All the 4 modules . 

userashish
Visitor
yesterday

Hi @Jim_Anderson 

I am trying to access the self‑paced courses under Learning Pathway 6: Generative AI Engineering, but my system is not allowing me to enroll. Instead, I receive a notification and get redirected to Partner Academy courses. If I complete the four modules through Partner Academy, will I still be eligible to receive the discount coupons?

 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to userashish
6 hours ago

No, please note this initiative is only open to Customer Academy users.

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pat_miranda
Visitor II
5 hours ago

I completed all 4 modules of the Data Engineer Associate course. The voucher hasn't been sent to my email yet; is it only sent in February?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to pat_miranda
5 hours ago

Yes, as per the post, all emails will be distributed on February 06

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issam_oua
Visitor
5 hours ago

Hello Databricks Community ,
Hello @Jim_Anderson .

I'm currently taking the "Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect" course from the Data Engineer Learning Plan (free self-paced version).

In the demo videos, the instructor references notebooks like "02 - Data Ingestion with CREATE TABLE AS and COPY INTO", but I cannot find where to access these demo notebooks.
Are demo notebooks available for the free version of this course, or only with the Labs subscription?

Thank you!

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ronychowdhury
Visitor II
4 hours ago

Hello @Jim1 , Do we need to complete Quiz from each module (Ex: LEARNING PATHWAY 6:  GENERATIVE AI ENGINEERING) to qualify for the voucher and discount to platform?

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shanmukha_183
New Contributor II
2 hours ago

Hi @Jim_Anderson , I have enrolled the one of the module in one of the learning path before learning festival i.e before 9th Jan 2026. But now I have completed on Jan 21st 2026 . Am I eligible?

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shanmukha_183
New Contributor II
an hour ago

@Jim_Anderson , Why Its showing as empty? Even after completing the one of the module in the one of the learning path.

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Fazil2
New Contributor
21m ago

Hi Jim, 
I have completed all the 4 trainings regarding Databricks certified Data Engineer Associate certificate. How and where to verify it?

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