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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
278 Comments
MadhavJadhav1
Visitor II

How to attend these trainings?

This is self-paced training so you can watch the videos linked in the original post at any time 🙂 

MartinaK
Visitor II

Where can I assign to exam for DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER certification? For all the others pathways I can see the certifications, but not for this one.

We don't currently offer a certification for the Data Warehousing learning pathway

Srinith
New Contributor

If we need 50% discount on Professional Data engineer certification, do we need to complete respective course or can we finish associate data engineer course which gives eligibility to 50% discount on any certification?

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

No, to confirm the vouchers provided can be applied to any Databricks Certification, so in your example, completing the associate data engineering learning pathway would still enable you to take the Professional Data Engineering certification

roopchand1
New Contributor

Hi @Jim_Anderson , i have completed the associate Data engineering Associate learning path of 4 modules.
When can i expect the voucher for exam and will voucher is for Data engineering Associate.

TIA

Thanks for participating! All vouchers will be distributed after the event has concluded on February 06

Pranadot
New Contributor

This learning is going to be fun. Slow and steady though.

BeimnetTefera
New Contributor

For the lab section of the course, what should we do? If we’re using the Databricks Free Edition, do we just watch the labs if we don’t pay the $200 for the lab service?

Advantage with Labs is , Labs assignments and mock data available for your practice and you will receive 20% off voucher for the Labs only after 30th Jan if you complete any Path as mentioned earlier.

In community free edition, assignments and mock up data is not available.

All Incentives will be distributed to the eligible participants on 06 February 2026, after the event has concluded.

Yes, we'll be providing a 20% discount code on a Databricks Academy labs subscription to all participants after the event has concluded if you'd like to gain hands on experience with the labs

irtizak
New Contributor II

If I have already completed a pathway, and I retake it,  do I qualify ?

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

No - please complete an alternative learning pathway

L_A
Visitor II

Hi, Could you please clarify something for me, I am not a databricks customer , if I complete the relevant modules within the customer academy as specified in the announcement will beneficiate from the voucher offer or is this strictly for users who are customers of databricks ? 

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Yes, to confirm the incentives will apply to you as you are a user within Customer Academy rather than Databricks Partner Academy.

bvdinesh
Visitor II

HI, How to open link within documents 

The links within the original post will directly enrol you into the self-paced content within Databricks Academy 🙂 

gvGiri
New Contributor

Are these pdf documents, part of the modules, available for downloads? if yes, how can I download?