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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 Harsh2411
‎01-13-2026 10:22 AM

It will be applicable to all users who complete at least one of the learning pathways between January 9 - January 30. It will be distributed to the email address associated with your Academy account on February 06

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wesleyellison
Visitor II
‎01-13-2026 05:56 AM

I have completed the Learning Pathway 1 (see yellow box in screenshot).  Is there any reason why the completed pathway is not badged like the completed pathway from apache spark (see green box in screenshot)

Is the learning pathway 1 complete?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to wesleyellison
‎01-13-2026 10:24 AM

Congratulations! The only reason this is different is because the Data Engineering learning pathway actually includes both the associate and professional level modules. If you were to complete all of the professional modules too, it would also display in the same manner. 

But please note there is no immediate need to do this, providing you completed at least one of the associate modules after January -9, you'll have met the qualification criteria for the incentives.

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Jagadish_P
New Contributor II
‎01-13-2026 07:13 AM

Hi Team,

Please let me know if this 50% discount on Databricks Certification is applicable only to Customer Academy or even the Partner Academy people can benefit from it. 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Jagadish_P
‎01-13-2026 10:25 AM

This event is exclusively aimed at Customer Academy users.

Jagadish_P
New Contributor II
In response to Jim_Anderson
‎01-13-2026 07:50 PM

Thank you for your response Jim

Ashash12
New Contributor II
‎01-13-2026 10:30 AM

 

Hi, I am an individual learner and I not part of org who is Databricks partner. Can you please confirm  Customer Academy account, is   individual learner's account.  Also, is that the vouchers and 20% is given out only on 06 February 2026.? Can't we get it before once the all the modules are completed?

How many vouchers we can claim? is that if we complete more learning path then we can claim more than one voucher for more than one exam?

Please confirm!

Regards, Asha

 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Ashash12
‎01-13-2026 11:57 PM

Hello Asha,

To clarify:

1. This event is for users of Customer Academynot Partner Academy.

2.  All of the incentives will be distributed after the event has concluded on February 6.

3. Each participant is limited to one certification voucher per event, irrespective of whether multiple learning paths are completed during the timeframe.

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joedigeronimo
New Contributor II
‎01-13-2026 10:31 AM

Is it to late to participate?  If it isn't, how do I sign up?

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themahesh
New Contributor II
In response to joedigeronimo
‎01-13-2026 02:32 PM

It's not late, you can still join an complete any one LEARNING PATHWAY.

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to joedigeronimo
‎01-13-2026 11:57 PM

You can follow the enrolment links within the original post 🙂 

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PabloCSD
Valued Contributor II
‎01-13-2026 10:49 AM

Salutations, is there an equivalent for partners?

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Can't access to the elegible courses

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to PabloCSD
‎01-13-2026 11:58 PM

Unfortunately this event is exclusively for Customer Academy users.

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Kalpanas
Visitor II
‎01-13-2026 11:55 AM

where can i check completed tasks?

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zurita86
New Contributor II
In response to Kalpanas
‎01-13-2026 12:22 PM

This is only video access course. If you want to play with databricks take a look on databricks free edition and you can play with your own data.

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Kalpanas
‎01-13-2026 11:59 PM

If you select the 'My Transcripts' option within the user menu in the upper left, you'll be able to confirm that all necessary modules have been logged as completed.

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LaVernW
New Contributor
‎01-13-2026 12:30 PM

I cant access any eligible courses upon login. 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to LaVernW
‎01-14-2026 12:00 AM

Does the error message state "You are unauthorised to access Customer Academy?" If so, then this will be since you have a Partner Academy account. Please note, this event is exclusively for Customer Academy users.

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vizaard
New Contributor II
‎01-13-2026 02:45 PM

Hi Databricks,
The idea of this self-paced learning festival is awesome!

I have 2 questions:
1) Will these courses be available after 30th January? (Of course without being eligible for the discount).
There is a lot of interesting courses, but I won't make all of them before 30th January, so I'd like to continue learing afterwards.

2) Currently, I'm doing the "Data Ingestion with lakeflow Connect" course.
I see that the person who is doing demos uses some notebooks SQL, Python code, etc...
Is this code available somewhere to download and train on my own?
Not only for this particular course but also for other courses?

Thank you,
Bartek

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to vizaard
‎01-14-2026 12:02 AM

Hey Bartek, thanks for sharing! To confirm:

1) Yes, the self-paced courses are free to access at anytime, so please feel free to continue your learning after the event has concluded.

2) If you'd like to get hands on experience with the lab exercises, then we also offer Databricks Academy Labs which provides unlimited access to all of our lab materiel for a year for $200. We'll actually be providing a 20% discount code to all participants within this event on February 06 if you'd like to explore this further.