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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
1,948 Comments
NitinPTakalkar
Visitor II
In response to Sumit_7
‎01-12-2026 03:55 AM

How many voucher / coupons will be given?

Here if I complete all the following

PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING
PROFESSIONAL ML PRACTITIONERS
GENERATIVE AI ENGINEERING
DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER

 

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rahul_1711
New Contributor II
‎01-11-2026 10:53 PM

Hi @Jim_Anderson , I have completed the course for DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER.

Hope to get the voucher soon! Thanks!

#Databricks

RAHUL SHAH
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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to rahul_1711
‎01-12-2026 12:54 AM

Thanks for participating! I hope you enjoyed the course.

We'll be distributing all incentives on February 06, so keep a look out for an email in your inbox 🙂 

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shubhamdg
Visitor II
‎01-11-2026 11:48 PM

till when this coupon is available, like can i schedule an exam in March when booking in fabric? 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to shubhamdg
‎01-12-2026 12:55 AM

Please leverage the coupons by 02 May 2026.

dchingov
Visitor II
‎01-12-2026 01:36 AM

On one of the courses, I passed the final quiz last week(before 09.01.2026), but marked all components of the course as complete today. Does this scenario count the course as eligible?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to dchingov
‎01-13-2026 02:32 AM

Yes, you can verify this within the My Transcipt dropdown within the user menu in the top left. Provided all modules within the learning pathway display as completed, with at least one module having completed between January 9 - 30

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MadhavJadhav1
Visitor II
‎01-12-2026 02:14 AM

How to attend these trainings?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to MadhavJadhav1
‎01-13-2026 02:33 AM

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

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MartinaK
Databricks Partner
‎01-12-2026 02:17 AM

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.

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to MartinaK
‎01-13-2026 02:33 AM

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

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MartinaK
Databricks Partner
In response to Jim_Anderson
‎01-15-2026 07:08 AM

And will it be accessible in the future? Since in description for this learning pathway is: Eventually, we'll have a certification that goes along with it!

Thank you for your response!

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Srinith
New Contributor II
‎01-12-2026 02:44 AM

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
In response to Srinith
‎01-13-2026 02:34 AM

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

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roopchand1
New Contributor
‎01-12-2026 02:46 AM

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

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to roopchand1
‎01-13-2026 02:35 AM

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

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Pranadot
New Contributor II
‎01-12-2026 03:22 AM

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

BeimnetTefera
New Contributor
‎01-12-2026 04:43 AM

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?

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spotluri456
New Contributor
In response to BeimnetTefera
‎01-12-2026 06:47 PM

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.

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spotluri456
New Contributor
In response to spotluri456
‎01-12-2026 06:49 PM

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

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