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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
384 Comments
TakshakHisaria
Visitor II

how do you track completion of course module

You can verify whether all requisite modules have been completed inside the 'My Transcript' option on the user menu in the top left. 

I could not see a "My Transcript" option - maybe that got renamed?
But,
User menu (the hamburger menu top left)
-> My activities
-> Courses
Lists all your courses, the user status (you want "COMPLETED"), and the COURSE COMPLETION date (you want 9 Jan 2026 - 30 Jan 2026).

Caveat Emptor.


Hi, I'm also following the course, you can see the progress on the "Learning Plan". Per course you have several ''Lessons". Once you have gone through each Lessons that completes a Course and they complete a Learning Plan. Hope this helps.

TicoBoy
Visitor II

Hi Jim,

I completed Learning Pathway 2: Professional Data Engineering last week.
Could you please let me know how we can confirm if we're being considered for the 50% voucher?

Thanks

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

You can verify whether all requisite modules have been completed inside the 'My Transcript' option on the user menu in the top left. Assuming you've completed all of the modules of a learning pathway, you'll be included within the voucher distribution on February 06.

My transcript option not showing for me. Can you please assist on this.

sorry, which user menu? I do not see a "My Transcript" Option anywhere

muhsamy123
New Contributor

Hi @Jim_Anderson, Suppose I get the voucher, Do I have to take the exam before a certain date? If so can u please tell me when?

kariMaDA
New Contributor II

Hi there, I think they said the voucher will expire if you receive it on May 2nd (deadline). Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

 

Srishti_12
Visitor II

how can we access the modules files of associate data engineering

 

From here: https://customer-academy.databricks.com/pages/29/customer-academy-home-page
Next, hit course catalog,then scroll down to the following subcategory to find it among a series of courses:
DB001 [FREE Self-Paced] Databricks Academy - Role-Based/Specialty Learning Path Catalog

i cannot find that

It appears there's no separate path for Associate Data Engineering -Here's the link for a complete Data Engineering that combines the Associate DE & Professional DE: https://customer-academy.databricks.com/learn/learning-plans/10/data-engineer-learning-plan

Matthew_7
New Contributor II

However, if you choose to stick with Associate DE, then follow through with the prescribed courses by Databricks as follows:

Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect
Deploy Workloads with Lakeflow Jobs
Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering

kartheekpaidipa
Visitor II

Do we need to wait till the event completed to get the incentives emailed? or will be shared as soon as the learning path is completed, Incentives will be shared by DB team ?

I am pretty sure they said it will be made available on Feb 6th, but feel free to correct me

Srishti_12
Visitor II

how to access the labs to perform the labs exercise

dinesh1502
Visitor II

Hi. I have completed all the learning paths before the event started. In the course module, it shows that I have already completed them. I also read in the comments that eligibility for the voucher is if the modules are completed during the event window. Is there any solution for my situation? If I retake the course during the event period, will I be eligible for the voucher?

I also completed the entire learning path before the event, totaling 27 completed courses.
Is there any way for me to obtain the voucher?

Henrique Ferreira Santos
Senior Data Engineer | Data Platforms & Lakehouse Architecture
Databricks • Spark • Delta Lake • AWS