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Self-Paced Learning Festival: 09 January - 30 January 2026

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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Start:
Fri, Jan 9, 2026 04:00 AM PST
End:
Sat, Jan 31, 2026 04:00 AM PST
1,940 Comments
Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to prem_gajare
‎01-30-2026 05:36 AM

Congratulations 🙂 

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LearnDbrks
Visitor II
‎01-30-2026 01:47 AM

Hi Jim,

I have just now finished my first course of Associate Data Engineering called "Data Ingestion with Lake Connect".

As today is the last day of the self-paced learning festival, would you be gracious to keep this page and trainings open for the tenure of February as me and my team are getting trained on Databricks in February 2026.

Let me know if this page and trainings will be available in 31 Jan to 28 February,2026 also? 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to LearnDbrks
‎01-30-2026 05:37 AM

Thanks for participating! To confirm, the content will remain freely available after the event has concluded, but we'll only be distributing the incentives to individuals who have completed all modules within at least one of the learning pathways between January 9 - January 30

KeerthanaN
New Contributor II
‎01-30-2026 02:02 AM

Hello! I have finished all 4 modules in LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING. 
Thank you for organizing this event, I enjoyed the content; looking forward to up skill more with DB.

 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to KeerthanaN
‎01-30-2026 05:38 AM

Congratulations and thanks for participating 🙂 

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shewalijain
New Contributor II
‎01-30-2026 02:09 AM

I have completed the course ( ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING And DATA ANALYSTS).

 

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to shewalijain
‎01-30-2026 05:38 AM

Thanks for participating! I hope you enjoyed the course 🙂 

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JQian_
New Contributor II
‎01-30-2026 02:34 AM

Hi, I have completed both modules from the Data Analyst Learning Plan! Thank you for the learning opportunity, I love the demos, and slides, especially the demos explaining tips and step by step very beginner-friendly!

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to JQian_
‎01-30-2026 05:38 AM

Thanks for the feedback! 🙂 

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Adhyatma_Mishra
New Contributor II
‎01-30-2026 02:39 AM

Hello @Jim_Anderson . I have completed the LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING. It was a fantastic course, well articulated and full of learnings. Requesting you to do the needful for the same to get the 50% discount voucher on February 6 to appear the certification. Thank you in advance. 

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Adhyatma_Mishra
‎01-30-2026 05:39 AM

Thanks for participating 🙂 To confirm there is no action required - all eligible learners will be included within the voucher distribution on February 6 automatically 🙂

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eebruno
New Contributor II
‎01-30-2026 02:50 AM

Complete the courses:
Advanced Machine Learning Operations
Machine Learning at Scale

carlo_tacan
New Contributor II
‎01-30-2026 02:52 AM

Thanks! I have completed the LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS.

AbinathS
Visitor II
‎01-30-2026 02:52 AM

Need to Know my status on the completion of the Learning Festival. I have completed the the Data engineer professional learning path but I did not get any notification on that.

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to AbinathS
‎01-30-2026 05:39 AM

You can check on the status of any modules under the 'Courses' option within 'My Activities'. You can access this via the user menu in the top left of Customer Academy 🙂 

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aghang01
New Contributor II
‎01-30-2026 03:19 AM

@Jim_Anderson 

have successfully completed all four modules under Learning Pathway 1: Associate Data Engineering, as per the qualification criteria. The completed modules are:

  1. Data Ingestion with Lake flow Connect

  2. Deploy Workloads with Lake flow Jobs

  3. Build Data Pipelines with Lake flow Declarative Pipelines

  4. DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering As mentioned in the learning plan, completing all four modules makes me eligible for a 50% discount coupon applicable to any Databricks Certification.

I kindly request you to please verify my completion status and proceed with issuing the certification discount coupon at your convenience.

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to aghang01
‎01-30-2026 05:39 AM

You can check on the status of any modules under the 'Courses' option within 'My Activities'. You can access this via the user menu in the top left of Customer Academy 🙂 

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CristopherRL
Visitor II
‎01-30-2026 03:39 AM

The name of the course in this page "Generative AI Solution Development" and the name of the course when I open the link "Building Retrieval Agents On Databricks" don't fit. I dont know if this a mistake 

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vinay_yogeesh
New Contributor II
‎01-30-2026 03:57 AM

Hi, I have finished all modules under LEARNING PATHWAY 4: ASSOCIATE ML PRACTITIONERS within the time of festival. Will I be to use the 50% discount coupons on a track other than the one I have completed (if there are change of plans to pursue a certification)? 

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to vinay_yogeesh
‎01-30-2026 05:42 AM

Yes, please feel free to leverage the discount on any Databricks certification 🙂