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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
PabloCSD
Valued Contributor II
In response to vivek_munnaa_d
‎01-14-2026 07:40 AM

@Jim_Anderson answered the following: "Unfortunately this event is exclusively for Customer Academy users."

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to vivek_munnaa_d
‎01-15-2026 02:55 AM

No - please note this is exclusively aimed at Customer Academy users.

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byramnarayan
New Contributor II
‎01-14-2026 05:40 AM

If I complete the Data Analyst Track,
will I be eligible only for the Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate exam voucher?
Or will I receive voucher codes for other exams as well?
Also, what will be the validity period of the voucher code(s)?

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to byramnarayan
‎01-15-2026 02:55 AM

No, to confirm the code can be applied to any Databricks Certification up until 02 May 2026

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SabesanJeyaprak
Visitor II
‎01-14-2026 06:25 AM

Hi Team, I have completed all the 4 modules assigned for professional data engineering. what should be next steps??

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to SabesanJeyaprak
‎01-15-2026 02:56 AM

We'll be distributing all vouchers to eligible participants via email on February 06. This will be sent to email associated with your academy account

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LakshmiRajendra
New Contributor II
‎01-14-2026 06:28 AM

Databricks Connections, Please tell me, from where I can access all the Demo Programs done in the video? for practicing. 

How to get access to Vocareum environment or traning environment in Databricks?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to LakshmiRajendra
‎01-15-2026 02:56 AM

Our hands on labs are available through the Databricks Academy Labs subscription. We'll be providing a 20% discount code on this for all eligible participants in this event on February 06 via email

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dpc
Contributor III
‎01-14-2026 07:10 AM

Will you be doing this again? I've only just found out about it. Thanks

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to dpc
‎01-15-2026 02:57 AM

Yes, we typically run these initiatives every couple of months 🙂 

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poojasalvi-cega
Visitor II
In response to Jim_Anderson
‎02-09-2026 05:35 AM

Hi , I have not yet received the vourcher code even after completing all the 4 modules

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DinahS
New Contributor II
In response to dpc
‎01-15-2026 09:49 AM

dpc - you also still have time to complete this one.  The event only started a week ago, so you still have through the 30th to complete a set of modules.  Even with taking a lot of notes I'm through the 3rd (of 4) in the DE path.  

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Franzante
Visitor II
‎01-14-2026 09:14 AM

Hi, I already taked the courses before this event. How can I reset the course in order to take again and acomplish the requeriment to obtein the 50%?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Franzante
‎01-15-2026 02:57 AM

You cannot reset the course completion. Please complete an alternative learning pathway in order to qualify.

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Sravani1
New Contributor II
‎01-14-2026 11:45 AM
I completed the Data Analytics course in the previous Learning Festival. If I redo it, can I get the discount voucher again? Also, can you please let me know how to access the labs for hands-on experience?
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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Sravani1
‎01-15-2026 02:59 AM

No, please complete a alternative learning pathway to qualify for the incentives.

To confirm, there is no requirement to complete the hands-on labs, but these are available within the Databricks Academy labs subscription. We'll be providing a 20% discount code to all eligible participants on February 06.

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pgopi
New Contributor II
‎01-14-2026 12:05 PM

 Hi @Jim_Anderson,
I’ve just completed the Apache Spark Developer learning plan (all 4 modules). It was very good and useful for real-time scenarios.

 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to pgopi
‎01-15-2026 02:59 AM

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the course! Thanks for participating 🙂 

pgopi
New Contributor II
‎01-14-2026 12:08 PM

 Hi @Jim_Anderson,
I’ve just completed the Apache Spark Developer learning plan (all 4 modules). It was very good and useful for real-time scenarios.

 

Trav555
Visitor II
‎01-14-2026 02:26 PM

Is this automatic? like if i go to databricks learn and finish the modules, does it automatically apply, or must i then fill in some application form?

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