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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
NitishKSharma
Visitor II
In response to NitishKSharma
‎01-29-2026 04:36 AM

Hi Academy Team,

I have completed all 3 modules under "LEARNING PATHWAY 8: DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER" and have obtained and downloaded the complication certificates as well for all 3 modules.
1. Data Warehousing with Databricks
2. SQL Programming and Procedural Logic in Databricks
3. Data Modelling Strategies

But in "My Activities" section it is showing only the first 2 modules, the 3rd module "Data Modelling Strategies" is not reflecting, please assist.

Thanks!

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hariharank_mca
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 05:03 AM

Hi Team,

I have completed LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING. 
Do i need to complete all the remaining to earn the discount

 

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Akash_1100122
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 05:12 AM

Hi @Jim_Anderson 
I have completed all the modules in LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING. 
Kindly share the voucher details on this email id: akashmhaske036@gmail.com

Course completion screenshots:

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Thank you for this great opportunity!
Akash

 

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Gite_Aakash
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 05:34 AM

Hi @Jim_Anderson  I have completed LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING.
looking forward to receive voucher. email_id: giteakash18@gmail.com

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Chiragm001
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 06:00 AM

Hello i have completed LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING.

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amarmol
New Contributor II
‎01-29-2026 06:06 AM

Hi @Jim_Anderson 
I have completed all the modules in LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING. 
Kindly share the voucher details on this email id: marmol.alvin10@gmail.com

Course completion snapshots.

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Thank you for this great opportunity!
Alvin

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koustavroy88
New Contributor II
‎01-29-2026 06:07 AM

Hii i have completed all the 4 courses under Associate data engineering. Now will the get the 50% off bouchers for the databrick ceritification exam. and i want to seat for  "Associate data engineering" certification , are these 4 course enough to pass the exam?   

Kindly share the bouchers in this email: koustavroy88@gmail.com

this is the same with the databrick community account i am using

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Mukundhan
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 06:13 AM

For "LEARNING PATHWAY 6:  GENERATIVE AI ENGINEERING", below learning course is locked with the message "Course is under Maintenance".

Generative AI Solution Development: https://customer-academy.databricks.com/learn/course/2706/generative-ai-solution-development?generat...

I'm unable to complete to get the coupon. Please advise urgently as I have only time until Jan 30th.

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bellsophie
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 06:33 AM

Hello i have completed LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING.

Thank you for this great opportunity!

 

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hakiriha
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 06:50 AM

Have completed all the modules of ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING, lookin forward to certification voucher discount

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Mamadou-DIALLO
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 06:59 AM

Hi

I've finished both Data Engineering Associate and Professional.

Thanks for the courses.

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SahilNagpure
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 07:08 AM

Hi, I have finished all the modules in LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING!!

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Ganeshtpt28
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 07:23 AM

HI, I have finished all the modules in LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING. (ganesh.tpt28@gmail.com)

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asdj
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 07:38 AM

Hi Databricks Team,

I have been getting this error when trying to access the Generative AI Solution Development modules. 
"Access denied
You do not have permission to access this page, please contact your administrator"
It says the course is under maintenance. Will we be able to access it before the learning festival ends.
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benniboi10
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 07:44 AM

Hello, I have a question.

I plan to take the ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING certification, however, i wont seem to be able to finish it by the end of january 30. 

I plan to continue learning and finishing the courses. In between Feb - April.

Once the learning festival on April starts again, will I be able to receive the voucher coupon at the end of April?

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MUL88
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 07:55 AM

Course Completed. Thanks for the great learning & will continue to learn more.

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madmak
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 07:58 AM

completed learning pathway 'LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS' . Please share vouchers for certifications.

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k_chakraborty
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 08:20 AM

Hi, I have finished all the modules in LEARNING PATHWAY 7:  APACHE SPARK DEVELOPER
Looking forward to certification voucher discount on my registered email id.
Please find the attached pdf for the course completion certificates (merged in one pdf).

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youssef_bhj
New Contributor II
‎01-29-2026 08:28 AM

happy to be part of this eventm i finished all 4 modules of ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING! fun learning experience!!

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mdybiec87
Visitor II
‎01-29-2026 08:42 AM

I have finished all the modules in LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING

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